Should Barcelona Fire Almeida???

Almeida y Barcelona

Q bueno es el tecnico Almeida? I saw the games when he was in El Nacional and I dont like his style. Today he spoke of how upset he was that Hurtado has permission to come late to preseason practice. I remember he made a big deal about kaviedes and quiroz having international games. I hope he does not make issues considering that Barcelona's players are basically mainly made up of national players.

 

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Hurtado is a fool to leave a squad who was going to play La Libertadores,with a good chance to make it very far in the tournament.To play for barcelona para nada mas disputar el campeonato ecuatoriano.Que gil es ese man!

 

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Hurtado has played plenty copa libertadores, the guy is old and needs to make as much money as possible before he retires.

Almeida has always played "El Pelotazo" in El Nacional, but never had many technically gifted players either as he does have now in Barcelona.

It will be interesting to see what he can do.

 

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Hurtado already has money coming out his azz,but it would have been nice to watch him play for Ath.Nacional.
I have never seen Almeida's team play al pelotazo,in fact los equipos del man siempre an tenido buen trato del balon.
And the "gifted players" you are talking about,he already coached them,,like I said before el barcelche looks more like El Nacho.
And ecuadors evil empire is already falling apart,,,Jorge Guagua,,,primera baja!

 

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Guagua is out 6 weeks, el campeonato is still 4 weeks aways, so he wont be out more than 2 - 4 games.
I would hardly call that falling apart. That is also a reason Barcelona got so many players, if Guagua is out then Castro can step right in.

El Nacional has never had "buen trato del Balon" under almeida.

Of course almeida has had many gifted players like Valencia, Benitez, Castillo or Lara.

But you can't compare their "Technique" with a player such as Chelo Delgado.

And nothing wrong with getting many players from a same team, if anything it will help that they have played together before, you might be too young to remeber that Barcelona did the same in the 80s and 90s with Filanbanco and Valdez.

 

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If you say so,but at least the games I've watched Nacional play under Almeida,I have not seen juegos de pelotazos.Chelo Delgado is a hell of a baller,so is Zarate,,but their game is not what is used to be,like 5 years ago in Boca and Velez repectivamente.Estos ballers have been around the seven seas and they come to Ecuador a dejar lo "poquito" que les queda.Hopefully todo les salgan bien,cause look at how many great "estrellas" an llegado a barceleche and have never performed up to their expectations y se van "estrellados" con billete.
And don't forget who you to talk to buddy,"i'm to young to remember Filanbanco and Valdez FC" hahaha,,,of course I remember these clubs,,,Filanbanco was practically the barceleche squad who was vice campeon de la Libertadores in 1990.My boys David"cholo" Bravo,Julio Guzman,Robert Macias played their.I play against Cholo Bravo when I go to vacation in Ecuador,I played along side Guzman when I almost went pro with el Green Cross,and Robert Macias is one of my drinking buddies.Also de ese equipo salieron Wilson Macias,Jimmy Izquerido(RIP) and Freddy Bravo(who I also meet)Raul Aviles,Luis Capurro and others I can't recall at this time.As for el Valdez,thats where El Tanque Hurtado was discovered and a good friend of mine Ruperto Olives played for them as well.In my closet I still have the warm up suit he used for las concentraciones,el man me la regalo.

 

Hello, before any comments are posted let me just make clear That I am a die-hard barcelonista and 4 year old club member and that I love this team more than I love un ceviche mixto y una pilsener. but I can't help but start worrying about this team, today was our 4th game we barely won against Macara a team that was one point away from going to second division last year.we know for sure the players are top notch, here in Ecuador people are going to the stadium and giving support. I know that this is a new team but man! at least if they show some ray of hope in their game but other than Sessa,Castro, Ivan Hurtado Quiroz and Palacios. this team is not showing anything. I mean come on this is the year that we are supposed to win the championship, qualify to sudamericana and libertadores but going with what we've seen I dont think we can make it to Liguilla. as you all know coaches are always the easiest blaming option so Let me get your opinions SHOULD ALMEIDA GET FIRED!!!

 

I don't think so. But I am worried though just as you are... but then again .. this is a completely different team and the guys need to get used to each other...

 

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YES!!!!!!!!!!

I hate almeida. he seems like such a sell out. get someone new with some experience outside ecuador

 

Look If the case was that the team seems unfamiliar with each other but if at least there was a base I would be a lot more relaxed, But Almeida doesn't seem to have a clue of what his starting team is supposed to be, I mean why can't he do a simple formation like 4-4-2 but NO!!!, He's gotta try his 3-4-1-2 I mean WHAT ARE WE FREAKING REAL MADRID???, also wasn't he clear when he said the if he was to coach barcelona that he MUST have Castro, De Jesus, Hidalgo and Quiroz, well god damn! why isn't he playing half of those guys, ahhrggh what can i say? I don't like the guy.

 

The tourney hasn't even started yet and people are already calling for his head. Let the team get a chance to play together and little by little it will become obvious which the starting 11 should be.

Just because there are 11 quality players on the field does not mean that Barcelona is beyond the building phase. It's going to take time. Whoever expected this to come together like magic after 4 friendlies should stop living in La-la land.

I am worried too, but the building process is far from over! The blocks are all there, now they just have to see how they an make them fit!

 

I'm just afraid that by the time Almeida finds the way to play and start winning we are going to be 6th or 7th place and 8-9 points behind the leaders, which already happened to us with the Bernuncio-Cubilla mess, when the team finally started playing better the apertura was almost over.

 

Thats why this has to be looong term. I don't want to see them build a team that can win a few games at the beginning and then make it in the top 3 but a team that can be solid enough that will be a contender for the next 4 years.

 

Yes that would be nice, but I don't know if you are aware that Barcelona didn't buy all these players as a matter of fact A lot of them are loans, for example Zura is a six month Loan, Castro, Quiroz are loans with a purchase option, Lara is also a loan, Palacios and F. Hidalgo only have a one year contract same as Guagua. and Chelo Delgado's contract expires in mid-2008. thats why I would really like for the coaching team to take advantage of the team they have Now! I mean didn't Fossatti make Liga win his first apertura when he had 11 new players? Let's be honest Almeida has a team that any coach in Ecuador can onlydream of having, and they look crappy.

 

I am sure you have seen many teams that on paper, look like the winning 11. It's going to take more than just the players and their reputations. Almeida will have the fortune of working with big named players, but he also has the misfortune of working with big named players...now it is mostly a matter of seeing how he can control their egos and put them to good use. So far, it hasn't happened. Technically skilled, they are, but let's see who is in charge and is able to make them work at 110%.

Also, it's great that a lot of them are on loan. Think about it...when 2 or 3 or even more of them just fail, we won't be stuck with them on our hands. I guarantee you half of these punks will be going home halfway down the season. It is by then, to the very least, I'd prefer much much sooner, that Almeida should have an idea of knows who the untouchable starting line up is!!!!!!!!!

 

Well. I just finished watching the Barcelona-Manta firts half as if watching iy trough Teleamazonas isn't bad enough we playing like crap again although there's some improvement specially in defense also Chelo Delgado finally came in and he looks great.

 

The reason why barceleche didn't look like Real Madrid,Chelsea,or Boca Jrs,was because El Manta,had a very decent squad.
So far it was the best examinador(besides the colombian squad) they had so far,and member they could have lost this game if it wasn't for the penalty kicks they missed.
I still wonder how the hell El Manta,with that game didn't get promoted to la serie A,,WTF
Hopefully this year!

 

I think almeaida wasn't da best opcion because that guy loves to play the ofside trap...n he fukn plays carlos hidalgo..that guy sux...I'd rather see alex bolanos even tho he might get a red card...n he should play mike rodriguez his da best juvenile they have...n I rather see edmundo zura instead of danny vera...

 

carlos hidalgo esta jugando en un excelente nivel.

 

You probably mixing up the hidalgos....know fernando is a good all around player...of the best in the friendlys...

 

Actually Carlos Hidalgo is playing better, as a matter of fact the whole team is, they had a Really good second half against Tecnico Universitario, anyway we are still loooong way from where we want to be, But Almeida keeps on making ridiculous decisions, [playing quinones a 15 year old kid over mike rodrigues], I also agree that we should be seeing more of Zura.