Without a coach since the departure of Gustavo Alfaro at the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where his team fell in the last match of the group stage to Senegal and failed to qualify for the round of 16, the Ecuadorian team could have a new coaching staff from Europe in the next twelve days .

Speaking to the local press, the president Ecuadorian Football Association (FEF), Francisco Egashe confirmed the contacts between the subject and Ricardo Gareca, who seems to be the favorite candidate to lead Tri. Although there is no official or unofficial agreement between Tiger and National selection the interest and conversations are real.

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Egas has left a certain deadline to announce what the new DT will be from Ecuador: “We want to make a decision before the month of March, and thus announce who will be the new DT of the Ecuadorian team”. The current post remains vacant despite the announcement a double date of friendlies that Tri will play in Oceania against Australia.

Speaking to reporters a few days later, Egas added that Ecuador should already have a coaching staff in action in March to face the tests with Australia.

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“I would estimate that by the end of the month we should already have a professional staff, and certainly by the beginning of March we must already block foreign players for the term, which, as I already announced, will be two games. “, he said on Wednesday.

If Gareca does not finally reach an agreement with FEF, Egas announced that there is a ‘plan B’ with two names on the table: “We have two alternatives for position, both They are currently training in Europe and speak Spanish.”confirmed the president about the candidates who are examining whether the former technical director of Peru does not finally accept the proposal of the FEF.

According to his statements according to mark 90 last January 28 Egas does not “exclude names” and accepts that there are “several folders on the table”, among them those of professionals such as Albert Celades, with the passage through smaller teams in Spain and part of the technical bodies of Real Madrid and Valencia, as well as Jose Bordalas, with an important period of five years in charge of Getafe and a season in Valencia.

“I’m not ruling out names because It would be wrong to represent the truth and in some way mislead as if we already have one or another candidate elected, or some other rejected ones. Those names (of the Spanish) have reached the Federation and we have them on the table,” said the director of Ecuafútbol.

Another DT currently training in Europe is a Spaniard Miguel Angel Ramirez, the driver of Real Sporting de Gijón in the second division. Ramírez was the coach who led Independiente del Valle to the 2019 Copa Sudamericana title.

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