How many times Ecuador is go in to play world soccer cup?
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This year is Ecuador's second trip to the finals.  The only other year they qualified was in 2002.
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They have made 2 world cups\nBrazil got to keep the first one after\nwining it 3 times
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The Fifa World Cup happens every 4 years. Countries are picked randomly, in similar fashion to the olympics.
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Because Ecuador isn't in the World Cup this summer
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Friday 9 June 2006.\n\nGermany : Costa Rica\nVenue : FIFA WM Stadion München, Munich \n\nPoland : Ecuador \nVenue : FIFA WM Stadion Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen \n\nYes, Ronaldo retains his place in the Brazil's world cup squad.
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The coach is from Colombia, hisname Luis Fernando Suarez, watch out Poland, Germany and Costa Rica. Ecuador rules! Si se puede!
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32 nations (teams) qualified for the World Cup.  After each team playing 3 matches, 16 teams have been eliminated, with 16 teams left.\n\nTo see who qualified, have a look at the link in the source.
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FIFA World Cup qualification is the process a team must go through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals, or, more commonly known as the FIFA World Cup or Football World Cup. FIFA World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.\n\nQualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe), and are organized by their respective confederations. For each tournament, FIFA decides beforehand the number of spots awarded to each of the continental zones, based on the relative strength of the confederations' teams (and, some may argue, political considerations).\n\nThe hosts of the World Cup receive an automatic berth in the finals. Unlike many other sports, results of the previous World Cups or of the continental championships are not taken into account. Until 2002, the defending champions also received an automatic berth, but starting from the 2006 World Cup they also need to enter qualifying.\n\nIn the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, 198 teams from the six FIFA confederations were allocated a share of the 32 spots available on the basis of the strength of their teams. The final distribution was as follows:\n\nEurope - represented by UEFA : 51 teams competing for 13 places (Germany qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 14 places) \nAfrica - the CAF : 51 teams, 5 places \nSouth America - CONMEBOL : 10 teams, 4.5 places \nAsia - the AFC : 39 teams, 4.5 places \nNorth, Central American and Caribbean - CONCACAF : 34 teams, 3.5 places \nOceania - the OFC : 12 teams, 0.5 places (not guaranteed a position). \nEach .5 indicates a place in inter-confederation matchups for the last two spots, namely playoffs between AFC and CONCACAF and between CONMEBOL and OFC.
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Ecuador made it to World Cup 2006 as the 4th team is South America behind Brazil and Argentina and ahead of Paraguay and Uruguay.\n\nEcuador won 8 games against Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia twice, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. They tied 4 games against Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Chile. They also lost the remaining 6 games against Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia.\n\nTheir biggest loss was a 3-0 loss against Columbia, and their biggest win was a 5-2 win against Paraguay. Other notable wins were 1-0 and 2-0 wins against Brazil and Argentina respectively.\n\nThey earned 28 points, but finished ahead of Paraguay on goal difference. Coincidentaly they scored the same goals as Paraguay but had a better defensive record.\n\nTheir top scorer is Edison Mendez with 7 goals in all games. In the qualifying games, it was the same player with 5 goals.\n\nIn 2002, Ecuador finished in 2nd place with 31 points behind Argentina, but ahead of Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. \n\nThey had wins against Venezuela twice, Peru twice, Bolivia twice, Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay. The tied with Colombia twice, Chile, and Uruguay. They lost against Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina twice and Uruguay.\n\nI hope this information is enough.
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32. it was 32 since 1998. Before that it was 24. the first world cup had just 13 teams.
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i think ecuador is hitting big this year, i mean talk about before, its their second ever in all their history that they actually get classified for the world cup and bam they begin playing hard. i really hope they make it to the last, even though everyone goes around laughing at it, its pretty sad those people dont even read newspapers to be INFORMED of what is going around worldwide. all i have to say is, READ people READ!!!
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They have never won the World Cup\n\nIf you mean how many times have they won a game in the world Cup, then that would be 4 games: against Togo i this world cup, and against Poland, Portugal, Italy and Spain in 2002 (details here: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/p/pwc/r/2002.html )
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for the 06 world cup i believe a record number of around 202 national teams signed up to try and qualify for the world cup, higher than for any previous world cup. however in every world cup only 32 teams can play in the finals so qualifiers (qualifying games) are held starting from two years before the actual world cup to determine who will actually play. no one knows how many teams will try to enter the 2010 world cup they will start holding the qualifiers sometime in 2008 i believe...
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I'd like to see Ecuador win. They've made an impressive effort.
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There are actually 32 teams in the World Cup. Teams qualified by playing within their regions for the past three years. Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Oceania are the regions represented. At the beginning of the qualifying rounds, there were around 200 teams trying to get into the World Cup. \n\nThe number of teams from each region allowed into the World Cup varies by region. Regions with more skilled teams get more spots (this year, Europe has 13 teams represented, which is the most, by far).\n\nThis article shows how many teams from each region are chosen, along with many other details:
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The FIFA World Cup is the most significant competition in world football. The World Cup is contested by the men's national football teams of member nations of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) (the sport's global governing body). The event takes place every four years and involves 32 national teams competing over a four-week period in a previously nominated host nation.
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Michael Owen has scored 4 times for England in World Cup play. Twice in FIFA World Cup 1998 and two more times in FIFA World Cup 2002.