Peru national football team

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Peru

Nickname

La blanquirroja (the white and red one)

Association

Federación Peruana
de Fútbol

Confederation

CONMEBOL (South America)

Head coach

Julio César Uribe, 2007-

Most caps

Roberto Palacios (117)

Top scorer

Teófilo Cubillas (26)

Home stadium

Estadio Nacional de Lima

FIFA code

PER

FIFA ranking

Highest FIFA ranking

34 (September 1997)

Lowest FIFA ranking

86 (February 2003)

Elo ranking

Highest Elo ranking

12 (June 1978)

Lowest Elo ranking

75 (May 1994)





First kit





Second kit

First international

Peru 0 - 4 Uruguay

(Lima, Peru; November 1, 1927)

Biggest win

Peru 9 - 0 Bolivia

(Lima, Peru; 6 November 1927)

Biggest defeat

Brazil 7 - 0 Peru

(Santa Cruz, Bolivia; 26 June 1997)

World Cup

Appearances

4 (First in 1930)

Best result

Quarterfinals, 1970

Copa América

Appearances

27 (First in 1927)

Best result

Winners, 1939 and 1975

The Peru national football team is the national football team of Peru. The team competes with the other nine nations in the CONMEBOL conference within the FIFA. Historically speaking, Peru has had difficulty competing with Brazil and Argentina in World Cup qualifying rounds.

Between 1970 and 1982, a Golden Generation of Peruvian footballers qualified for three out of four FIFA World Cups and won the Copa América in 1975. Teófilo Cubillas was the star of the side, scoring five goals in two different finals, and his attacking flair and skill became synonymous for the world with Peru's football team in the 1970s. Six straight qualification failures however have since plagued the once proud side.

The preliminaries for Korea/Japan were certainly not any respite from that, as the team finished eighth in the group with just four wins in eighteen matches. The fact that they only managed to score 14 goals in that many matches demonstrates how far the attack had fallen since the days of Cubillas. Particularly low points of the qualifying tournament included a 3-0 loss at Venezuela and defeats in over half of their home matches -- to Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil.

The campaign to reach France 1998 was thwarted only by the goal difference tiebreaker, as they finished even on points with Chile.

After making their FIFA World Cup debut at Uruguay 1930, Peru next made an impact on the finals at Mexico 1970 where they beat Bulgaria and Morocco to start off the tournament with a surprising bang. The Brazil of Rivelino, Tostao, Jairzinho and Pelé put an end to that adventure 4-2 in the quarter-finals. The Argentina 1978 finals also saw Peru finish first in its opening group, as they managed to beat Scotland and Iran, then drew with the eventual finalist, the Netherlands.

Once into the second round in 1978 - a second group stage - they did not live up to their promise, falling rather dismally to Brazil, Poland, and Argentina without scoring a goal. By Spain 1982 the team's performance declined as the team fell at the opening hurdle, drawing with Cameroon and Italy before getting crushed by Poland 5-1. The 2004 Copa América, which they recently hosted, saw the team lose in the quarter-finals against Argentina. This began a wave of criticism against Peru's then coach Paulo Autuori, who boycotted the media [1], and his squad.

1 World Cup record
2 Copa América record
3 Current Squad
4 Kit Evolution
5 Famous players
6 Managers
- 6.1 Before 1990
- 6.2 Since 1990
7 External links

[edit] World Cup record

Peruvian national football team in 1930.

1930 - Round 1
1934 - Withdrew
1938 - Did not enter
1950 - Withdrew
1954 - Withdrew
1958 to 1966 - Did not qualify
1970 - Quarterfinals
1974 - Did not qualify
1978 - Round 2
1982 - Round 1
1986 to 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] Copa América record

1916 to 1926 - Did not enter
1927 - Third place
1929 - Fourth place
1935 - Third place
1937 - Sixth place
1939 - Winners
1941 - Fourth place
1942 - Fifth place
1945 - Withdrew
1946 - Withdrew
1947 - Fifth place
1949 - Third place
1953 - Fifth place
1955 - Third place
1956 - Sixth place
1957 - Fourth place

1959 - Fourth place
1959 - Withdrew
1963 - Fifth place
1967 - Withdrew
1975 - Winners
1979 - Semifinals
1983 - Semifinals
1987 - Round 1
1989 - Round 1
1991 - Round 1
1993 - Quarterfinals
1995 - Round 1
1997 - Fourth place
1999 - Quarterfinals
2001 - Quarterfinals
2004 - Quarterfinals

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
?	GK	Leao Butrón	May 6, 1977 (age 29)			Universidad San Martín
?	GK	George Forsyth	June 20, 1982 (age 24)			Alianza Lima
?	DF	Alberto Rodriguez	March 31, 1984 (age 23)	31	0	Sporting Clube de Braga
?	DF	Miguel Villalta	June 16, 1981 (age 25)	23	0	Sporting Cristal
?	DF	Santiago Acasiete	November 22, 1977 (age 29)	15	2	UD Almería
?	DF	Walter Vilchez	February 20, 1983 (age 24)			Club Deportivo Cruz Azul
?	DF	Martín Hidalgo	June 15, 1976 (age 30)	35	2	Sport Club Internacional
?	DF	Juan Manuel Vargas	October 5, 1983 (age 23)	11	0	Calcio Catania
?	DF	Manuel Corrales	September 3, 1982 (age 24)			FC Metz
?	MF	Miguel Cevasco	April 27, 1986 (age 20)			Universitario de Deportes
?	MF	Rinaldo Cruzado	September 21, 1984 (age 22)			Grasshopper-Club Zürich
?	MF	Nolberto Solano	December 12, 1974 (age 32)	76	18	Newcastle United
?	MF	Juan Carlos Mariño	January 2, 1982 (age 25)			Cienciano
?	MF	Christian Zuñiga	January 1, 1979 (age 28)			Melgar
?	MF	Henry Quinteros	October 19, 1977 (age 29)			Lech Poznań
?	MF	Roberto Palacios	December 28, 1972 (age 34)	117	19	Al Nassr
14	FW	Claudio Pizarro	October 3, 1978 (age 28)	46	11	Bayern Munich
9	FW	Jose Paolo Guerrero	January 1, 1984 (age 23)	25	9	Hamburger SV
17	FW	Jefferson Farfán	October 20, 1984 (age 22)	30	11	PSV Eindhoven
?	FW	Roberto Jimenez	April 26, 1983 (age 23)			San Lorenzo de Almagro
?	FW	Daniel Chavez	January 8, 1988 (age 19)			Club Brugge K.V.
?	FW	Wilmer Aguirre	October 5, 1983 (age 23)			FC Metz