Peru national football team

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Peru

Nickname

La blanquirroja (the white and red one)

Association

Federación Peruana
de Fútbol

Head coach

Franco Navarro, 2006-

Most caps

Roberto Palacios (117)

Top scorer

Teófilo Cubillas (26)

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)





Home kit





Away kit

First international

Peru 0 - 4 Uruguay

(Lima, Peru; November 1, 1927)

Largest win

Peru 9 - 0 Bolivia

(Lima, Peru; 6 November 1927)

Worst 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 Famous managers
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

Peru National Team as of August 16, 2006

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
?	GK	Leao Butrón	6 May 1977			Universidad San Martín
?	GK	Diego Penny	22 Apr 1984			Bolognesi FC
?	DF	Alberto Rodriguez	31 Mar 1984			Sporting Cristal
?	DF	Miguel Villalta	16 Jun 1981			Cienciano
?	DF	Santiago Acasiete	22 Nov 1977			UD Almería
?	DF	Miguel Rebosio	20 Oct 1976			PAOK FC
?	DF	Amilton Prado	6 May 1979			Sporting Cristal
?	DF	Martín Hidalgo	15 Jun 1976			Sport Club Internacional
?	DF	Juan Manuel Vargas	5 Oct 1983			Calcio Catania
?	DF	Manuel Corrales	3 Sep 1982			FC Metz
?	MF	Carlos Zegarra	2 Mar 1977			PAOK FC
?	MF	Miguel Cevasco	27 Apr 1986			Universitario
?	MF	Rinaldo Cruzado	21 Sep 1984			Alianza Lima
?	MF	Nolberto Solano	12 Dec 1974	76	18	Newcastle United
?	MF	Juan Cominges	1 Oct 1984			Estudiantes de La Plata
?	MF	Juan Carlos Mariño	2 Jan 1982			Cienciano
?	MF	Roberto Palacios	28 Dec 1979			LDU Quito
?	FW	Claudio Pizarro	3 Oct 1978			Bayern Munich
?	FW	Jose Paolo Guerrero	1 Jan 1984			Hamburger SV
?	FW	Jefferson Farfán	20 Oct 1984			PSV Eindhoven
?	FW	Roberto Jimenez	26 Apr 1983			San Lorenzo de Almagro
?	FW	Miguel Mostto	11 Nov 1977			Cienciano