Ecuador National soccer team

Ecuador national under-20 football team

The Ecuadorian nationwide under-20 football team represents Ecuador in international under-20 football tournaments and is controlled because of the Ecuadorian Football Federation.

History[edit]

The ongoing future of Ecuador's national team has depended on extremely brilliant younger skills typically, as illustrated when you look at the staff that skilled and took part in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in which players such as for instance Segundo Castillo, Felix Borja, and Franklin Salas made the feeling. The U-20 squad had to wait ten years to re-qualify towards 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

In 2007, Ecuador's nationwide U-20 squad took part in the 2007 Panamerican Games. Beating the kind of Brazil and Bolivia, they reached the last silver match against Jamaica's childhood group, considered another surprise for these games. It absolutely was a hard-fought online game where Ecuador discovered themselves straight down in the 1st five full minutes for the match. They were unsuccessful at scoring before the final a quarter-hour of this online game whenever a deflected shot from Edmundo Zura fell to Jefferson Montero, which equalized. The previous few moments saw Zura score a penalty for a foul against Wilson Folleco, and Ecuador crowned by themselves as champions of the 2007 Panamerican online game in Brazil's most famous stadium, El Maracana. It absolutely was initial worldwide title acquired by any level of football group from Ecuador.

The Panamerican "Gold" team brings in youthful people who've been already viewed by great baseball groups in Europe. These same people had been called as much as the 2009 Southern American Youth Championship.