Bolivian national soccer team

Bolivia
Bolivia

Nickname (s)

La Verde

Association

Federación Boliviana de Fútbol

confederacy

CONMEBOL

Head coach

César Farías (since 2019)

captain

Ronald Raldes

Record scorer

Joaquin Botero (20)

Record player

Ronald Raldes (102)

Home stadium

Estadio Hernando Siles

FIFA code

BOL

FIFA rank

75th (1324 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international game Chile 7-1 Bolivia ( Santiago , Chile ; October 12, 1926)

Biggest wins Bolivia 7-0 Venezuela ( La Paz , Bolivia ; August 22, 1993) Bolivia 9-2 Haiti ( La Paz , Bolivia ; March 5, 2000)

Biggest defeats Uruguay 9-0 Bolivia ( Lima , Peru ; November 6, 1927) Brazil 10-1 Bolivia ( São Paulo , Brazil ; April 10, 1949)

Successes in tournaments

World Championship

Participation in the finals

3 ( first : 1930 )

Best results

Round 1, 1930, 1950, 1994

South American Championship

Participation in the finals

26 ( first : 1926 )

Best results

1963 winner

Confederations Cup

Participation in the finals

1 ( first : 1999 )

Best results

1st round 1999

(As of November 20, 2018)

The Bolivian national soccer team is the national soccer team of Bolivia .

The Bolivian football association Federación Boliviana de Fútbol was founded in 1925. Membership in FIFA followed a year later . The shirt colors of the national team - nicknamed "Verdes" (= the Greens) - are green for the shirt and socks and white for the pants.

Home advantage

The Bolivian national team plays their home games at the Estadio Hernando Siles in La Paz , which gives them a special kind of home advantage: the stadium is located around 3,600 meters above sea level. Many away teams have problems with the low air pressure because they arrive only a few days in advance, which is too short for complete acclimatization , while the local players usually had several weeks to adapt to the conditions - but the advantage is no longer as great as in earlier years, as many Bolivian national players are now arriving from the lowlands just before the game.

On May 27, 2007, FIFA decided to ban official games in stadiums above 2,500 meters above sea level. In Bolivia, the stadiums in La Paz , Cochabamba , Sucre , Potosí and Oruro were affected. After violent protests, however, the altitude limit was changed to 3,000 meters in June 2007, and a special permit for La Paz (3,600 meters) was later issued.

On April 1, 2009, the Bolivian national team achieved a historic 6-1 victory in the World Cup qualifier against Argentina, which is much more likely to be assessed .

Participation in football tournaments

Participation in soccer world championships

Bolivia has so far only been able to qualify for a World Cup finals. In the first final round you took part by invitation, in 1950 because Argentina did not take part.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	Preliminary round	Yugoslavia , Brazil	12.	Ulises Saucedo	The game against Yugoslavia was the first against a European team. Bolivia had also not played against Brazil before.
1934	Italy	not participated
1938	France	not participated
1950	Brazil	Preliminary round	Uruguay	13.	Mario Pretto	1 game only
1954	Switzerland	Registration refused by FIFA
1958	Sweden	not qualified				In the qualification of Argentina failed
1962	Chile	not qualified				In the qualification of Uruguay failed
1966	England	not qualified				In the qualification of Argentina failed
1970	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification of Peru failed
1974	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification of Argentina failed
1978	Argentina	not qualified				In the qualification of Brazil and Peru failed
1982	Spain	not qualified				In the qualification of Brazil failed
1986	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification of Brazil failed
1990	Italy	not qualified				In the qualification of Uruguay failed
1994	United States	Preliminary round	Germany , South Korea , Spain	21st	Xabier Azkargorta	0: 1 in the opening game against reigning world champions Germany.
1998	France	not qualified				In the South American qualification , which was held for the first time in the league system between the South American applicants - with the exception of Brazil, which was directly qualified as world champion - Bolivia only finished 8th. The first four could qualify.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the South America qualification , which was again played in the league system, Bolivia only finished 7th. The first four were able to qualify, Uruguay fifth in the play-offs against Australia .
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the South America qualification , Bolivia only finished 10th and last. The first four were able to qualify directly, Uruguay in fifth this time failed in the play-offs against Australia .
2010	South Africa	not qualified				In the South America qualification , Bolivia only finished 9th, while Argentina suffered one of the biggest defeats with 6: 1. The first four were able to qualify directly, Uruguay came fifth in the play-offs against Costa Rica .
2014	Brazil	not qualified				After two wins, four draws and eight defeats in the South America qualification , Bolivia had no chance to qualify on September 6, 2013.
2018	Russia	not qualified				Already after the sixth last game of the South American qualification , Bolivia had no chance to qualify.

The greatest success so far was winning the Copa America in 1963 in their own country.

Record player

Bolivia are the last CONMEBOL team to have a player appear in 100 caps. Ronald Raldes succeeded in doing this on May 28, 2018 in a 3-0 draw against the USA. 14 months earlier, on March 23, 2017, with his 94th international match, he had already replaced the long-standing record national players Luis Cristaldo and Marco Sandy .

(As of October 15, 2019)

Record player
Games	player	Period	Gates
102	Ronald Raldes	2001-2018	3
93	Luis Cristaldo	1989-2005	5
93	Marco Sandy	1993-2003	6th
89	José Milton Melgar	1980-1997	6th
88	Carlos Fernando Borja	1979-1995	1
85	Julio César Baldivieso	1991-2005	15th
85	Juan Manuel Peña	1991-2009	1
80	Miguel Rimba	1989-2000	0
77	Óscar Carmelo Sánchez	1994-2006	6th
76	Marcelo Moreno	2007-active	18th
75	Jaime Moreno	1991-2008	9
71	Marco Etcheverry	1989-2003	13

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
20th	Joaquín Botero	1999-2009	48
18th	Marcelo Moreno	2007-active	76
16	Víctor Ugarte	1947-1963	45
15th	Carlos Aragonés	1977-1981	31
15th	Julio César Baldivieso	1991-2005	85
15th	Erwin Sánchez	1989-2005	57
13	Máximo Alcócer	1957-1963	22nd
13	Marco Etcheverry	1989-2002	71
11	Juan Carlos Arce	2004 – active	70
10	Miguel Aguilar	1977-1983	34
9	Jaime Moreno	1991-2007	75
9	William Ramallo	1989-1997	36