Jorge Célico will be the next technical director of Barcelona Sporting Club, after the departure of Fabián Bustos to the Brazilian Santosassured this Saturday night Flor Alfaro Moreno, a journalist from GolTVduring the broadcast of the match between the Canary Islands and University Technician for the LigaPro Serie A, information confirmed by this newspaper.
Célico, South American champion with the Ecuadorian U-20 team in Chile 2019, the same year he won the bronze medal at the World Cup in Poland, will assume command of the main team of the Canarian club on Sunday, whose president is former striker Carlos Alfaro Brown. The presentation will be Monday at noon.
The former coach of El Nacional and the Catholic University of Quito, 57, he was in office at the Ecuadorian Football Federation as head of the youth divisions.
Célico joins Barcelona with a contract until December 2023.
After the game with the Red Roller this Saturday, the bullfighting team will visit Lima to collide with Universitario de Deportes on Wednesday in the second leg of their Copa Libertadores phase 2 series. (D)