Soccer in Peru

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The national stadium after its renovation completed in 2011

The football in Peru was in the late 19th century by British businessmen in the port city of Callao introduced and soon reached the immediately adjacent capital Lima . There, in 1896, Ciclista Lima, the first major football club in Peru, was founded.

history

In 1912 a soccer championship was held for the first time, but it was limited to clubs from the metropolitan area of ​​Callao and Lima. The first winner was the Lima Cricket team , which won the title again in 1914. In 1918 and 1919 the regional championship was won by Sport Alianza , which was founded in 1901 and is still one of the leading clubs in the country. Alianza will play the “Game of the Year” in Peru today against city ​​rivals and record champions Universitario de Deportes . While Alianza was predominantly characterized by mestizos from the slums in the early days , the Club Universitario, founded in 1924, was traditionally associated with the higher educated class.

The professional football was introduced in 1951, but remained limited to clubs from Lima and neighboring towns. Teams from all parts of the country have only been able to take part in the Peruvian football championship since 1966 .

Competitions

The most important competition in Peruvian club football is the Primera Division , the top division in Peru. 17 teams take part in the league . Two cup competitions are also held in Peru, the Copa Inca and the Copa Peru . At the Copa Inca, also known as Torneo del Inca, 18 clubs take part, which only compete in three groups of six. The first group and the best second-placed team play the winner of the competition in knockout games . 16 clubs take part in the Copa Peru. KO games reduce the field of participants to four teams. These play the winner of the Copa Peru in a league.

Greatest successes in international football

societies

So far, no Peruvian club has triumphed in the Copa Libertadores , the most important club competition in South America . Peruvian clubs reached the finals twice: Universitario de Deportes failed in 1972 against Independiente (0-0, 1-2) and the third major club from Lima, Sporting Cristal , in 1997 with 0-0 and 0-1 against Cruzeiro . Thus, of all things, the "provincial club" Cienciano from Cusco is the only Peruvian club that was successful in a South American soccer competition for club teams. He won the Copa Sudamericana in 2003 by beating Argentina's record champions River Plate in the final .

National team

Teófilo Cubillas is considered to be probably the best Peruvian footballer of all time

The Peruvian national team first took part in the Campeonato Sudamericana, the forerunner of today's Copa América , in 1927 when they first hosted this event and finished the tournament in third place (out of four participants). The team recorded their first tournament victory in 1939 , when the competition was also held in Peru. All four matches were won: 5: 2 against Ecuador , 3: 1 against Chile , 3: 0 against Paraguay and the decisive last game with 2: 1 against Uruguay , which had also won three times.

In 1975 , when the Copa America was played for the first time and Peru played host again, the national team won their second and so far last title. After winning the preliminary group, they eliminated Brazil in the semifinals and beat Colombia in the final .

The national team took part in a soccer world championship four times . While she was eliminated in the preliminary round at the very first event in 1930 and at her last participation in 1982 , she only failed in her two other participations in a later round. In 1970 , when she was able to prevail against Argentina in qualifying , she lost in the quarter-finals to eventual world champions Brazil (2-4) and in 1978 she won (for the only time so far) the preliminary group in front of the eventual runner-up in the Netherlands , but lost in the second round all games: a 0: 3 against Brazil was followed by a 0: 1 against Poland and a 0: 6 against the hosts and eventual world champions Argentina. This defeat had far-reaching consequences in world football; Because Argentina reached the final with this big win due to the better goal difference against the Brazilians tied on points and both games were staggered - so Argentina, who played later, knew the result they needed to reach the final - the decisive final group games have always taken place at the same time since then .

The successes of the Peruvian national team in the 1970s are closely linked to Teófilo Cubillas , who is considered to be arguably the best Peruvian player of all time. Together with Miroslav Klose and Thomas Müller, he is the only soccer player to date to have scored at least five goals in two World Cups. He was also named South America's Footballer of the Year in 1972. He is the only Peruvian soccer player to have received this honor.

The home stadium of the Peruvian national team is the Estadio National Lima .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radovan Jelinek, Jiri Tomes, u. a .: Football World Atlas . Copress Verlag, Munich 2001, p. 130, ISBN 3-7679-0651-1
  2. ^ Peru - List of Champions at RSSSF
  3. ↑ Primera División 2017 results - FlashScore.com (ResultsLive.com). Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Copa Inca 2015 results - FlashScore.com (ResultsLive.com). Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Copa Peru 2016 results - FlashScore.com (ResultsLive.com). Retrieved July 7, 2017 .