Kammala wannan jumla: Gwagwarmayar da ke tsakanin 'yan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Ecuador da Peru ta samo asali ne daga rikici na tarihi tsakanin ƙasashen biyu wanda ya koma karni na 19. A cikin 1995, bayan ɗan gajeren Cenepa War, CONMEBOL ya yi la'akari da canzawa
wannan shekara ta Copa América rukuni na rukuni don hana wasa tsakanin bangarorin biyu, amma a ƙarshe bai yi ba. A cewar masanin tarihin al'adu Michael Handelsman, magoya bayan Ecuadorian suna ganin rashin nasara ga Colombia ko Peru "hujja ce ta nuna rashin ikon Ecuador na kafa kanta a matsayin ikon kwallon kafa na duniya". Handelsman ya daɗa cewa "gwagwarmaya tana da tsanani, kuma wasannin kullum suna nuna alfahari da daraja na ƙasa".