Since the departure of the coach was confirmed Reinaldo Wheel from the bank of the Colombia selection Different rumors have come out linking foreign coaches with the ‘Tricolor’ bench.
One of the names that has sounded the most is that of the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, current coach of the Ecuadorian national team and who will be at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Everything gained momentum following the Ecuadorian journalist José Freire Gutiérrez, director of Ecuagol and EcuagolTV, stated on his Twitter account that Alfaro is the first candidate that the Colombian Football Federation has to replace Rueda.
“The World Cup ends and Gustavo Alfaro will no longer be DT of the Ecuadorian National Team. He became the first option to be the coach of Colombia, there have been conversations, but he hasn’t signed yet out of respect for the ‘Tri’. He asked to complete the World Cup to formalize, ”wrote the communicator.
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Although the president of the FCF, Ramón Jesurúm, had already denied the apparent contacts with the Argentine coachhe himself broke the silence and referred to his alleged separation from the Ecuadorian team.
“I saw a couple of publications in the Ecuadorian media that I was leaving following the World Cup and they linked me with another team. I say they don’t know me, this is going to be the biggest challenge of my life. There is nothing else that concerns me at the moment other than Ecuador. There is nothing else that generates more adrenaline in me than doing the best World Cup in the history of Ecuador, ”he explained in a interview with TyC Sports.
He also confirmed that at the moment he has not received a call from any other team, so it is not true that he is negotiating a new contract.
“The reality is that I am the coach of Ecuador and the reality is that they did not offer me the renewal of the position. No team called me to work following the World Cup. If any team or National Team called me, I would not answer it because that would divert me from the objective of preparing a team to try to play the best possible World Cup”, he reiterated.
Here, his words compiled by the official Twitter account of the Ecuadorian team:
???? #GustavoAlfaro: “We made a commitment to the players to make the best World Cup in the history of Ecuador!”
???? The DT of #LaTri He maintains that there is nothing else that occupies his mind and planning at this time.#TogetherACatar???????? pic.twitter.com/oNoJri97ks
– La Tri ???????? (@LaTri) April 22, 2022