Football World Cup 2018 / Colombia

Football World Cup 2018 : Colombia
Trainer	José Pékerman
captain	Falcao
Qualified as	Fourth in the South American qualification
World rankings before the tournament	16
Tournament result	Out in the round of 16
Games won	2
Games tie	0
Games lost	2
Gates	8: 6

This article covers the Colombian national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Colombia could only qualify on the last day of the South American qualification. The team took part for the sixth time. At the last World Cup, Colombia had reached the quarter-finals for the first time and set the top scorer.

qualification

The team qualified through the qualification of the South American football association CONMEBOL .

Games

James , Colombia's top scorer in qualifying

In qualifying, Colombia continued to rely on the Argentine José Pékerman , who had already led the team to the previous World Cup and to the quarter-finals there. The Colombians started with a 2-0 home win in Barranquilla , where they played all their home games, against Peru. After that, they couldn't win three times and only get one point. In 2016 they won the first three games, but then lost in Brazil. A 1-0 win in Paraguay, which only fell in stoppage time, was followed by two draws against Uruguay and Chile and a defeat in Argentina. In 2017 they started with two wins and after two draws against Venezuela and the already qualified Brazilians on the penultimate matchday with a home win against Paraguay, they could have booked the World Cup ticket. In the 80th minute, Falcao gave the Colombians the lead, but eight minutes later Paraguay was able to equalize and turn the game around completely in stoppage time, which brought Paraguay back into the race for one of the World Cup tickets. This means that the direct qualification for Colombia was missed and on the last day of the match six teams were still fighting for three direct World Cup tickets. Colombia ultimately qualified with a 1-1 draw in Peru, with James putting his team in the lead in the 55th minute, while goalkeeper David Ospina made things exciting again 22 minutes later with an own goal. In the end it stayed at 1: 1 and since Chile lost in Brazil and Paraguay at home to bottom group Venezuela, this draw was enough for direct qualification. For Peru the draw meant fifth place and thus the way through the intercontinental playoffs, in which they were the last team to qualify for the World Cup against New Zealand. With a defeat by one goal difference, Colombia would have had to go to the playoffs and Peru would have qualified directly, with three goals difference only sixth place would have jumped out.

A total of 45 players were used in the 18 games, ten of them only once. Only goalkeeper David Ospina was used in all games and did not miss a minute. Carlos Sánchez , who had to pause after the second yellow card, played 15 games , Edwin Cardona and Juan Cuadrado , who were forced to pause once after a red card - received in stoppage time in the 3-0 draw against Uruguay - and once after the second yellow card had to. The top scorer was James, the top scorer of the last World Cup, with six goals, but due to injury he was only used in thirteen games. Record scorer Falcao only appeared in eight games in which he scored two goals. A total of ten players scored the goals for Colombia, and they also benefited from an own goal by a Brazilian player, but this did not affect the result.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Colombia
08/10/2015	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Peru	2: 0 (1: 0)	Teófilo Gutiérrez (35th), Edwin Cardona (90th + 4)
13/10/2015	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Colombia	3: 0 (1: 0)
11/12/2015	Santiago de Chile	Chile	-	Colombia	1: 1 (1: 0)	James (67.)
11/17/2015	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Argentina	0: 1 (0: 1)
March 24, 2016	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Colombia	2: 3 (0: 2)	James (9th), Carlos Bacca (40th), Edwin Cardona (90th + 1)
03/29/2016	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Ecuador	3: 1 (1: 0)	Carlos Bacca (7th, 66th), Sebastián Pérez (48th)
09/01/2016	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Venezuela	2: 0 (1: 0)	James (46.), Macnelly Torres (80.)
09/06/2016	Manaus	Brazil	-	Colombia	2: 1 (1: 1)	Own goal Brazil
10/06/2016	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Colombia	0: 1 (0: 0)	Edwin Cardona (90th + 2)
10/11/2016	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Uruguay	2: 2 (1: 1)	Abel Aguilar (16.), Yerry Mina (85.)
11/10/2016	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Chile	0-0
11/15/2016	San Juan	Argentina	-	Colombia	3: 0 (2: 0)
03/23/2017	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Bolivia	1: 0 (0: 0)	James (83.)
03/28/2017	Quito	Ecuador	-	Colombia	0: 2 (0: 2)	James (20th), Juan Cuadrado (34.)
08/31/2017	San Cristobal	Venezuela	-	Colombia	0-0
05.09.2017	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Brazil	1: 1 (0: 1)	Falcao (56.)
05.10.2017	Barranquilla	Colombia	-	Paraguay	1: 2 (0: 0)	Falcao (80.)
10/10/2017	Lima	Peru	-	Colombia	1: 1 (0: 0)	James (55.)

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

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Colombian goal scorers
November 10, 2017	1: 2	South Korea	Suwon	Cristián Zapata (76.)
November 14, 2017	4-0	People's Republic of China	Chongqing	Édgar Pardo (6th), Carlos Bacca (61st), Miguel Borja (66th, 90th + 1)
23 March 2018	3: 2	France	Saint-Denis	Luis Muriel (28th), Falcao (62nd), Juan Quintero (85th / penalty)
March 27, 2018	0-0	Australia	London ( GBR )
June 1, 2018	0-0	Egypt	Bergamo ( ITA )

Note: Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup.

Quarter

The team's quarters were the “Ski Resort Kazan” in Kazan , where the team trained in the Sviyaga Stadium.

Squad

A preliminary roster with 35 players was named on May. Iván Arboleda (goal), Edwin Cardona , Yimmi Chará , Gustavo Cuéllar , Farid Díaz , Bernardo Espinosa , Teófilo Gutiérrez , Stefan Medina , Giovanni Moreno , Sebastián Pérez , William Tesillo and Duván Zapata were deleted from the provisional squad . Frank Fabra fell out due to a torn cruciate ligament. and was replaced by Farid Díaz .

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	01	David Ospina	08/31/1988	086	00	Arsenal FC	2007	06/01/2018	4th					2014	5	0
	22nd	José Fernando Cuadrado	06/01/1985	001	00	Once Caldas	2017	11/14/2017
	12	Camilo Vargas	03/09/1989	005	00	Deportivo Cali	2014	06/13/2017						2014	0
Defense	04th	Santiago Arias	01/13/1992	041	00	PSV Eindhoven M	2013	06/01/2018	4th		1				3	0
	18th	Farid Díaz	07/20/1983	013	00	Olimpia Asuncion	2016	03/28/2017
	13	Yerry Mina	09/23/1994	012	03	FC Barcelona M, P	2016	06/01/2018	3	3
	17th	Johan Mojica	08/21/1992	004th	01	FC Girona	2015	06/01/2018	4th		1
	03	Óscar Murillo	04/18/1988	013	00	CF Pachuca	2016	06/01/2018	1
	23	Davinson Sánchez	06/12/1996	009	00	Tottenham Hotspur	2017	06/01/2018	4th
	02	Cristian Zapata	09/30/1986	056	02	AC Milan	2007	03/27/2018	1					2014	4th	0
midfield	08th	Abel Aguilar	01/06/1985	071	07th	Deportivo Cali	2004	03/27/2018	1					2014	3	0
	05	Wílmar Barrios	10/16/1993	010	00	Boca Juniors M	2016	03/27/2018	2		2
	11	Juan Cuadrado	May 26, 1988	070	07th	Juventus Turin D.	2010	06/01/2018	4th	1	1			2014	5	1
	16	Jefferson Lerma	10/25/1994	005	00	Levante UD	2017	06/01/2018	4th
	20th	Juan Quintero	01/18/1993	015th	02	CA River Plate	2012	06/01/2018	4th	1				2014	3	1
	10	James	07/12/1991	063	21st	FC Bayern Munich M	2011	06/01/2018	3		1			2014	5	6th
	06th	Carlos Sánchez	02/06/1986	085	00	Espanyol Barcelona	2007	06/01/2018	3		1		1	2014	4th	0
	15th	Mateus Uribe	03/21/1991	008th	00	Club America	2017	06/01/2018	3
Storm	07th	Carlos Bacca	09/08/1986	045	16	Villarreal CF	2010	06/01/2018	3		1			2014	1	0
	19th	Miguel Borja	01/26/1993	009	02	Palmeiras São Paulo	2017	06/01/2018	1
	09	Falcao	02/10/1986	073	29	AS Monaco	2007	06/01/2018	4th	1	1
	21st	José Izquierdo	07/07/1992	005	01	Brighton & Hove Albion	2017	06/01/2018	1
	14th	Luis Muriel	04/16/1991	018th	02	Sevilla FC	2013	03/23/2018	2
Trainer		José Pékerman	09/03/1949				2012							2006, 2014	10
Status of appearances and goals: June 1, 2018, after the game against Egypt (Sources: Kicker special edition WM 2018, Colombia - rsssf.com: Record International Players (players with at least 20 games) , soccerway.com: Colombia )
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ M = Champion in the World Cup year, MA = Champion of the Apertura 2017, P = Cup winner in the World Cup year or 2017 ↑ With Argentina ↑ 5 games each with Argentina (2006) and Colombia (2014)

Finals

Group draw

Kazan (VR + Q) Samara (VR) Saransk (VR) Moscow (AF)

Venues and quarters (Q) of the Colombian team

For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1st, Colombia was assigned to Pot 2 and could therefore be drawn into a group with world champions Germany, European champions Portugal or host Russia. The Colombians could not be drawn to any of the four other South American teams. The team met in Group H , the only group without an ex- or current world champion, on Japan , Poland and Senegal .

The Colombians met Japan in the last group game of the previous World Cup and won 4-1. Also in the preliminary round of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup , the two faced each other in the last game and Colombia won 1-0. There was also a goalless draw in a friendly. There were only friendlies against the other two opponents: against Poland four wins, one draw and two defeats; a win and a draw against Senegal.

Colombia has not yet played in Russia. The three Colombian venues are closest to each other.

Group stage / group H matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group H

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Colombia	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
2.	Japan	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Senegal	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
4th	Poland	3	1	0	2	002: 500	−3	03
Note: Japan with four yellow cards and Senegal with six yellow cards (fair play rating)

Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 3:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk
Colombia	-	Japan	1: 2 (1: 1)	39 ′ Quintero
Sun., June 24, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Poland	-	Colombia	0: 3 (0: 1)	40 ′ Mina , 70 ′ Falcao , 75 ′ Cuadrado
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Senegal	-	Colombia	0: 1 (0: 0)	74. ′ Mina

Games of the knockout round

Tue., July 3, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Spartak Stadium)
Colombia	-	England	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 4 i. E.	90 + 3 ′ Mina

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
2. ↑ fcf.com: Lista de 35 jugadores preseleccionados para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA Rusia 2018 ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Sport1.de: World Cup 2018: Frank Fabra of Colombia suffers cruciate ligament rupture . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on June 9, 2018]).
4. ^ Juan Raul: Comunicado: lesión Frank Fabra. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 12, 2018 ; Retrieved June 9, 2018 (European Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Casa Editorial El País Cali: Farid Díaz sería el reemplazo de Frank Fabra en la Selección Colombia para el Mundial . In: elpais.com.co . ( com.co [accessed June 9, 2018]).