Brain drain, players preferring to try their luck outside of Guayaquil and managerial lapses

Valley Independent it has become a machine for selling talent. It is often said that the best training school in Ecuador right now is that of ‘Rayadosa’, the one that creates talent or country house (Elementary School of FC Barcelona) of national football. Other visions do not agree with the concept, specifically the sports leaders of the Guayaquil clubs, despite recognizing that the IDV operating model is successful and has overshadowed them since 2010. However, from the Main Port they warn against “brain drain” of its lower categories against top economic proposals which tempt them and their parents.

The term escape was not coined by any Ecuadorian entity, but is used by Spanish sports newspapers to publish cases of local players who easily left for clubs outside their territory, for example England.

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the newspaper The world of sportsfrom Barcelona, ​​reported in January 2014 that football club Barcelona filed a lawsuit against the father of the Ecuadorian youth team Josimar Aldair Quintero to agree with him Chelsea his establishment as a minor.

Two years earlier, in the same media, he announced that Quintero had become the heir Antonio Valencia Being “one of the biggest promises of the quarry… as a wing!”. “He was born in Guayaquil (Ecuador) on February 3, 1997, but he made his first touches with the ball at the age of five in the Catalan region of El Maresme. From a very, very young age, he excelled at Santvicentí, at Sant Vicenç de Montalto, and at the age of eight, Josep Gombau, now the reigning Hong Kong League champion as coach of Kitchee, took him to Barça to join Benjamin B, the note says.

Quintero would end up signing a contract with Chelsea on July 11, 2014, at the age of 17. Today this practice is not possible according to Regulation of the Statute on the transfer of players (RETJ) from FIFA, which entered into force with the aim of preserving transparency and accountability in the global transmission system.

This is how minors are protected for the first time, which in Article 19 of the RETJ states that international transfers of players are not allowed. under 18 years old.

Cases in Guayaquil

Kendry Paez and Gonzalo Plata some phase of their life was lived in Alfaro Moreno Academywhich was managed by Carlos Alejandro Alfaro Moreno until 2015 and became Barcelona SC a four-year contract to begin with.

The new gem of Ecuadorian football was in the Academy until he was 11 years old, silver from under 7 until he joined the Independiente del Valle news program in 2012. Other cases are also known, such as the goalkeeper Moises Ramirezwho was part of the team from 2012 to 2015 Bullfighters FCbranch office Barcelona SC, and is currently the starter in the ‘black and blue’ arc; or that of Moises Caicedo, which started in the formative part Sports club Espoli and then at the age of 13 he went to Independiente.

“I first started in Alfaro Moreno. (Academy) Alfaro Moreno became Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​I became (of) Barcelona,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Kendry in the program Football without tapesin November 2022.

Captain of the U-17 national team, which just finished as runner-up South American Conmebol Sub-17 2023is associated with transfer to Chelsea by the agreement between the ‘Blues’ and Independiente del Valle, which was approved by the English Football Association (The Football Association, FA) and the Premier League.

Exodus or flight of players?

Emelec experienced an important period in its formative divisions in the 2010s, not forgetting that it debuted in the first division three years before Angel Mena, one of his last idols, and currently plays for Mexican León. In 2010, under the technical guidance of Jorge Sampaoli, riosense made its debut Fernando Gaibor and an emerald Enner Valencia. Both of them came to the blue club for a trial and asserted themselves in training.

Likewise, there were talents in Emelec’s possessions who were considered promising and did not even reach the U-20 or reserve category. Of course, there were talents who, upon coming to the trial, stayed until they finished all phases of the training base, the rest of the youngsters reached the blue ranks and were quickly recruited by other clubs.

One of them was an emerald billy maple, who started at Club La Paz in Manabita (2008), and who, before entering Emelec’s book (2012), was a member of Gloria Saltos FC (2009 and 2010), according to FEF records. In 2013, he went to Independiente del Valle, and this club transferred him to the English Brighton & Hove Albion (2018) without a fee for training the blue institution.

Emelec also preserves the memory of the Guayaquil attackers José Yepito Nazarene, born in 1997; and Eber Caicedoborn in 1991, who joined the entrepreneur project from the group of up to 20 Michel Deller at Independent of the Valley. Buenos Aires midfielder Eddy Corozo (1994) was also on the radar of those from Valle, but the electrical board convinced him to extend his contract because he was already 18 years old at the time.

‘It’s illegal’

“In the formative stages it is illegal to remove players from other clubs, but which formation are we talking about? FIFA condemns it, it is forbidden,” said a source who wished to remain anonymous and was linked to the Bombillo leadership.

The consulted source confirms that it is not appropriate to refer to Article 19 of FIFA’s Regulations on the Transfer of Players (RETJ) at this time as it is not a transfer but a recruitment. “It is not receiving transferred players, but their association in the formative phase when they are in another club without association,” he emphasizes.

The feeling that reigns in Barcelona SC is also worrying because in recent months its new pearls, Allen Obando and Ivan AkuriU-17 national team members, received invitations from scouts offer them money. For this reason, they claim that in Ecuador clubs also engage in practices that encourage the escape of underage players. is that Rules for players of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) don’t make light of the matter.

“I don’t want to single anyone out, but Obando and Acurio were invited to offer money to them and their parents. Under these circumstances, they initiate the conflict”, reveals Canarian President Carlos Alfaro Moreno.

Obando came to Guayaquil when he was 10 years old, from his native Esmeraldas, when he was preparing at the Barcelona SC football school under the guidance of Peter Angulo. Already associated with the bullfighting club, he came to live and study in the city on a scholarship.

‘The codes between the clubs have been lost’

“Last year they called him and wanted to take him away. The good thing about this is that from this administration, retroactively, every player who leaves or has to leave with the signature of the report of the Technical Secretariat of the training department, the signature of the coach, the director of training and the president; So those filters, if the player is a gem, don’t pass. We don’t pass any gem,” said Carlos Alfaro Moreno.

Meanwhile, Acurio was contacted this year when he was already training with the first team coached by Fabián Bustos. The 16-year-old striker from Rios played 27 games in 2022, 22 as a starter and 5 as a substitute in the Barcelona SC training team. He scored 36 goals and registered 3 assists.

As Kendry Paez, Alfaro Moreno clarifies that the midfielder was in the Alfaro Moreno academy in the training process at the age of 8 and 9, but did not go to the discipline of Barcelona SC because he had to be federalized before. He was not united by the Academy or Barcelona SC, he explains.

In this context of brain drain, be Alfaro Moreno emphasizes that in recent years the codes between the clubs have been lost. “We, because we are Barcelona SC, if we are going to steal a player from the club, they point us out. We came out on the first cover”, notes the manager.

There is no doubt that Independiente del Valle is a giant talent recruiter and a club that knows how to negotiate very well with foreign countries. If the new ‘blue-black’ pearl Kendry Paezbehind him in Chillo Jijón is already emerging Justin Lerma Soliz, promising class of 2008. With the position of a midfielder, he will certainly give something to talk about in 2023. He was accepted by Independiente del Valle in 2019, after passing tests, according to what he says in an interview with youtuber spanish A wise manager.

For many followers of Emelec and Barcelona SC, it can be difficult to understand the decision of a young player who prefers to leave the institution, although there are several reasons that support his decision.

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