“Colombia returns to Ecuador, where it was defeated 6-1 last time (…) The memory of the last visit of the Colombian team to Quito to meet Ecuador in the World Cup qualifiers is not the most pleasant,” the newspaper admits New centuryfrom Bogotá, related to the match of the fourth term of the qualifying cycle for the 2026 World Cup this Tuesday, connecting this match with one of the biggest tragedies of football with coffee in the pre-World Cup, which happened on November 17, 2020.

This Monday newspaper The viewer, also from the northern capital, could not escape the memory of the scandalous result. In its note entitled ‘Ghosts of Quito scare Colombia’, the newspaper points out that ‘the national team is preparing to play against Ecuador in the fourth round of qualification. The record against La Tri at home does not favor the Colombians.”

You can read this: “In recent days there has been a lot of talk about the ghosts of Quito. These are the hours before the match between Colombia and Ecuador for the fourth date of the road to the World Cup 2026. From 6-1, the disaster of Carlos Queiroz and, of course, the back-to-back debacle of frustrated qualification for the World Cup in Qatar 2022. They talk about it, because the past is terrible. “

“Football disaster”

When the ball kicks off, 1064 days (2 years and 11 months) will have passed since Ecuador’s biggest victory in the qualifiers. On its portal, the magazine Week gives another take on the beating coffee farmers have received halfway around the world in a note titled: ‘These are the Colombian national team repeating against Ecuador after a disastrous 6-1’.

The publication says: “Among the worst defeats suffered by Colombia are the Copa América 9-1 to Argentina in 1945, with Brazil 9-0 in 1957. In the qualifiers, Chile 7-2 in 1965, Brazil 6-0 in 1977 and of course the one that helped the team miss out on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. It took place at the Rodrigo Paz Delgado Stadium in Quito, Ecuador, and Carlos Queiroz, the coach at the time, named 24 players for dates three and four of the South American qualifiers. There was no Falcao, and as a novelty there is the return of Edwin Cardona.”

And then he comes, inside Week, the number of those who were part of that defeated team and who are now part of the process commanded by Nésor Lorenzo. “Among those called up from that football disaster are several who are also on Lorenzo’s list for the so-called revenge in 2023. Among the aforementioned goalkeepers, both technicians called up Camilo Vargas and Álvaro Montero who were at Deportes Tolima in 2020. The difference is that this time Vargas was sent off against Uruguay, and at the last moment the Argentine coach called José Luis Chunga from DIM.”

Starters and substitutes in 6-1

Furthermore, “from the defensive zone they repeat Davinson Sánchez and Frank Fabra, who did not have a good game in their possession with Uruguay on October 12. Fabra, along with Wilmar Barrios, lost the ball for Charrú’s second goal. The player from Zenit from St. Petersburg and Matheus Uribe are today in the first line of midfield, as 6-1.”

And at the end, it is reported that “later there are James Rodríguez again, the author of the penalty kick on that bitter afternoon on November 17, 2020, and Luis Fernando Díaz.

Refers Week: “These were the starters and substitutes in 6-1: Camilo Vargas; Luis Orejuela (Luis Muriel), Davinson Sánchez, Jeison Murillo, Johan Mojica (Frank Fabra); Matheus Uribe (Wilmar Barrios), Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Jefferson Lerma (Edwin Cardona); James Rodríguez, Luis Díaz (Luis Suárez) and Duván Zapata.” (D)