South America has two representatives secured for the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015™ after Colombia's spot was confirmed thanks to Ecuador's 3-2 victory over Argentina in the final round of the 2014 Copa America Femenina. Accompanying Las Cafeteras is Brazil who qualified on Friday.
Argentina was the only team that could have qualified ahead of Colombia going into the last round, but they had to beat Ecuador and hope Colombia lost to Brazil in the final match of the competition. With the defeat, Argentina left with one point, while Colombia add four and attempt to become champions by beating Brazil, who are on six points.
Ecuador finished third with three points thanks to their courageous perforamce against Argentina in which they came back from a 2-0 deficit. At the Estadio Olimpico Atahualpa in Quito, Argentina took the lead with goals from Stephanie Banini in the 24th minute and Florence Bonsegundo five minutes later.
But La Tricolor showed tremendous character as Carina Caicedo scored in the 36th minute to give them momentum. In the second half, Ingrid Rodriguez equalised in the 60th minute and Giannina Lattanzio scored the decisive winner in the 77th minute.
Ecuador, for the first time in their history, will have to get through an intercontinental play-off against the fourth-place CONCACAF side for a chance to qualify for Canada 2015. The CONCACAF tournament will be played in the United States between 15-26 October.