{"id":9111,"date":"2014-05-07T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2014-05-08T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:14:59","slug":"surprise-names-in-ecuador-squad-for-world-cup-warm-up-against-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/surprise-names-in-ecuador-squad-for-world-cup-warm-up-against-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise names in Ecuador squad for World Cup warm up against the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Soccer_ball_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9193\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Soccer_ball_6.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer_ball_6\" width=\"576\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Soccer_ball_6.jpg 576w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Soccer_ball_6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Soccer_ball_6-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>QUITO, Ecuador &#8211; Defender Cristian Ramirez of Fortuna Duesseldorf and midfielder Carlos Gruezo of Stuttgart were some of the surprise names in Ecuador&#8217;s squad for its World Cup warm-up against the Netherlands on May 17 in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Reinaldo Rueda also called up midfielder Fernando Saritama, who has played sparingly in the local league, and Jaime Ayovi of Mexico&#8217;s Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United midfielder, Antonio Valencia, was included in the squad as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador&#8217;s final warm-up is against England in the United States in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-man squad announced Tuesday exposes Rueda&#8217;s concern with the defence, which has struggled with regular starters Jorge Guagua, Walter Ayovi and Gabriel Achilier.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador is Group Eat the World Cup along with Switzerland, France and Honduras. It opens its campaign against Switzerland on June 15 in Brasilia.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Squad:<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers: Maximo Banguera (Barcelona of Ecuador), Alexander Dominguez (Liga de Quito), Adrian Bone (El Nacional).<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Oscar Bagui (Emelec), Gabriel Achilier (Emelec), Frickson Erazo (Flamengo), Walter Ayovi (Pachuca), Jorge Guagua (Emelec), Juan Carlos Paredes (Barcelona of Ecuador), Cristian Ramirez (Fortuna Duesseldorf).<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Segundo Castillo (Al Hilal), Carlos Gruezo (Stuttgart), Renato Ibarra (Vitesse), Fidel Martinez (Tijuana), Cristian Noboa (Moscow Dynamo), Pedro Quinonez (Emelec), Luis Saritama (Barcelona of Ecuador), Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Felipe Caicedo (Al Jazira), Jefferson Montero (Morelia), Joao Rojas (Cruz Azul), Armando Wila (Universidad Catolica), Enner Valencia (Pachuca), Jaime Ayovi (Tijuana).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO, Ecuador &#8211; Defender Cristian Ramirez of Fortuna Duesseldorf and midfielder Carlos Gruezo of Stuttgart were some of the surprise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2968,2134,2969],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ecuador","tag-soc","tag-squad","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}