AC Milan’s Kaka scored a pair of goals to lead Brazil to a 5-0 rout of Ecuador for its first win in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Ronaldinho, Vagner Love and Elano completed the scoring Wednesday to leave Brazil unbeaten in qualifying, following a 0-0 draw in its opening game against Colombia last Sunday. For winless Ecuador it was the second straight loss, coming after a 1-0 defeat in its home opener against Venezuela last week.
In other qualifiers, Chile downed Peru 2-0, Paraguay beat Uruguay 1-0, while Colombia and Bolivia settled for goalless draw.
Brazil got on the board after 19 minutes when winger Maicon danced up the right side and sent a crossed pass over the goal mouth for striker Vagner Love to tap the ball home for a 1-0 lead. Ronaldinho finally widened the score on a fluke play in the 71st minute when Kaka fired from long range and the Barcelona striker put his foot out and deflected the ball just out of the reach of Viteri for a 2-0 lead.
Five minutes later, Kaka sent a booming right-footer from 30 metres out into the upper corner to make it 3-0. Robinho then pranced and feinted past de la Cruz on the right side and dropped the ball in the centre for Elano, who fired it home for a 4-0 lead. Kaka rounded off the win with a weak long-range shot that Viteri bent over to stop but mishandled to allow the ball to roll in.