Luis Fernando Espinel Lalama (born 30 June 1967) is an Ecuadorian football

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and former player. He is the current manager of Búhos ULVR.

Coaching career

Born in

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, Espinel was

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's assistant at the Ecuador national team, the Ecuador under-20 national team and El Nacional before being named manager of Imbabura in the

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in October 2012. He left the post nearly one month later, however. Espinel was in charge of

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during the 2013 campaign, and was appointed manager of

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in January 2014. He left the club in April, and returned to Imbabura in November for the last three rounds of the season; he narrowly avoided relegation with the club, and left in December 2015 after a comfortable mid-table finish. Named at the helm of

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for the 2016 campaign, Espinel left the club in August. He was presented as manager of Mushuc Runa in January 2017, but left in June to return to Imbabura for a third spell. On 26 March 2018, Espinel was appointed Clan Juvenil manager. He left the club just before the end of the season, and was named in charge of

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side

América de Quito Club Deportivo América, commonly known as América de Quito, is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. A top-level club in Ecuador for decades, they were relegated to the second division in 1988 and later to the country's third-tier Segunda C ...

in May 2019; he resigned from the latter club in September. In 2020, Espinel took over

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side

Cumbayá Cumbayá is a rural parish of the Metropolitan District of Quito in the Pichincha Province, Ecuador. It is located east of Quito, in the Tumbaco Valley northwest of the Ilaló volcano, in the San Pedro River valley, a tributary of the Guayllabam ...

and led them to the second division. He was named at the helm of

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also in the second level in March 2021, but left the club to take the reins Olmedo in the top tier on 5 August.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Espinel, Luis 1967 births Living people Footballers from Quito Ecuadorian men's footballers L.D.U. Quito footballers C.D. Universidad Católica del Ecuador footballers Ecuadorian football managers LDU Portoviejo managers C.S.D. Macará managers S.D. Quito managers C.D. Olmedo managers Men's association football players not categorized by position Cumbayá F.C. managers Mushuc Runa S.C. managers