Enner Valencia has been the best and most important striker in Ecuador for a decade. There is no substitute in the national team, and there is no attacking partner at his level. And despite the fact that the Tricolor usually combines streaks of significant scoring frequency with streaks of striking drought – as happened in all the warm-ups for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2021 Copa América – Esmeralda is a man-goal team.

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The hierarchy of the striker who made his debut in the first division with Emelec in 2010 is confirmed by an incredible statistical record in the history of La Tri: 40 goals scored. Enner did not lose a favorable time for the national team, as far as the number of official and friendly matches is concerned, that his offensive power does not come into question. In 79 appearances, plus counting, Enner is Ecuador’s top scorer and his record will continue to grow.

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The previous Saturday and last Tuesday night, Valencia legend Ennera added goals to Bolivia (1-0) and Costa Rica (3-1) against each team in friendlies played in New Jersey and Philadelphia, respectively, according to FIFA date. The new striker of Inter Porto Alegre has scored 40 goals in the national team jersey. The counting started ten years ago.

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Novice to score

Reinaldo Rueda made his debut for the Tricolor on February 29, 2012. It was in a friendly match against Honduras played at Enner’s home, the Capwell Stadium (he lived there for a long time when he arrived from Esmeraldas, until he turned professional). Valencia came on in the 81st minute for Jefferson Montero, and Jaime Ayoví scored the double in a 2-0 win.

In thirteen games in a row, between friendly and official, Rueda forgot about the electric footballer, until he called him back at the end of 2013 (in August). Enner’s list of goals for the national team began that year. On November 19, 2013, at Compass Stadium in Houston, the United States, Ecuador and Honduras were tied at 2. In the 58th minute, Cali’s Rueda ordered Enner to replace Fidel Martínez.

EL UNIVERSO reported that “Enner Valencia, on duty, scored a superb goal to draw Ecuador 2-2 with Honduras, in the final friendly of this year’s build-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.”

That night the Three lined up like this: Máximo Banguera; Jorge Guagua, Frickson Erazo, Juan Paredes; Walter Ayoví, Renato Ibarra (Christian Ramírez, 82), Cristhian Noboa, Fidel Martínez (Enner Valencia, 58), Segundo Castillo (Fernando Gaibor, 74), Antonio Valencia (Joao Rojas, 46), Jaime Ayoví. How many of those footballers are still active in the national team?

all goals

According to the statistics of the specialized site portable market, Enner played 32 friendly matches with the national team, 27 qualifying matches, 14 in the Copa América and 6 for the FIFA World Cup (79 in total). And his 40 conversions are divided as follows: 20 in the preparatory matches, nine for the Conmebol qualifying tournament, and in the Copa América and the World Cup he has five and six, respectively.

As for friendly matches, 16 countries conceded goals Superman Valencia, several of them on more than one occasion. The list is as follows in this type of conflict: El Salvador (three goals), Trinidad and Tobago (two), Qatar (one pair), Bolivia (double), Honduras, Australia, Mexico, England, Bolivia, United States, Jamaica, Guatemala, Peru , Panama, Venezuela and Costa Rica.

In pre-World Cup tournaments, both against Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, Enner scored nine goals against five South American teams: Bolivia (four goals), Venezuela (two), Paraguay, Peru and Argentina. At the Copa América, his five goals were shared against Bolivia, Mexico (2015 edition), Peru, Haiti (2016) and Japan 2019.

more victims

There are half a dozen of them at the World Cup. Three in Brazil in 2014 against Switzerland and Honduras (double) and three in Qatar in 2022 against the hosts (two goals) and the Netherlands.

It was the Bolivians who suffered the most from Enner’s goalscoring rage, with six goals in total (four in the match against Conmebol). Then there’s Qatar, with four (two of them World Cup), and Honduras with a triple (a pair at the World Cup).

Enner doubled, in the same game, against Qatar (twice), Bolivia (twice), Honduras, El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago. The Ecuadorian fined a total of 22 teams. (D)