The selection of Guatemaladirected by the Mexican coach Luis Fernando Tenawill play a friendly match against the World Cup Ecuador next Sunday, June 7, at 2:00 p.m., at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field, a multipurpose venue with capacity for almost 24,000 spectators, located in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
The national team arrives at this friendly match after several months for the forgot. This is because, after being left out of the World Cup in November 2025, Guatemala has played three games so far this year and lost all three: 1-0 against Canada in January, 7-0 against Algeria in March and 3-1 against the Czech Republic in June.
For its part, Ecuador arrives in the United States after chaining 18 matches without losing: seven wins and eleven draws. In addition, he is already preparing for the 2026 World Cup, in which he will be part of the Group E together with Germany, Ivory Coast and Curacaoone of the four debuting nations in the tournament, along with Cape Verde, Uzbekistan and Jordan.
Against this background, the friendly match between Guatemala and Ecuador arouses great interest among fans of the Bicolormainly because the Blue and White does not face a team from the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) for almost two years, when he measured himself against Uruguay in September of the 2024.
The latest results of the Bicolor against rivals Conmebol
Guatemala 1-1 Uruguay: September 1, 2024
The Uruguayan team, then led by the Uruguayan technical director Diego Perez Aguadowas presented at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with an integrated squad exclusively by footballers from the local Uruguayan league. From that account, the match against the Guatemalans It was much more even than expected.
The attacking midfielder of Central Español FC, of the First Division of Uruguay, Lucas Pinoopened the scoring at minute 20 of the first half. However, Pedro Altanmidfielder CSD Municipal of Guatemala, scored the goal of the draw definitive at minute 66 of the second half, to happiness of fans in the US
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Argentina 4-1 Guatemala: June 14, 2024
In the last preparation match of the albiceleste before contesting the Copa América 2024which ended up winning the team led by Lionel Scalonithe Argentina team faced Guatemala at the Northwest Stadium in Landover, Marylandbefore almost 60 thousand spectators who witnessed five goals in the friendly.
Guatemala surprised the third minute of the first half by taking the historic lead thanks to an own goal from Lisandro Martínez. However, the Albiceleste ended up imposing their dominance in the United States with doubles of Lionel Messi and Lautaro Martínez, who took advantage of the errors in the start of goalkeeper Nicholas Hagen.
Guatemala 0-0 Venezuela: March 24, 2024
In a tactical duel in which the Bicolor managed to neutralize the attacks of the Red winethe Venezuelan and Guatemalan teams tied 0-0 in an international friendly played at the Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, one of the sixteen headquarters of the 2026 World Cup, a tournament to which neither of these two teams managed to qualify.
The duel closed the double FIFA date in March for both teams and the tie left the two goalkeepers, Nicholas hagenfrom Guatemala, and Joel Graterolfrom Venezuela, like the main figures of the party by maintaining its undefeated arches. However, the Blue and White recorded more shots on goal, as the Venezuelans committed 32 fouls.
Ecuador 2-0 Venezuela: March 21, 2024
The Ecuadorian team defeated the Guatemala team 2-0 in an international friendly match played at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. The goals of the Ecuadorian victory were scored by John Yeboah and Gonzalo Platain a meeting that served as preparation for the world cup qualifiers of both teams.
Now they will see each other again more than two years later. However, historically The senior men’s teams of Ecuador and Guatemala have faced each other in eight friendly matches, with a clear Ecuadorian domainsince the Central American squad has never been able to beat the South American team: 5 defeats and three draws.
