Ecuador coach Rueda is unlikely hero in two nations


QUITO (Reuters) - Reinaldo Rueda became a national hero in Honduras when he led them to the 2010 World Cup and has repeated the trick four years later with Ecuador.

Like Hernan Dario Gomez and Luis Fernando Suarez, the coaches who led Ecuador at their only two previous World Cup appearances, the softly spoken and youthful-looking 57-year-old is from neighbouring Colombia.

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