The Ecuadorian national football team This Thursday marks 100 days without a technical director and without an interim coaching staff to – until this date – take charge of the team for the two matches on the FIFA date in March against Australia.

Argentinian Gustavo Alfaro The contract ran until 29 November 2022, after the Tricolori were eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar, and in January 2023 he failed to reach an agreement with the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) to extend the contract or constitute a new one for the World Cup qualifying round in 2026

Guillermo Almada and his agent are attentive to the movement in Ecuador

Alfaro, in addition, plans to sue FEF before FIFA if they don’t pay the “million dollar debt”.

The World Cup team reaches a hundred days today without even an interim coach who gives way to micro-cycle planning and who can personally block players from foreign teams for friendlies arranged in Sydney and Melbourne on March 24 and 28.

Ricardo Gareca, who was an option for the Ecuador coach, is already coaching Vélez Sarsfield

Other national teams such as Brazil and Uruguay, while CBF and WOW define the successors of Tite, that is, Diego Alonso, have appointed a temporary coach for the next matches of the FIFA date.

Ramón Menezes will take over Verdeamarela and Marcelo Broli de la Celeste.

Except, Venezuela was also left without a DT due to the departure of José Néstor Pékerman.

Egas misses his calculation

“I would estimate that by the end of the month we should already have a professional staff, and certainly at the beginning of March we have to block foreign players for the term, which, as I already announced, will be two games. (with Australia),” Egas told reporters on February 15.

The leader of Ecuafútbol confidently conveyed that a replacement for Gustavo Alfaro will be defined by the end of February and that in the first days of this month the new professional staff must take office and work on blocking potential invitations to travel to Oceania. .

The boss of the FEF was wrong in his calculation and the national team celebrates one hundred days this Thursday with an empty bench and many unknowns.

It looks like the qualification round for the 2026 World Cup will start in Septemberwhich means that Ecuador and other Conmebol teams will have an additional FIFA date to check the level of their teams before the curtain rises on the South American World Cup.

Currently, Brazil and Uruguay are already taking advantage of La Tri because they have appointed temporary technical bodies and they are people who know football well in their countries.

Probably, the Ecuadorian federation gave up negotiations with the Argentine Ricardo Garec, who revealed contacts and “deals” based on the contract that finally, in the first days of March, went in the other direction and Tiger He eventually signed for Vélez Sarsfield.

Namely, Izbor only has the names of the options until this Thursday, and not concrete candidates for takeover. And there is a new one on the list: Félix Sánchez Bas, the Spaniard who led Qatar to the 2022 World Cup and who was the rival of the Ecuadorians in Group A.

Who are Albert Celades and José Bordalás, the alternatives FEF is considering if Ricardo Gareca does not arrive

With Sánchez promoting the Argentine press (journal ole), the options increase to nine, taking into account the Spaniards Alberto Celades, José Bordalás, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, the Uruguayan Guillermo Almada, the Argentines Sebastián Beccacece and Martín Anselmi, the Portuguese Paulo Bento and the Paraguayan Francisco Arce.

Another Albiceleste and current coach of San Lorenzo de Almagro, Rubén Darío Insúa, has been ruled out as a possibility.

Since this is the case with the Ecuadorian Football Federation managed by Francisco Egas, this hundred-day period for the national team without a coach is second only to the 167-day cycle that the FEF needed to hire the successor of Hernán Daría Gómez, Filed in the administration of Carlos Villacis.

The return of the Colombian became official on 1 August 2018, with Villacís having just five months left as FEF boss. He Roll He was fired on July 30, 2019, and the new FEF management (that of Egas) hired the Dutch Hispanic Jordi Cruyff on January 13, 2020.

On July 23, 192 days after the presentation, Ecuafútbol confirmed the end of Jordi’s unproductive era. The son of the legendary Johan Cruyff did not even direct during training sessions.

34 days passed from Cruyff’s departure to the announcement of Gustavo Alfaro’s engagement. The Argentine was unveiled on August 26, 2020 in a virtual press conference and was due to make his debut just over a month after the start of the Qatar 2022 qualifying round.

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