Football World Cup 2002 / Ecuador

This article covers the Ecuadorian national soccer team at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea .

qualification

In the South American Confederation, the qualification was played in a single large group that included all ten countries. The first four qualified directly, the fifth had to play two playoffs against the winner of the Oceania group.

Somewhat surprisingly, Ecuador finished second in the South American group, ahead of Brazil, and qualified for the finals of a soccer World Cup for the first time .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Argentina	42:15	43
2	Ecuador	23:20	31
3	Brazil	31:17	30th
4th	Paraguay	29:23	30th
5	Uruguay	19:13	27
6th	Colombia	20:15	27
7th	Bolivia	21:33	18th
8th	Peru	14:25	16
9	Venezuela	18:44	16
10	Chile	15:27	12

Ecuador	-	Venezuela	2-0
Brazil	-	Ecuador	3: 2
Paraguay	-	Ecuador	3: 1
Ecuador	-	Peru	2: 1
Argentina	-	Ecuador	2-0
Ecuador	-	Colombia	0-0
Ecuador	-	Bolivia	2-0
Uruguay	-	Ecuador	4-0
Ecuador	-	Chile	1-0
Venezuela	-	Ecuador	1: 2
Ecuador	-	Brazil	1-0
Ecuador	-	Paraguay	2: 1
Peru	-	Ecuador	1: 2
Ecuador	-	Argentina	0: 2
Colombia	-	Ecuador	0-0
Bolivia	-	Ecuador	1: 5
Ecuador	-	Uruguay	1: 1
Chile	-	Ecuador	0-0

Ecuadorian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	José Francisco Cevallos	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	04/17/1971	3	0	1	0	0
12	Oswaldo Ibarra	CD El Nacional	09/08/1969	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Daniel Viteri	CS Emelec	12/12/1981	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Augusto Porozo	CS Emelec	04/13/1974	3	0	1	0	0
3	Iván Hurtado	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	08/16/1974	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Ulises de la Cruz	Hibernian Edinburgh	02/08/1974	3	0	1	0	0
6th	Raúl Guerrón	Deportivo Quito	10/12/1976	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Luis Gomez	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	04/20/1972	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Giovanny Espinoza	SD Aucas	04/12/1977	0	0	0	0	0
23	Walter Ayoví	CS Emelec	08/11/1979	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Alfonso Obregón	LDU Quito	05/12/1972	3	0	0	0	0
10	Álex Aguinaga	Necaxa	06/07/1969	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Juan Carlos Burbano	CD El Nacional	02/15/1969	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Marlon Ayoví	Deportivo Quito	09/27/1971	3	0	0	0	0
16	Cléber Chalá	CD El Nacional	06/29/1971	3	0	1	0	0
19th	Edison Méndez	Deportivo Quito	March 16, 1979	3	1	0	0	0
20th	Edwin Tenorio	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	06/16/1976	2	0	0	0	0
21st	Wellington Sánchez	CS Emelec	06/19/1974	0	0	0	0	0
striker
7th	Nicolás Asencio	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	04/26/1975	1	0	0	0	0
9	Iván Kaviedes	Barcelona SC Guayaquil	October 24, 1977	2	0	1	0	0
11	Agustín Delgado	Southampton FC	December 23, 1974	3	1	0	0	0
13	Ángel Fernández	CD El Nacional	08/02/1971	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Carlos Tenorio	LDU Quito	05/14/1979	3	0	2	0	0
Trainer
	Hernán Darío Gómez		02/03/1956

Preliminary round

Ecuador were blatant underdogs in Group G and so the first two games against Italy and Mexico were almost as expected lost, even though Ecuador briefly led 1-0 against Mexico. In the last encounter, the very weak Croatians who had previously beaten Italy were surprisingly defeated. Nevertheless, Ecuador was eliminated from the tournament as bottom of the table.

Group G

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Mexico	4: 2	7th
2	Italy	4: 3	4th
3	Croatia	2: 3	3
4th	Ecuador	2: 4	3

June 3, 2002 in Sapporo
Italy	-	Ecuador	2: 0 (2: 0)
June 9, 2002 in Miyagi
Mexico	-	Ecuador	2: 1 (1: 1)
June 13, 2002 in Yokohama
Ecuador	-	Croatia	1: 0 (0: 0)