Although Ecuador already reached the round of 16 of the World Cup in 2006, now they want to think big. A change in mentality due, above all, to the success of Independiente del Valle, a training club with a prodigious rise. Against the Netherlands, the ‘Tri’ can even see the round of 16 again. Eurosport reviews the importance of the club in the Ecuadorian national team. “When I arrived, he told me: ‘Miguel, we need help. I think we can do things much better.’ I wanted Independiente del Valle to become one of the world’s best training centres, ” tells us the Spanish coach, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, head of training from 2018 to 2019, then coach of the first team from 2019 to 2020.
La Nueva España
14 July 2023
