Football World Cup 2018 / Peru

Football World Cup 2018 : Peru
Trainer	Ricardo Gareca
captain	Paolo Guerrero
Qualified as	Winner of the intercontinental playoff against New Zealand
World rankings before the tournament	11
Tournament result	Out after the preliminary round
Games won	1
Games tie	0
Games lost	2
Gates	2: 2

This article covers the Peruvian national soccer team at the 2018 World Cup . Peru was the last team to qualify through the intercontinental playoffs against New Zealand. The team took part for the fifth time and of the former qualified World Cup participants is the one who has not been there the longest. Most recently, Peru qualified for the 1982 World Cup.

qualification

The team ultimately qualified via the intercontinental playoffs after the team had finished fifth in the qualification of the South American football association CONMEBOL .

Games

The Peruvians have been trained by the Argentine Ricardo Gareca since March 2015 . As a player, with his goal to make it 2-2 in the final group match of the qualification between Argentina and Peru, this ensured that Peru missed the direct qualification for the 1986 World Cup.

Peru had to qualify in the qualification against the other nine South American CONMEBOL members in an everyone against everyone round with home and away games. The first four teams could qualify directly and the fifth best team via the intercontinental playoffs against the winner of the Oceania qualification. Peru won seven of the 18 qualifying games (including one game scored at the green table), drew five times and lost six games. This put them in fifth place, the best placement for the Peruvians since qualifying for the 1998 World Cup, when they had also taken fifth place, which at that time did not qualify for the finals, nor for any playoff games, as it was automatically for the World Cup qualified world champion Brazil, who did not take part in the qualification, could only drive the first four of the qualification to the finals.

In fifth place, the Peruvians met New Zealand in two playoff games, the winner of the qualification for the Oceanic Football Association OFC . After a goalless draw in the away game, the home game was won 2-0 and a World Cup ticket was booked again after 36 years.

A total of 42 players were used in the 20 games, six of them only once, of which Adrian Zela was only used in the last game. No player was used in all games. Christian Cueva played 18 games after being forced to take a break in the third game after the red card in the second game. Paolo Guerrero was used 17 times , including ten times as captain. He had taken over from Claudio Pizarro , who was last installed on March 29, 2016. Guerrero could not be used in the playoff games against New Zealand because he was suspended from FIFA on November 3, 2017 with a 30-day ban. This was imposed on the basis of a “deviating analysis result” of the urine sample after the qualifying game on October 5th in Argentina. In December, FIFA suspended Guerrero for a year, so that initially participation in the World Cup was not possible. In December the ban was reduced to six months, so that participation in the World Cup is possible.

Guerrero was also the Peruvians' top scorer with five goals together with Édison Flores . A total of nine Peruvians have shot their way into the list of goalscorers, and they also benefited from an own goal each by a Colombian and a player from Paraguay. The table also includes three goals awarded at the green table, as FIFA converted the original 2-0 defeat to Bolivia into a 3-0 win. Bolivia used the ineligible player Nelson Cabrera against Peru on September 1, 2016 and against Chile (0-0) on September 6, 2016.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Peru
08/10/2015	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Peru	2: 0 (1: 0)
13/10/2015	Lima	Peru	-	Chile	3: 4 (2: 3)	Jefferson Farfán (10th, 35th / penalty), Paolo Guerrero (90th + 2)
11/13/2015	Lima	Peru	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (1: 0)	Jefferson Farfán (19.)
11/17/2015	Salvador	Brazil	-	Peru	3: 0 (1: 0)
March 24, 2016	Lima	Peru	-	Venezuela	2: 2 (0: 1)	Paolo Guerrero (60th), Raúl Ruidíaz (90th + 3)
03/29/2016	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Peru	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/01/2016	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Peru	0: 3 (value.) 1
09/06/2016	Lima	Peru	-	Ecuador	2: 1 (1: 1)	Christian Cueva (19th / penalty), Renato Tapia (78th)
10/06/2016	Lima	Peru	-	Argentina	2: 2 (0: 1)	Paolo Guerrero (57th), Christian Cueva (83th / penalty)
10/11/2016	Santiago de Chile	Chile	-	Peru	2: 1 (1: 0)	Édison Flores (75.)
11/10/2016	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Peru	1: 4 (1: 0)	Christian Ramos (49th), Édison Flores (71th), Christian Cueva (79th), Paraguay own goal (84th)
11/15/2016	Lima	Peru	-	Brazil	0: 2 (0: 0)
03/23/2017	Maturín	Venezuela	-	Peru	2: 2 (1: 0)	Andre Carrillo (46.), Paolo Guerrero (64.)
03/28/2017	Lima	Peru	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (1: 1)	Paolo Guerrero (34.), Édison Flores (62.)
08/31/2017	Lima	Peru	-	Bolivia	2: 1 (0: 0)	Édison Flores (55th), Christian Cueva (58th)
05.09.2017	Quito	Ecuador	-	Peru	1: 2 (0: 0)	Édison Flores (71.), Paolo Hurtado (75.)
05.10.2017	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Peru	0-0
10/10/2017	Lima	Peru	-	Colombia	1: 1 (0: 0)	Own goal Colombia (77.)

¹Since Bolivia used the ineligible player Nelson Cabrera twice, against Peru (2-0) on September 1, 2016 and against Chile (0-0) on September 6, 2016, FIFA scored the two games on November 1, 2016 0: 3 against Bolivia. The judgment was confirmed by the CAS at the end of August 2017.

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	18th	12	5	1	041:110	+30	41
2.	Uruguay	18th	9	4th	5	032:200	+12	31
3.	Argentina	18th	7th	7th	4th	019:160	+3	28
4th	Colombia	18th	7th	6th	5	021:190	+2	27
5.	Peru	18th	7th	5	6th	027:260	+1	26th
6th	Chile	18th	8th	2	8th	026:270	−1	26th
7th	Paraguay	18th	7th	3	8th	019:250	−6	24
8th.	Ecuador	18th	6th	2	10	026:290	−3	20th
9.	Bolivia	18th	4th	2	12	016:380	−22	14th
10.	Venezuela	18th	2	6th	10	019:350	−16	12

Intercontinental playoffs

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Peru
11/11/2017	Wellington	New Zealand	-	Peru	0-0
11/15/2017	Lima	Peru	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)	Jefferson Farfán (28th), Christian Ramos (65th)

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Peruvian goal scorers
March 24, 2018	2-0	Croatia	Miami Gardens ( USA )	André Carrillo (12th), Édison Flores (48th)
March 27, 2018	3: 1	Iceland	Harrison ( USA )	Renato Tapia (3rd), Raúl Ruidíaz (58th), Jefferson Farfán (75th)
29 May 2018	2-0	Scotland	Lima	Christian Cueva (37th / penalty), Jefferson Farfán (47th)
3rd June 2018	3-0	Saudi Arabia	St. Gallen ( CHE )	André Carrillo (20th), Paolo Guerrero (41st, 64th)
June 9, 2018	0-0	Sweden	Gothenburg

Remarks:

• Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup

Quarter

The team's quarters will be the Sheraton Sheremetyevo in Moscow , where the team will train in the Khimki arena .

Squad

Paolo Guerrero was also named in the provisional squad, but his doping ban was not lifted and then canceled. At the end of May, the CAS had no objections to Guerrero's request for suspension of the ban, so that he can still take part in the World Cup and was included in the final squad. Luis Abram and Sergio Peña then failed to make it into the final squad.

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goal	12	Carlos Cáceda	09/27/1991	6th	0	Deportivo Municipal	2016	28.03.2018
	21st	José Carvallo	03/01/1986	6th	0	Club Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca	2012	05/29/2018
	01	Pedro Gallese	02/23/1990	39	0	CD Veracruz	2014	06/09/2018	3
Defense	17th	Luis Advíncula	02.03.1990	66	0	Lobos de la BUAP	2010	06/09/2018	3
	05	Miguel Araujo	October 24, 1994	8th	0	Alianza Lima M *	2014	06/03/2018
	03	Aldo Corzo	05/20/1989	25th	0	Universitario de Deportes	2009	06/03/2018
	22nd	Nilson Loyola	10/26/1994	3	0	FBC Melgar	2016	06/14/2017
	15th	Christian Ramos	04/11/1988	68	3	CD Veracruz	2009	06/09/2018	3
	02	Alberto Rodríguez	March 31, 1984	74	0	Atlético Junior	2007	06/09/2018	2
	04th	Anderson Santamaría	01/10/1992	6th	3	Puebla FC	2014	06/09/2018	2
	06th	Miguel Trauco	08/25/1992	26th	3	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	2014	06/09/2018	3
midfield	23	Pedro Aquino	04/13/1995	12	0	Lobos de la BUAP	2016	06/09/2018	3		1
	16	Wild Cartagena	09/23/1994	3	0	CD Veracruz	2017	05/29/2018
	08th	Christian Cueva	11/23/1991	46	9	Sao Paulo FC	2011	06/09/2018	3
	20th	Edison Flores	05/15/1994	30th	9	Aalborg BK	2013	06/09/2018	3
	07th	Paolo Hurtado	07/27/1990	33	3	Vitória Guimarães	2011	06/03/2018	1
	14th	Andy Polo	09/29/1994	17th	1	Portland Timbers	2016	06/09/2018
	13	Renato Tapia	07/28/1995	32	3	Feyenoord Rotterdam P	2015	06/09/2018	2		1
	19th	Yoshimar Yotun	04/07/1990	73	2	Orlando City	2011	06/09/2018	3		1
Storm	18th	André Carrillo	06/14/1991	46	4th	Watford FC	2011	06/09/2018	3	1
	10	Jefferson Farfan	10/26/1984	84	25th	Locomotive Moscow M	2004	06/09/2018	2
	09	Paolo Guerrero	01/01/1984	88	35	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	2004	06/09/2018	3	1	1
	11	Raúl Ruidíaz	July 25, 1990	29	4th	Monarcas Morelia	2011	05/29/2018	2
Trainer		Ricardo Gareca	02/10/1958	20th	5		2015
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ a b Status: June 9, 2018, after the game against Sweden, sources: Kicker special edition WM 2018 ↑ M = champions in the World Cup year, P = cup winners in the World Cup year, M * = champions in the previous year (current season runs until autumn) ↑ a b As a player for Argentina

Finals

Group draw

Saransk Sochi Ekaterinburg Moscow

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Peruvian team

For the draw for the qualification groups on December 1, Peru, which had climbed to 10th place in the FIFA world rankings in October 2017 through the last qualifying matches, was assigned to Pot 2. In Group C, the team will face ex-world champions France , Denmark and Asian champions Australia .

There was only a friendly against France before, which was won 1-0 in Paris in 1982 . Peru had never played against the Danish senior team, but there was a game against the Danish league selection in the 1997 US Cup, which was lost 2-1. Peru had not yet played against Australia either.

Peru had never played in Russia before.

Group stage / group C matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	07th
2.	Denmark	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
3.	Peru	3	1	0	2	002: 200	± 0	03
4th	Australia	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01

Sat, June 16, 2018, 7:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk
Peru	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 0)
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 8:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Yekaterinburg
France	-	Peru	1: 0 (1: 0)
Tue., June 26, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Australia	-	Peru	0: 2 (0: 1)	18. ' Carrillo , 50.' Guerrero

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Gareca - from bogeyman to hero
2. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Disciplinary Committee imposes one-year ban on Paolo Guerrero
3. ↑ weltfussball.de: FIFA reduces doping ban for Paolo Guerrero
4. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Appeal Committee shortens the ban on Paolo Guerrero to six months
5. ↑ Sanction against Bolivia for using a player who is not eligible to play. In: fifa.com. FIFA , November 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Sanction against Bolivia for using a player who is not eligible to play. In: fifa.com. FIFA , November 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 . 
7. ↑ CAS confirms sanction against Bolivia for using a player who is not eligible to play. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 31, 2017, accessed September 1, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Scotland used seven players, for whom this was the first international match. Only two players had more than 10 caps ( Peru 2-0 Scotland )
9. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
10. ↑ prensa.com: Perú envía a FIFA lista preliminar para Mundial de Rusia-2018
11. ↑ marca.com: El TAS amplía la sanción de Paolo Guerrero y lo deja sin Mundial
12. ↑ kicker.de: "Guerrero's redemption:" No dreams are impossible ""
13. ↑ fifa.com: Peru climbs and dreams on