At the Monumental Stadium in Guayaquil will play the Ecuadorian team against Bolivia in October for the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, confirms the FEF | football | sports

The Monumental Stadium of Guayaquil, owned by the Barcelona Sporting Club, will be the stronghold of the Ecuadorian national team for the commitment on Thursday, October 7 against Bolivia, for the eleventh date of the qualifiers in the World Cup Qatar 2022.

After 24 years, the Tricolor will once again play a match for this competition in the Monumental, on that occasion it was in the fight for a contingent in France 1998. He had previously played matches for the qualifiers at the 1990 World Cup in Italy and the United States. 1994. This track also hosted duels for the 1993 Copa América, the 1995 U-17 World Cup and two Copa Libertadores finals (1990 and 1998 which Barcelona lost).

‘The return of the Selection to Guayaquil coincides with the octubrinas festivities, by his 201 years of Independence’, stands out in the note published in the Web page of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF), where the headquarters are confirmed to receive the Bolivians.

He also explains that the board of the FEF, after a meeting with the Municipality of Guayaquil, chose the track of the Monumental, which will host the final of the Copa Libertadores 2022.

The last encounter that the Tri disputed in this scene of the main port was the 12 of October of 1997 before the combined one of the Plateau for the eliminatory ones in France. It was a 1-0 victory and the author of the goal was Ariel Graziani, Argentine-Ecuadorian striker, who militated at that time in Emelec.

Ecuador’s other rivals will be Venezuela in Caracas and Colombia in Barranquilla on Sunday 10 and Thursday 14 of the same month, respectively. (D)