Soccer World Cup 2015 / Ecuador

This article is about the Ecuadorian women's national soccer team at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada . Ecuador entered the finals for the first time, and it was the first time the Ecuadorians had ever entered an intercontinental tournament. Ecuador became the last team to qualify with a goal in the last minute of the final qualifier. The team thus benefited from the increase in the field of participants to 24 teams.

qualification

For Ecuador, the route to Canada first went through the Sudamericano Femenino 2014 in Ecuador , in which all CONMEBOL members participated without prior qualifications. This was played over two group phases. In the first five teams met each other, of which the two best qualified for the second round.

First round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Colombia	4th	4th	0	0	010: 100	+9	12
2.	Ecuador	4th	2	0	2	002: 200	± 0	06th
3.	Uruguay	4th	2	0	2	005: 900	−4	06th
4th	Venezuela	4th	1	1	2	004: 600	−2	04th
5.	Peru	4th	0	1	3	001: 400	−3	01

September 11, 2014 in Riobamba
Ecuador	-	Peru	1: 0 (1: 0)	Barre (84th)
September 13, 2014 in Ambato
Ecuador	-	Venezuela	1: 0 (0: 0)	Vázquez (30.)
September 17, 2014 in Ambato
Ecuador	-	Colombia	0: 1 (0: 0)
September 19, 2014 in Latacunga
Ecuador	-	Uruguay	1: 2 (0: 1)	Lattanzio (87.)

Second round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	2	1	0	010-000	+10	07th
2.	Colombia	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
3.	Ecuador	3	1	0	2	004: 800	−4	03
4th	Argentina	3	0	1	2	002: 900	−7	01

September 24, 2014 in Quito
Brazil	-	Ecuador	4: 0 (3: 0)
September 26, 2014 in Quito
Colombia	-	Ecuador	2: 1 (1: 0)	Lattanzio (86.)
September 28, 2014 in Quito
Argentina	-	Ecuador	2: 3 (2: 1)	Caicedo (36th), Rodríguez (60th), Lattanzio (77th)

While Brazil and Colombia qualified directly for the World Cup, Ecuador had to play third in the group against the fourth in the CONCACAF qualification.

Playoff CONMEBOL / CONCACAF

November 8, 2014 in Quito	Ecuador	-	Trinidad and Tobago		0-0
December 2, 2014 in Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago	-	Ecuador		0: 1 (0: 0)	Quinteros (90 + 1.)

In total, coach Vanessa Arauz used 20 players, of which only Lorena Aguilar , Shirley Berrúz , Ligia Moreira , Ingrid Rodríguez , Ámbar Torres and Erika Vásquez were used in all nine games. Mónica Quinteros , who scored the decisive goal in the last game against Trinidad and Tobago, only appeared in the playoff games. The top scorer with three goals was Giannina Lattanzio .

The playoff second leg in Port of Spain was the 50th game in Ecuador and the first game for the Ecuadorians outside the South American mainland.

Thanks to their successful World Cup qualification in December 2014, the Ecuadorians improved to their best position to date, 46th in the FIFA world rankings.

preparation

Test matches against Mexico took place in Mexico City on February 5 and 7 . The first game was the Ecuadorians' first game in Central America, they lost it 0-1. The second was lost 0-2. On April 11, Ecuador played against Colombia in Tulcán and lost 4-1. On the 14th they played against each other again in San Juan de Pasto ( Colombia ) and Ecuador lost 2-1.

The team

Contingent

A preliminary squad was named on April 24, 2015. The final squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers) had to be communicated to the FIFA general secretariat at least ten working days before the opening match.

No.	Player	birth date	society	Country games	Country goals	World Cup 2015
						Sp.	Gates
goal
1	Shirley Berruz	01/06/1991	Rocafuerte FC	028	00	3	0	0	0	0
12	Irene Tobar	05/05/1989	7 Febrero	010	00	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Andrea Vera	04/10/1993	San Francisco	005	00	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
3	Nancy Aguilar	07/06/1985	7 Febrero	049	00	3	0	1	0	0
16	Ligia Moreira	03/19/1992	Rocafuerte FC	046	03	2	0	0	0	1
2	Katherine Ortiz	02/16/1991	Rocafuerte FC	026th	03	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Angie Ponce	07/14/1996	Talleres Emanuel	031	05	3	1	0	0	0
7th	Ingrid Rodríguez	11/24/1991	Unión Española	037	06th	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Merly Zambrano	December 07, 1981	Espuce	011	00	0	0	0	0	0
midfield
18th	Adriana Barre	04/04/1995	Galápagos SC	023	00	0	0	0	0	0
5	Mayra Olvera	08/22/1992	7 Febrero	036	02	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Ana Palacios	02/16/1991	Rocafuerte FC	031	00	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Kerlly Real	11/07/1998	Espuce	027	02	3	0	1	0	0
13	Madelin Riera	08/07/1989	Unión Española	034	00	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Alexandra Salvador	08/11/1995	Duthie San Francisco	014th	00	1	0	0	0	0
8th	Erika Vásquez	08/04/1992	Unión Española	034	03	2	0	1	0	0
21st	Mabel Velarde	December 04, 1988	Quito FC	015th	00	2	0	0	0	0
attack
14th	Carina Caicedo	07/23/1987	Quito FC	009	01	1	0	0	0	0
23	Mariela Jacome	03/06/1996	San Francisco	001	00	0	0	0	0	0
9	Giannina Lattanzio	05/19/1993	7 Febrero	014th	00	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Denise Pesántes	01/14/1988	Galápagos SC	035	03	3	0	0	0	0
11	Mónica Quinteros	07/05/1988	7 Febrero	045	08th	3	0	0	0	0
10	Ámbar Torres	December 21, 1994	Talleres Emanuel	024	10	1	0	0	0	0
Coaching staff
trainer	Vanessa Arauz	02/05/1989	Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol			3		0	0	0

1. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list (published: May 28, 2015), positions according to association information ( memento of the original from May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Status: June 16, 2015
3. ↑ In the second game

Players not included

Player	birth date	society	Country games	Country goals
goal
America Ortiz		Cumandá	00?	000
attack
Manoly Baquerizo		Talleres Emanuel	00?	00?

Games at the World Cup

Winnipeg Vancouver

Venues

When the groups were drawn, Ecuador was not seeded and was "drawn" into the group with defending champion Japan. Other opponents are the teams from Cameroon and Switzerland, who have also qualified for the first time. So far, no team in this group has played against any of the other teams.

According to the positions in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup, this was the weakest group: defending champions Japan were in fourth place, Ecuador only in 48th place, Switzerland at least 19, but Cameroon only in 53rd place; Group average = 31. In addition, it was the only group with three newcomers, which had never existed before.

Ecuador started 6-0 in their first game against physically superior Cameroonians, the worst loss of a World Cup newcomer in their first game against another World Cup newcomer. In the second game against also physically superior Swiss women, they helped - especially Angie Ponce with two own goals - that the defeat was even more pronounced at 1:10. However, Ponce also scored the only goal for the Ecuadorians with a converted penalty. In the third game against the defending champion who had already qualified for the round of 16, however, they drew a respectable 0: 1 from the affair. But again it was Ponce who helped. But FIFA rated Yūki Ōgimi as a goal scorer. Here, however, the physical differences were less. Ecuador was eliminated with three defeats after the preliminary round.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Japan	3	3	0	0	004: 100	+3	09
2.	Cameroon	3	2	0	1	009: 300	+6	06th
3.	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	011: 400	+7	03
4th	Ecuador	3	0	0	3	001:170	−16	00

Mon, June 8, 2015, in Vancouver
Cameroon	-	Ecuador	6: 0 (3: 0)
Fri. June 12, 2015, in Vancouver
Switzerland	-	Ecuador	10: 1 (2: 0)
Tue. June 16, 2015, in Winnipeg
Ecuador	-	Japan	0: 1 (0: 1)

particularities

With 26-year-old Vanessa Arauz , Ecuador provided the youngest coach ever to coach a team at a women's World Cup.

See also

Ecuadorian Women's National Football Team / World Championships

Web links

• conmebol.com: Copa América Femenina

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Germany replaces the USA at the top"
2. ↑ femexfut.org: La Selección Nacional de México Femenil Enfrentará a Ecuador ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ femexfut.org: "Selección Nacional Femenil de México Derrotó a Ecuador" ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ femexfut.org: “La Selección Nacional de México Femenil Derrotó 2-0 a Ecuador” ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ TRI FEMENINA SE REÚNE PARA SU SÉPTIMO MICROCICLO
6. ↑ fifa.com: "Regulations FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™"
7. ↑ framba.de: "Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ HIGHLIGHTS: Ecuador v. Japan - FIFA Women's World Cup 2015