Arkaitz Mota plunges into Ecuador’s adventure

Artaitz Mota has opted for the Independiente del Valle de Ecuador after a very busy summer managing various avenues to channel his future as scouting while resting with his family in the San Ignacio neighborhood of Bilbao. A globetrotter who continues to chart his way on any continent. Now he crosses the pond to settle in the city of Sangolquí, near the capital, Quito, as his chief scout at a club that was champion of the 2019 South American Conmebol, runner-up of the 2016 Copa Libertadores, of the 2013 Ecuadorian Championship. IDV is now the leader of the Ecuadorian First Division after the four-game league match, with four victories, ahead of Emelec and Guayaquil City. “It is a very attractive project, the club is like a family and also a benchmark in Ecuador,” Mota himself tells El Correo from his destination in South America. “I wanted a new adventure, it means a new adventure to grow up,” he concludes.

Arkaitz Mota, 39, is a technician with a brilliant resume. He has worked for Barça (2002-6), at Aspire Africa Fútbol Dreams (2007-8), Real Madrid (2008-14) and since 2014 in the circle of Aspire Kas Eupen, until now since his last destination in Senegal, where he lived 24 hours for and with football as a passion that he savors every second. “I’m already going around the country seeing Ecuadorian boys for the first team and for training,” slides the pizpireto ‘scouting’ from Bilbao, eager to draw his roadmap in the IDV. In Bizkaia, Mota had trained, in the beginning, in clubs such as Romo, Getxo, SD Leioa and Urduliz, where he was promoted to Preferente before going to Qatar and traveling half the planet in recruitment and training tasks, combining the base as in the First Division. He began his journey with the rolling suitcase thanks to the push of the Biscayan Football Federation and the Basque Federation, through a scholarship with which he landed in the French town of Clairefontaine. There, the new contacts enabled him to arrive at the La Masía factory. Its sports director, Josep Colomer, went to Aspire, Qatar, and captured him in a row to join the exciting project of Fútbol Dreams.

In Senegal, he had settled for the last three years in Saly, near Dakar, after his time at Eupen in Belgium, as well as the Dreams Soccer Academy, where he trained African players before his final leap to Europe. Through his hands have passed the last generations of projects of players born from 2002 to 2005 in his performance of discovering talents throughout the map of Africa. Footballers in training from the Ivory Coast, Mali, Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon. After five years at Barça and in Africa since 2007, Independiente del Valle, Ecuador in general, represents a new challenge in America for Arkaitz Mota, another concept of professional football in a country to be exploited, sandwiched between the football of Colombia and Peru. that seeks to catapult itself on the international scene.