Ten years ago, in 2013, Emelec set an impressive record of eight straight wins (in as many games), establishing the best start by a team in the national championship. Those led by Gustavo Quinteros beat Macará (3-0), Universidad Católica (0-4), Deportivo Cuenca (3-1), Liga de Quito (1-2), El Nacional (2-1), D. Quevedo ( 0-1), Manta (1-0) and Loja league (1-2).

Electricians secured the beginning of 2013 with 24 points, winning first place in the initial phase of the tournament. A decade after setting that milestone, today’s blue reality, led by Miguel Rondelli, is poor in terms of results, performance and ranking.

Emelec is in tenth place and they barely won six points, out of 15 possible, when a third of the first stage of the Liga Pro competition was spent (that is, five out of fifteen days). They have more defeats than victories, because they did not tie in the aforementioned section.

Declare Rescalva

Despite this unfortunate sporting panorama, since individually and collectively Emelec does not perform in the domestic tournament or in the Copa Sudamericana, Rondelli seems like a cloned version of Rescalvo, when it comes to making statements. Water is up to the throat, everything is viewed from the perspective of the calmness of the coach, with little first league experience.

Regarding Sunday’s 2-1 defeat against Aucas in Quito, the Argentine said: “It’s not something that has left me worried.” From mid-table down (Delfín, Gualaceo, Cumbayá, Técnico Universitario and Orense are better positioned) DT commented at the press conference: “We are improving and that is the way.” And although his coaches play worse each time, Rondelli, à la Rescalvo, gives this explanation: “We are progressing and that is the way”.

Even, considering the interruption of training by the decision of the team he commands, as a sign of support for Dixon Arroyo, who asked the management for two months’ salary; and complaints that he did not invite the midfielder to the meetings with Delfín in Portoviejo and Danubio in Montevideo, an angry Rodelli asks that all this, along with the separation of Arroyo, be experienced by journalists and fans as something normal.

“There is a lot of nonsense being said. Don’t see ghosts where there aren’t any,” complained the coach. Is it because you are inexperienced in the struggles of running a big, popular, demanding club that creates pressure? From the lower leagues of Vélez Sarsfieda, Rondelli went to the bench of Universidad Católica, Quito, an entity with few fans, and then to Emelec, a club where he has positive and negative influence that Rondelli has not experienced as a coach in his country or in Ecuador.

The worst, in fourteen years

Rondelli’s reality is different from the one shown, for example, by some figures. In the five rounds of the 2023 national championship, Emelec lost three games (2-1 to Orense, 3-2 to Delfín and 2-1 to Aucas), and the victories were against recently promoted Libertad from Loja (2-0). ) and with anxiety over Técnico Universitario (1-0), both in Guayaquil.

In five days, this 2023 is the worst start to the season for the millionaires since 2009. That year, in the same period of the tournament in Ecuador, Emelec also lost three times, won once and tied another time. With seven recovery dates (22, instead of 15), the Blues finished 2009 as the leaders at the opening of the championship.

In the last campaigns, Emelec did not experience three defeats in five presentations (two in 2022, 2020 and 2019; one in 2021, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2010; and no lost matches in 2014 and 2013 ., in five days). (D)