SANTIAGO , June 11 (Xinhua) -- A duel between Chile and Ecuador's national teams will open the Copa Americe 2015 football tournament in Chile this evening at 20:30 local time (23:30 GMT) in Santiago's National Stadium.
The match is the first in Group A which also includes Mexico and Bolivia.
The host team see this match as the start of a road which they hope will lead them to lifting the trophy for the first time ever in the world's oldest international continental football competition.
Preliminary statistics favour the home nation in the match. The 47 times that these two teams have previously met, Chile have won 26 times, drawn 12 times and have only lost nine matches to Ecuador according to history.
The last time they faced each other, Chile won 2-1 at the Monumental Stadium in Chile on their way to Brazil 2014.