When Pacho helps his team-mates shine, Dina-Ebimbe pays tribute

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·19 October 2025

When Pacho helps his team-mates shine, Dina-Ebimbe pays tribute

In an interview with L’Équipe, Éric Junior Dina-Ebimbe, a former Paris Saint-Germain youth player now at Eintracht Frankfurt, paid a heartfelt tribute to Willian Pacho (24 years old), an Ecuadorian defender who played for the German club. The former Parisian highlights the player's natural leadership, a rare profile capable of making an entire team shine.

Dina-Ebimbe: "When he's there, he immediately establishes leadership"

"He's the same Pacho I knew at Eintracht (in 2023-2024). When he's there, he immediately establishes leadership. Not through words because he doesn't speak much, but through what he exudes. He has vision, quality passing, he knows how to defend over 50 or 60 meters, and the challenges he puts in behind... With him, you know the match will go well, there are fewer doubts, he enhances others. And he's someone who can play 50 matches in a season with the same performance. In Frankfurt, our captain Robin Koch can thank him. If he became a German international, it's because they formed a great duo."

Dina-Ebimbe's words reflect a reality that many coaches have observed: Willian Pacho doesn't need to speak loudly to lead. His strength is this quiet authority, built on game reading and consistency. At only 24 years old, he exudes a calmness that structures an entire defensive block. In Frankfurt, his partnership with Robin Koch transformed the defense into a mobile fortress, with the German even earning his place in the national team, proving that Pacho elevates those around him. This leadership by example, based on regularity and silent confidence, evokes the profiles of great modern defenders: understated, precise, and indispensable to the stability of a collective project.