A coach in the making the first option to take over the Ecuadorian team in 2023Argentinian Ricardo Garecahe revealed the guidelines of the work he carried out during his time as technical director of Peru (2015-2022).

Gareca said on February 14 in the program The F-Team from ESPN that they are attacking players of the Peruvian team He promptly told them to take care of creativity in the last meters, and leave the tactical order to him.

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He agreed with striker Paolo Guerreroone of the managers of the locker room and the group’s referees.

“In Peru, for example, there was a time when I asked the team and the striker ‘how do you feel more comfortable?’ and Paolo (Guerrero) was a singer at the time. ‘Leave the attacking part to us, let us create. So I agreed with them. I said: ‘Okay, but the full-backs have to attack. I like that the wingers attack. So you have the initiative and you have creativity in the last meters, I have to see that after that, what you see, I have to see that it is reflected in the video on the field'”, he commented in ESPN.

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“In other words, ‘if I let you (you have freedom) and you have creativity, I have to make sure that the team arrives, that the team generates situations for a goal, I have to see that the team materializes’, because if I agree and then something happens completely different on the field and there are no situations to score goals, no creativity, no things, so no,” he added Tiger.

“But since it was and as I noticed such a type (of response) from them, then (I said): ‘You take care of this, leave the tactical order to me’because when the ball is lost, the team must have a tactical order, yes or no, because if they don’t succeed, that’s where the problems begin,” he stressed.

In the same sense, the man from Tapiales (Buenos Aires province) pointed out that the player has a leading role and is very important. “I like to listen to the player, but that’s my trait. There are coaches who don’t listen to the player and say ‘do what I say’. I like to listen to that because I have to agree with the player to see what we will do on the field. consensus”.

After the confirmation of that day in ESPN their discussions with the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) on February 17 in Argentina reported that the former coach of Peru and the FEF already have an agreement on the sporting aspect.

The same journalist who wrote on January 12 about the discontinuity of Gustavo Alfaro at the head of the Ecuadorian team, Argentinian César Luis Merlo, an expert on the transfer market in Latin America, assured that Gareca “advanced in negotiations to become the new coach of Ecuador.”

“There is already an agreement on the sporting aspect and the FEF is negotiating with a lawyer Tiger economic aspects. A definition is expected next week (this week)”announced Merlo on his Twitter.

He TigerThe 65-year-old has been without a team since June 2022, after his contract with the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) expired. He decided to retire during his time as DT of the Peruvian team after being eliminated against Australia in the play-off for a ticket to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

He led the Inca team since 2015, went to the World Cup in Russia 2018 with the duo and qualified them to the finals of Copa América Brazil 2019.

Watch Ricardo Gareca’s full conversation with the panel here The F-Team from ESPN:

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