While the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) meets the deadline for hiring a new technical director and his staff Looking ahead to the FIFA dates in March, former national team coach, Gustavo Alfaro is thinking about suing the FEF before FIFA if they don’t pay the “million dollar debt” him and the professional staff with whom he worked in the Tricolor command from October 2020 to November 2022.

This was assured by journalist César Merlo this Monday Alfaro hinted at FEF “So that they pay him a million dollar debt that includes back wages and bonuses for him and his coaching staff.” “If they don’t do it, a lawsuit will follow in FIFA”indicates the Argentinian communicator via Twitter.

From the environment of technicians, this is ensured that claims an amount greater than two million dollars.

Legally, Gustavo Alfaro would claim more than 2 million USD from the FEF

Gustavo Alfaro has ‘decided not to continue’ as Ecuador coach. These would be the reasons

At the FEF congress held on January 31 it was discovered that the portion of the debt held by Alfaro and the coaching staff is $290,000a version that is far from the claim that the Argentine would make.

your president, Francisco Egas has admitted that the entity owes him his November salary, prizes for the Qatar 2022 World Cup and qualification in the March 2022 qualifying round.

“We owe him the salary for November, which we wanted to pay him in January, but he demands other things,” said Egas to The world of sports February 12.

“He (Alfaro) to think about other things that do not fit in our opinion; For this reason, the question, if it has to go to legal, well, it will go to legal. We defend our resources, the Federation’s money and what belongs to football in the country. That’s all,” said the host.

Despite the outstanding debt and the consequences it could have in the management of the Federation, Egas pointed out that “we have already turned the page” in terms of sports.and that the directory is focused on the search for a new captain of the Selection, a process for which he estimated that before the end of the month Tri should already have a DT and staff associate in functions with regard to the March international date for the two friendlies arranged with Australia.

“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. (with Australia)”, Egas pointed out.

As Egas himself announced to the press, Ecuador will meet Australia in two friendly matches in March on the date of FIFA. The matches will be played in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney.

“We have been invited by Football Australia and we will be playing them in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney on FIFA Day in March, so we hope to have the coaching staff already in place,” the FEF director added.

But an Argentine Ricardo Garecawho has emerged as the main letter to sign with the FEF during this month, would now be in the plans of the Vélez Sarsfield club.

According to a sports newspaper report olefrom Buenos Aires, Gareca is the first choice of Vélez who already directed between 2009 and 2013.

“After the announced departure of (Alexander) Medina this Saturday, the club’s technical secretariat set to work with the intention of bringing back Gareca (who has a formal offer from Ecuador), although they know it will not be an easy task. Sebastián Beccacece and Eduardo Domínguez are other names heard in the last few hours, in case Tiger reject the offer,” reads the message from ole

The Ecuadorian national football team will be without a technical director for three months because the contract between Alfaro and his team of collaborators with the FEF was fulfilled on November 29.

According to journalist César Merlo in a tweet, the “millions in debt” that FEF maintains with Alfaro “was the key point that made DT decide not to continue” in Ecuador.

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