Bolivia national football team

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Bolivia

Nickname

Los primeros once (The first eleven)

Association

Federación Boliviana
de Fútbol

Confederation

CONMEBOL (South America)

Head coach

Erwin Sánchez

Most caps

Marco Sandy (93)

Top scorer

Victor Ugarte (16)

Home stadium

Estadio Hernando Siles

FIFA code

BOL

FIFA ranking

101

Highest FIFA ranking

18 (July 1997)

Lowest FIFA ranking

114 (July 2003)

Elo ranking





First kit





Second kit

First international

Chile 7 - 1 Bolivia

(Santiago, Chile; 12 October 1926)

Biggest win

Bolivia 7 - 0 Venezuela

(La Paz, Bolivia; 22 August 1993)

Bolivia 9 - 2 Haiti

(La Paz, Bolivia; 5 March 2000)

Biggest defeat

Peru 9 - 0 Bolivia

(Lima, Peru; 6 November 1927)

Brazil 10 - 1 Bolivia

(São Paulo, Brazil; 10 April 1949)

World Cup

Appearances

3 (First in 1930)

Best result

Round 1, 1930, 1950, 1994

Copa América

Appearances

22 (First in 1926)

Best result

Winners, 1963

Confederations Cup

Appearances

1 (First in 1999)

Best result

1st round, 1999

The Bolivia national football team is the national team of Bolivia and is controlled by the Federación Boliviana de Fútbol. It is historically one of the weakest teams in CONMEBOL. After playing in the 1930 and 1950 World Cups, they qualified just once -- in 1994. There, playing champions Germany in the tournament's opening game in Chicago, Bolivia lost 1-0 as Marco Etcheverry, considered the nation's best player of the 1990s, got sent off just three minutes after coming on as a substitute. They never advanced past the first round of any World Cup, but did win the Copa América once, in 1963.

1 History
2 World Cup record
3 Copa América record
4 Pan American Games record
5 Famous players

[edit] History

Although one of the weaker teams in South America, Bolivia has long provided tough opposition on home soil to more illustrious opponents, possibly because of the very high altitude of the city of La Paz (3,600 meters above sea level) to which the Bolivian team is acclimatized. The 1958, 1962 and 1970 World Cup qualifying campaigns saw Bolivia only narrowly fail to qualify. In this era they also won the Copa America in 1963. Notable players of this period included Maximo Alcocer and Ramiro Blacutt. In the 1978 qualifying campaign, Bolivia topped their group but were then heavily beaten by Brazil and Peru, and subsequently by Hungary in an intercontinental play-off. Bolivia would not come as close to qualifying again until the 1990 campaign, finishing runners-up on goal difference to Uruguay.

The 1994 campaign saw Bolivia eventually qualify after an absence of 44 years.