As the leadership of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) analyzes different profiles of coaches to find someone to take over the management of the national team, Argentinean Martín Anselmi, the coach of Independiente del Valle, revealed that he feels “qualified” to lead the Tricolore.

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After failed negotiations with Albiceleste coach Ricardo Tiger Gareca, the 37-year-old Anselmi, ran as an option between the Uruguayan Guillermo Almada (in charge of Pachuca) and the Argentines Sebastián Beccacece (without a team) and Rubén Daría Insúa (in charge of San Lorenzo).

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“In Independiente del Valle, we as a professional staff showed the ambition and competitiveness to fight with the biggest teams on the continent. And from that side, of course we feel authorized to lead the national team,” commented DT from Independiente to He Football channel.

According to Anselmi: “For now, I don’t see myself leading the national team, but the Ecuadorian team, because of the layers of players that are coming, yes; for those guys I trained and know and, moreover, that feeling that you know you can”.

Iván Hurtado, the former captain of La Tri, believes that Paúl Vélez and Guillermo Almada are good options to lead the national team and by the way points out: “If they offer it to me, I will gladly do it”

“I feel there is a very important group of players coming to the next World Cup with the experience of Qatar 2022 at the top, plus all the guys coming up now who are already competing at the elite level. It seems to me that it is time for Ecuador to kick in,” he pointed out.

The Argentine confirmed his fine moment as a manager this week by winning the South American Super Cup against Flamengo, the most popular team in Brazil. After leveling at 1 on aggregate, they won a penalty shootout 4-5 against Fla at the mythical Maracana Stadium, the country’s soccer cathedral I play nice.

Before lifting this Conmebol trophy, the team from the Sangolquí Valley, with Anselmi on the bench, won the 2022 Copa Sudamericana with a 2-0 win against Brazil’s São Paulo, in the only final played in Córdoba (Argentina).

At the local level, the gauchos won the Ecuadorian Cup in 2022, and as the champion of that tournament this season he played for the Supercup title, a competition which he won with a 3-0 victory against Aucas, the current national monarch. (D)