Pacheco, OUT!

By: Dave Martinez | September 14th, 2009

Who saw this coming?

RBR is reporting that Red Bull are terminating the loan deal for Alfredo Pacheco effective immediately. In a season full of unbelievable situations, this one proves to be just more frosting on the cake. Pacheco followed the route of other Osorio signings before him, showing displays of brilliance in the middle of mind boggling mistakes. Heralded as the best young player in El Salvador as recently as last season, Pacheco fell far short of expectations, and has received an unceremonious axing for his efforts.

My impressions of Pacheco can be summarized like this; he was a talented kid from a tiny village in El Salvador, entering the concrete jungle of New York City and the American lifestyle, and like many others that have found themselves in the same situation, he choked. I remember being in Times Square, and he was leaning up against the glass at the ESPNZone, just gazing at the outside. I asked him what he thought of the big city, and he simply looked outside, almost distracted, and said “It is amazing what man has created.” As I continued to ask him a few questions, he kept gazing outwards. Some people just can’t adapt to such a drastic change.

Compound that change in environment with Coach Osorio’s continuously changing playbook, and a youngster can get lost pretty quickly, regardless of the talent. Pacheco follows a long line of failed Osorio acquisitions, including Khano Smith, Juan Pietravallo, Gabriel Cichero, Oscar Echeverry and others.

What are your thoughts on this failed experiment? Did they pull the trigger too quickly on this move? Or was it only a matter of time? Share your thoughts!

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Carlos

I also agree with kofix5 in regards to Johnson. That guy has talent. If he's gotten red carded alot it's because of the ridiculous reffing in this league. WTF was he carded for on Saturady?! The fact that no KC player was is a joke.
Carlos

Wow. I guess I'm in the minortiy here. I thought the guy had no heart and wasn't that good. His free kicks and crosses were bad. He went up to attack and never came back to defend leaving us extremely vulnerable to counters on his side. Carlos De Los Cobos didn't start him in WCQ games not because of inactivity, they're not Brazil, if you have a good player you play him no matter what if you have a limited talent pool. He just isn't playing well. Borman might not be as talented but he works hard and plays the position as well as Pacheco did.
kofix5

Pacheco is a really good player. He should not have been let go so easily but its possible he'd rather be in El Salvador anyway. Osorio's coaching stunk so bad, I think it affected Pacheco's perfomance in games. I saw him go from looking for a target to lay his cross on to just kicking it down field without caring what happened. Not a great trait its true but that's what you get with bad coaching. I think Richie could use him but if the kid's not fired up to play here anymore then let him go.

BTW---Carlos Johnson is a very effective right back who has attacking power, solid skill on the ball on turf, and has a great cross. His skills on turf are better than anyone else on the field. He is quality.

Anyone who thinks he gets a red card every game probably thinks Cepero will score another goal.
ish

why did they let him go? well let's see, after osorio he had zero playing time, and it also meant he was loosing playing time with the national team due to inactivity. he deserved better than this, and frankly i am pissed. i, as a salvadorean realize he could have done better, but there is far worse players on this team that should of been gone a long time ago. he decided to leave because he realized all this,this was anounced a week ago in el salvador by the way, it was bound to happen.
RobStyles

Of all the JCO signings he was the only one released prematurely. I think there was some potential for him to succeed but for whatever reason RNBY did not feel the same way. We know the dude can play as seen in some of his performances for El Salv. It's difficult to get a true gauge on a player who played in the chaotic system JCO was implementing the past year, maybe with some consistency he might have been able to shine some more.
Onoda

and the RBNY curse continues...
Tommy Wong

IMO a bit more faith, time, and patience was needed with Pacheco. When the ability is there you shouldn't give up on it.
mike.

"Did they pull the trigger too quickly on this move? Or was it only a matter of time?"

A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. :(
Loso

It's sad for these things to happen. I think he is a good player, except that he did not adapt to the environment as quickly as people expected. I think if he is given more time the next coming season he would do much better. I wish him good luck!
mike from linden

good move, next ubiparopovic? Rojas? Krupnik? Wasnt Pacheco like 28? hows that young? thats young for a keeper, not a out field player
pat

bad move getting rid of him...he was the only good attacking left back we have, johnson is always red carded and hall just doesnt provide the same service. pacheco could also whip in good crosses and free kicks, why is Rojas not gone?? I mean talk about utter failure. Pacheco just needed a little time to adjust and this is the best possible season to do so because his mistakes frankly dont cost the team anything as the season is already long gone
ALDONOVA

I think he was a pretty good player.He did fall off a little since he hasn't strated for El Salvador in their qualifiers but he was a really good player better than Jpohnson who always gets a red card for some reason.But their are other good salvadorean players on the national team that are good like Quintanilla who played for DC,Monetes the goalie and Castillo.But oh well maybe he can sign to another team.Good kid though.