“This man never gets tired of showing that he is the best coach in Mexico; He entered the Azteca stadium with a team (Pachuca) full of young people and made America dance in front of more than 46,000 Azulcremas fans”, points out the portal PB Deportes Guillermo Almada, referring to the most impressive result of the tenth day of the Champions League. Clausura tournament 2023, with Uruguayan DT in charge: América 0, Pachuca 3.

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it is written in the newspaper Record, about Saturday night’s game, states that “Tuzos coach (Almada) took a measure against Azulcremas.” What Guillermo Almada says about the fatherhood of America: nothing special is mentioned. AND millennium emphasizes that “Pachuca feasts and beats America with the Aztecs. The Tuzos put an end to the unbeaten record of the Eagles for more than a year at the Coloso de Santa Úrsula”.

Pachuca, from DT Guillermo Almada, hit América three times at Azteca Stadium for the Mx League

And at the moment when Almada is the most praised coach in the MX League, the Ecuadorian Football Association is trying to convince him to accept the position of coach of the national team, after the first option, Ricardo Gareca, agreed to be the helmsman of Vélez Sarsfield, from Buenos Aires.

“I feel qualified to lead the Ecuadorian team,” says the Independiente del Valle coach

César Luis Merlo, a journalist specializing in the pass market, who announced that Gustavo Alfaro will not renew his contract with FEF, hours before the body announced, published this Sunday the status of talks between Almada and the leaders of Ecuafútbol.

The former coach of Barcelona SC is today the main option to take over the leadership of the Tricolor. This was confirmed by Mario Canessa on the radio last Friday Caravanfinding that Francisco Egas had authorized him to give his name as the source who had given this information about the Uruguayan.

This was announced by Merlo: “The FEF has been in contact with the environment of Guillermo Almada to make him DT of Ecuador, but the negotiations are very far in the economic aspect.” The federation would have a salary cap hit of $2.5 million a year to settle on Alfaro’s successor. But on the horizon, in relation to the coach who qualified for Qatar 2022, there is the possibility of a lawsuit for non-payment of various items (Ecuafútbol talks about a debt of $290,000, but Alfaro’s lawyers mention ten times the amount and a possible claim before FIFA) .

rotary libero, from Lima, also reports on Almada’s option for Ecuador: “Everything indicates that FEF and Almada are in the first phase of negotiations.” And for Merlo, “The Uruguayan is focused on his work in Pachuca.”

Almadina’s salary

How much do you earn per year in Pachuca? According to various media reports in the Aztec country, the salary of the Uruguayan was 1.7 million dollars per year until April 2022. However, that information was leaked before Almada – a champion with Barcelona SC in 2016 and a Copa Libertadores semi-finalist in 2017 with Guayaquil – won the Apertura de México tournament crown, with Pachuca, in October 2022.

At the press conference after the victory over América, Almada did not refer to Ecuador because there were no questions on that topic. What the Uruguayan was talking about was the Mexico national team, regretting that Pachuca’s Eduardo López was not part of Diego Cocca’s first call-up. Nothing is mentioned in the press of the northern country regarding Almada’s dialogue with FEF officials. (D)