Soccer World Cup 2011 / Colombia

This article covers the Colombian women's national soccer team at the 2011 women's soccer world championship in Germany. Colombia is currently number 31 in the FIFA world rankings and has participated in a World Cup for the first time. Colombia only played in South America until June 2011, but met Denmark , New Zealand and Wales for friendly matches in Switzerland in preparation for the World Cup . Apart from Brazil , Japan , Mexico and New Zealand , Colombia did not play any of the other World Cup participants before the World Cup.

qualification

Colombia qualified for the finals in second place in the 2010 South American Championship . With 5 goals Yoreli Rincón was the most successful goalscorer for Colombia.

The way to the World Cup

The championship took place in November 2010 in Ecuador . There was no qualification. The preliminary and final rounds were played in the league system.

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	13: 1	12
2	Colombia	17: 2	9
3	Paraguay	8: 6	6th
4th	Venezuela	5:15	3
5	Uruguay	2:21	0

November 5, 2010 in Loja
Paraguay	-	Colombia	0: 3 (0: 1)
November 9, 2010 in Azogues
Colombia	-	Venezuela	5: 0 (2: 0)
November 11, 2010 in Cuenca
Colombia	-	Brazil	1: 2 (0: 2)
November 13, 2010 in Cuenca
Uruguay	-	Colombia	0: 8 (0: 3)

Final round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	12: 1	9
2	Colombia	2: 6	4th
3	Chile	2: 4	2
4th	Argentina	0: 5	1

November 17, 2010 in Latacunga
Chile	-	Colombia	1: 1 (0: 1)
November 19, 2010 in Latacunga
Brazil	-	Colombia	5: 0 (1: 0)
November 21, 2010 in Quito
Colombia	-	Argentina	1: 0 (0: 0)

Squad

The squad for the World Cup was announced on June 9th.

Some players were also in the squad for the U-20 World Cup , in which Colombia finished fourth in 2011.

The players have an average height of 1.65 m, with Andrea Peralta being the smallest at 1.56 m and Kelis Peduzine the tallest at 1.75 m.

No.	player	Date of birth	society	International matches	International goals	WM- Sp.	Gates
goal
1	Yineth Varón	06/23/1982	Club D. Generac. Palmiranas (Valle)	02	00
12	Sandra Sepúlveda	03/03/1988	Club D. Formas Íntimas (Antioquia)	16	00	3
21st	Alexandra Velasco	08/23/1985	Club Dep. Águila Roja (Valle)	00	00
Defense
2	Yuly Muñoz	03/18/1989	Club Dep. Estudiantes FC (Tolima)	15th	01
3	Natalia Gaitán	04/03/1991	University of Toledo	05	00	3
5	Nataly Arias	04/02/1986	University of Maryland	16	03	3
8th	Andrea Peralta	05/09/1988	Club Dep. Estudiantes FC (Tolima)	27	01	1
14th	Kelis Peduzine	04/21/1983	Club Deportivo Eba (Atlántico)	23	02	3
19th	Fátima Montaño	10/02/1984	Club Dep. Águila Roja (Valle)	07th	00	2
midfield
4th	Diana Ospina	03/03/1989	Club D. Formas Íntimas (Antioquia)	07th	01	3
6th	Daniela Montoya	08/22/1990	Club D. Formas Íntimas (Antioquia)	11	01	2
9	Carmen Rodallega	07/15/1983	Club D. Carlos Sarmiento Lora (Valle)	34	06th	3
10	Yoreli Rincon	07/27/1993	Club Deportivo Gol Star (Bogotá)	14th	08th	2
11	Liana Salazar	09/16/1992	University of Kansas	13	00	2
13	Yulieth Domínguez	09/06/1993	Club Dep. Estudiantes FC (Tolima)	17th	03	3
15th	Tatiana Ariza	02/21/1991	Austin Peay State University	12	01
attack
7th	Catalina Usme	December 25, 1989	CD Indep. Medellin (Antioquia)	20th	14th	2
16	Lady Andrade	01/10/1992	Club Dep. Inter de Bogotá	08th	01	1
17th	Ingrid Vidal	04/22/1991	Club D. Generac. Palmiranas (Valle)	18th	05	2
18th	Cat Castro	11/21/1991	Club Dep. Estudiantes FC (Tolima)	09	03	3
20th	Orianica Velásquez	08/01/1989	Indiana University	13	01	2
Coaching staff
Director Técnico	Ricardo Rozo	07.09.1961	Federación Colombiana de Fútbol			3
Assistant coach	Harold Rivera Roa					3
Goalkeeping coach	Victor Rodolfo Ruiz Rivas					3
Remarks: ↑ . No and positions according squad list of FIFA Archive Link ( Memento of the original on 25 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  ↑ a b Number according to the FIFA squad list Archive link ( memento of the original from June 25, 2011 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.  ↑ Subsequent nomination for the injured Paula Forero , but suspended after a positive doping test. [1] ↑ The name of the player is spelled by the Colombian Federation sometimes with "V" [2] and sometimes with "B" [3] . In the FIFA squad list Archivlink ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. which are created after presenting the passports, it is written with "V".

preparation

In preparation for the World Cup, two test matches were played against World Cup participants Mexico. In addition, three test matches at the "Matchworld Women's Cup" took place in Switzerland in June with the other participants Denmark , World Cup participants New Zealand and Wales .

date	place	opponent	Result	particularities
April 22, 2011	Chía	Mexico	2: 3 (0: 1)	1st international match against Mexico
April 24, 2011	Chía	Mexico	2: 4 (1: 2)
June 15, 2011	Savièse ( Switzerland )	Denmark	1: 1 (0: 0) 3: 1 i. E.	1st game of Colombia outside South America
June 18, 2011	Apples ( Switzerland )	New Zealand	0: 1 (0: 0)	1st international against New Zealand
June 20, 2011	Naters ( Switzerland )	Wales	3: 1 (2: 1)	1st international match against Wales, 1st win against a European team

Group games

In Group C, the Colombians met Sweden for the first time in their international history in their very first World Cup game . Despite their superiority, the Swedes were only able to take advantage of one of their many chances in the 57th minute and score the 1-0 winner. The nervous started Colombians did not have any significant chance of scoring and had to accept their first World Cup defeat.

In the second game, Colombia met Olympic champions USA for the first time . The US girls gave the newcomer to the World Cup only one chance to score shortly before the half-time whistle, but the ball was passed too late, so that Cat Castro was offside when the game was played and the goal was not recognized. At the time it was "only" 1-0 for the USA with a goal from Heather O'Reilly , who took the ball after a stick error and shot into the corner of the goal in the 13th minute. The Americans missed many other chances, however, only in the second half did Megan Rapinoe score in the 50th and Carli Lloyd with a long-range shot, in which the Colombian goalkeeper Sandra Sepúlveda did not look good : 0 victory for the USA. Otherwise, the goalkeeper - in addition to goal posts and crossbar - played a decisive role in ensuring that the defeat was not greater. With the defeat, Colombia has already been eliminated and the last game against North Korea , the runner-up in the 2010 Asian Women's Cup, was therefore of no importance for the course of the tournament. The game ended goalless as the only preliminary round game of this World Cup and both teams are the only ones who failed to score at this World Cup.

The Vice South American champion was eliminated when he first participated in the group bottom in the preliminary round, but was the second South American team to win a point. As one of three teams, the Colombian players received neither a yellow card nor a red card in the preliminary round .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Sweden	4: 1	9
2	United States	6: 2	6th
3	North Korea	0: 3	1
4th	Colombia	0: 4	1

Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 3 p.m. in Leverkusen
Colombia	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011, 6:00 p.m. in Sinsheim
United States	-	Colombia	3: 0 (1: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Bochum
North Korea	-	Colombia	0-0

Aftermath

On August 25, 2011, FIFA suspended Yineth Varón for two years due to her doping findings.

Web links

Squad of participants of the Sudamericano Femenino 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ One of Uruguay's greatest defeats and one of Colombia's greatest victories
2. ↑ La Selección Colombia Femenina está lista para la Copa Mundial
3. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/associations/association=col/fixturesresults/gender=f/index.html
4. ↑ Selección Colombia Femenina Vencio a Dinamarca en penaltis
5. ↑ FIFA.com: Sweden kick off made-to-measure
6. ↑ FIFA.com: Decisions of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee