(Videos) The victories of the Tri were by World Cup qualifiers; the auriverdes have a victory in a friendly and in an official game.
Ecuador will play a match on Thursday whose result could qualify it for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. The rival, complicated, is one of the teams that have already secured their presence in the highest FIFA tournament for a long time: the linajudo Brazil, undefeated leader of the tie. The combined five-time world champion will be presented at the height of Quito, where he won by a landslide in his previous pre-world match against the Tricolor.
It was at the altitude where Ecuador obtained its first official victory over the Brazilians, in 2001, after 59 years of clashes between the two. But in Quito —where the National Team supposedly “doesn’t play well anymore, because most of those summoned play for foreign clubs”, because “memory of height has been lost”, according to the thesis of a majority of sports journalism (but the height It didn’t bother anyone when Gustavo Alfaro’s team thrashed Uruguay 4-2 and Colombia 6-1 at the start of the tie)—the Auriverdes have also won by wide markers.
6-0, in 1981
Brazil’s first away result against Ecuador came in a friendly match played on February 14, 1981, at the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium. It was a preparation game for the qualifiers for the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
A double by Reinaldo (24 and 35 minutes), another by Sócrates (28 and 81 minutes), an own goal by John Landeta (48) and a goal by Zico (65) gave Brazil coach Tele Santana a bulky 6-0 win.
La Tri lined up with Freddy Valdivieso; Flavio Perlaza, John Landetta, Luis Corrales, Ernesto Mesías; Carlos Torres Garcés, Belford Parraga, José Villafuerte; Mario Tenorio, Gorki Revelo, Juan Madruñero. Then Luis Augusto Granda, Lupo Quiñónez, José Valencia and Vinicio Ron entered. After that beating, the FEF dismissed coach Otto Vieira, who lasted only three duels.
Brazil I put a constellation of stars: Valdir Peres (Marola); Edevaldo, Óscar, Luizinho (Edinho), Junior (Pedrinho); Socrates, Toninho Cerezo (Renato), Zico (Pita); Tita, Reinaldo, Eder.
Newspaper EL UNIVERSO reviewed the landslide like this: “We thought that the time when they made half a dozen of our football had been overcome. Unfortunately, that did not happen and Ecuador continues to be the target on which the darts of the foreign teams crash”. It was added that “with everything that had been done in national football, we hoped that the improvement could be seen against the three-time world champions.”
The goal of Believe Delgado
In the qualifiers for the 2002 Japan-South Korea World Cup, one of Ecuador’s most resounding triumphs was obtained on March 28, 2001, at the Atahualpa Olympic. It was the remembered 1-0 against Brazil. The Tricolor led by the Colombian Hernán Darío Gómez finished the event with the historic World Cup qualification of Ecuador, the first for national football. That result, noisily celebrated, also represented the first victory of the National Team over the team from the country of samba.
EL UNIVERSO published that “Agustin Delgado’s goal was not the only good thing that Ecuador achieved. The national team also had soccer. Touch, delivery, claw and team play. For this action he won the ‘ole, ole’, of the fans who from different parts of the country and the continent came to Quito just to watch the eliminatory match heading to Korea-Japan”. It was also highlighted that during the meeting “Álex Aguinaga’s claw, in the middle. The desire of Iván Kaviedes, in the attack. Agustín Delgado’s desire to win and the impetus of the entire local team made us dream”.
Roll he sent José Francisco Cevallos to the field; Ulises de la Cruz, Augusto Poroso, Iván Hurtado, Raúl Guerrón; Edwin Tenorio (Wellington Sánchez, 68 minutes), Juan Carlos Burbano, Édison Méndez, Aguinaga; Kaviedes (Alfonso Obregón, 89 minutes), Delgado.
El DT Emerson Leão armed this team: Rogeiro; Belletti, Lúcio, Roque Jr., Silvinho (César, 57 minutes); Émerson, Vampeta, Juninho, Rivaldo (Luizão, 62 minutes); Ronaldinho (Euler, 46 minutes), Romario.
Regarding the Ecuadorian goal, which had an international repercussion of notable dimensions, it was published that “the 51st minute was played and what everyone asked for arrived: the goal of the Believe, who took advantage of an excellent play by Kaviedes. At that moment everything exploded in emotion. Delgado came from the right and after receiving a pass from Jaime Kaviedes, he finished. Before that he Nine He made a brilliant play inside the area, after Álex Aguinaga gave him a pass. The tricolor was to win. He played well. He added three points. And he pleased the fans who asked for more, but who left happy because, against Brazil, Ecuador could.
Second win in a row
It did not occur to anyone that the match won by Ecuador against Brazil, in Quito, towards the 2002 World Cup, was a coincidence. And that it was not was established on the way to Germany 2006.
On November 18, 2004, EL UNIVERSO said, in an article entitled ‘They are not invincible’, that “Ecuador won yesterday against Brazil, current world champion, a historic victory for the eleventh date of the South American qualifying round. In addition, he took away the undefeated status that the auriverdes had in the qualifying contest for the 2006 World Cup in Germany″.
In the Atahualpa stadium, the Tricolor lined up with Edwin Villafuerte; Ulises de la Cruz, Iván Hurtado, Giovanny Espinoza, Paúl Ambrossi; Edwin Tenorio, Marlon Ayoví, Patricio Urrutia (Franklin Salas, 46 minutes), Édison Méndez; Jaime Iván Kaviedes (Walter Ayoví, 75 minutes), Agustín Delgado (Neicer Reasco, 90 minutes).
By Brazil jugaron Dida; Cafu, Juan, Roque Junior, Roberto Carlos; Renato, Kléberson (Ricardinho, 65 minutes), Juninho (Dudú, 75 minutes), Kaká (Adriano, 82 minutes); Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.
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At 77 minutes the 1-0 was sentenced. Diario EL UNIVERSO reported that “the Tricolor goal came at the most critical moment of the match, when tension and anxiety took over an entire country. Édison Méndez was able to finish off the goal with power, thirteen minutes from the end, after receiving a pass from Agustín Delgado. Goalkeeper Dida’s stretch was useless. A powerful shot brought down a team of 400 million dollars and the Atahualpa stadium exploded with happiness and emotion. Thus began an endless party.
Ecuador, with Luis Fernando Suárez on the bench, went to the 2006 World Cup third in Conmebol.
The 3-0 at Atahualpa
“Ecuador fell thrashed 3-0 against the Brazilian team, which led by Neymar on the field of play and Tite, debutant on the technical bench, showed a lucid game at the Atahualpa stadium to get back into the fight for classification to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Ecuador lost the undefeated pace it had at home in the tie and with the defeat against Auriverde closed a seven-year streak without losing at home, after the 2-1 defeat against Uruguay that left the Tri out of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa”, said this newspaper on September 2, 2016 of the beating suffered by the Tri on the eve.
It was recalled that “the last time that Brazil had dealt a rout to Ecuador, in Quito, it was on February 14, 1981 by 6-0, in a friendly game.
The visitors’ goals came like this: “At 70 minutes there was a foul in the area on Gabriel Barbosa, sanctioned with a penalty, which was confirmed by Neymar (72 minutes) for the 1-0. Tite’s team controlled the game and with Neymar they were incisive. The pressure caused a defensive imbalance that ended with an own goal by Walter Ayoví (86 minutes), for 2-0. Impotent in defense, the Tricolor gave up more and Gabriel Jesús finished off from a corner (90+2 minutes) to seal the 3-0″.
Under the command of Gustavo Quinteros, the Selection formed with Alexander Domínguez; Juan Carlos Paredes, Gabriel Achilier, Arturo Mina, Walter Ayoví; Cristhian Noboa, Carlos Gruezo (Fernando Gaibor, 81 minutes), Enner Valencia, Jefferson Montero (Michael Arroyo, 72 minutes); Miler Bolaños, Felipe Caicedo (Renato Ibarra, 65 minutes).
In his midst as a trainer for Brazil, Tite hizo jugar a Alisson; Alves, Marquinhos, Miranda, Marcelo; Casemiro, Renato Augusto, Paulinho, Willian (Coutinho, 60 minutes); Neymar. (D)
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