Peruvian national soccer team

Republic of Peru
República del Perú

Nickname (s)	La Blanquirroja La Rojiblanca
Association	Federación Peruana de Fútbol
confederacy	CONMEBOL
Technical sponsor	Marathon sports
Head coach	Ricardo Gareca (since 2015)
captain	Paolo Guerrero
Record scorer	Paolo Guerrero (36)
Record player	Roberto Palacios (128)
Home stadium	Estadio Nacional (Lima)
FIFA code	BY
FIFA rank	21. (1544 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international game Peru 0-4 Uruguay ( Lima , Peru ; November 1, 1927)
Biggest victory Peru 9-1 Ecuador ( Bogotá , Colombia ; August 11, 1938)
Biggest defeat Brazil 7-0 Peru ( La Paz , Bolivia ; June 26, 1997)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	5 ( first : 1930 )
Best results	Quarterfinals 1970
South American Championship
Participation in the finals	29 ( first : 1927 )
Best results	Winner 1939 , 1975
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals	1
Best results	Semifinals 2000
(As of November 21, 2018)

The Peruvian national football team is the selection team of the Peruvian Football Association (FPF) and represents Peru on an international level. The national team has so far participated in five soccer world championships ( 1930 , 1970 , 1978 , 1982 , 2018 ). While they failed in the preliminary round in 1930, 1982 and 2018, they reached the quarter-finals and the intermediate round in 1970 and 1978. In 1927 Peru first took part in the Copa América , which the country hosted. The first game at the Copa was also the first international match. In 1939 and 1975 Peru won the Copa America. In the last few years the quarter-finals were mostly over, but it wasn't until 2011 that the semi-finals could be reached again, in which they lost 2-0 to Uruguay . In the ensuing game for third place, Peru beat Venezuela 4-1, with Paolo Guerrero scoring three goals. Peru repeated this success at the 2015 Copa America after beating the same opponent 2-0. In 2019 , the team came back to the final of the Copa America for the first time in over forty years, which they finished as a losing team.

Peruvian footballers had their greatest period in the 1970s. The star of this team was the striker Teófilo Cubillas , who scored ten times in 13 World Cup games. Peru achieved the best placement in the FIFA world rankings, which has been held since 1993, in October 2017 after qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , after which Peru made the top ten for the first time.

history

Peru participated in five world championships. Peru delivered a special game on June 21, 1978 at the World Cup in Argentina. Peru had moved into a second final group with three other teams. After the first two games, Peru had no chance of reaching the game for third place or the final. The Argentinians and Brazilians had a tie. Brazil had already played their games and Argentina not only had to defeat Peru to reach the finals, they had to win big. Peru lost 6-0. For a long time there was suspicion that the Argentine military junta bought the victory with grain deliveries to the Peruvian state. In the book "We Were World Champions" by Ricardo Gotta , Peruvian national players report calls from their head of state and visits by dictator Jorge Videla and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to their cabin. Defender José Velazquez found it "pretty strange, there was pressure". Goalkeeper Ramón Quiroga , a native of Argentina, didn't have a good day at 6-0 and later said he was “sure that some people have taken something. We saw strange things ”. Years later, Peruvian Senator Genaro Ledesma confessed that Argentina had bought the game. In March 2007, the former 52-time national player Julio César Uribe took over as coach from Francisco Maturana . However, Uribe resigned in July 2007. His successor was José del Solar . From July 2010 to February 2014, the Uruguayan Sergio Markarián was the national coach of Peru. He was followed in March 2014 by his assistant Pablo Bengoechea . After Ricardo Gareca took over the national team in 2015, her qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Russia marked her first participation in the World Cup in 36 years. At the Copa America 2019 , Peru reached a final of an international tournament for the first time in 44 years. There they lost to Brazil 1: 3.

International competitions

Peru at the Olympics

1900 - 1928	not participated
1936 in Berlin	Quarter finals

After 1936, the senior national team no longer took part in the Olympic Games. The Olympic team only took part in 1960 , where they were eliminated in the preliminary round.

Peru at world championships

→ Main article : Peruvian national soccer team / World Cups

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	Preliminary round	Romania and Uruguay	10.	Francisco Bru
1934	Italy	withdrawn				Peru did not play for the qualifiers against Brazil .
1938	France	not participated
1950	Brazil	withdrawn				Peru did not play for the qualifiers , so Uruguay and Paraguay qualified without a fight.
1954	Switzerland	not allowed				Application filed too late
1958	Sweden	not qualified				In the qualification of Brazil failed
1962	Chile	not qualified				In the qualification of Colombia failed
1966	England	not qualified				In the qualification of Uruguay failed
1970	Mexico	Quarter finals	Brazil	7th	Valdir Pereira	The only game against Germany to date took place in the preliminary round .
1974	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification to playoff in Chile failed
1978	Argentina	Intermediate round	Brazil , Poland , Argentina	8th.	Marcos Calderon	After the 6-0 draw against Argentina, Brazil brought allegations of bribery.
1982	Spain	Preliminary round	Cameroon , Italy , Poland	20th	Tim	Peru's 5-1 win against Poland was the only game in this group that didn't end in a draw. As a result, Peru was eliminated as the bottom group.
1986	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification of Argentina failed
1990	Italy	not qualified				In the qualification of Uruguay failed
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualification of Argentina and Colombia failed
1998	France	not qualified				In the South American qualification , which was held for the first time in the league system between all South American applicants - with the exception of Brazil, which was directly qualified as world champion - Peru only finished 5th. The first four could qualify.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the South American qualification , which was held with all South American teams in the league system, Peru only finished 8th. The first four were able to qualify directly, Uruguay came fifth in the play-offs against Australia .
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the South American qualification , which was played in the league system between all South American teams, Peru only finished 9th. 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 American qualification , which was played in the league system between all South American teams, Peru only finished 10th and last. The first four were able to qualify directly, Uruguay came fifth in the play-offs against Costa Rica .
2014	Brazil	not qualified				Peru missed the qualification with a 2: 3 defeat on the third last match day against Venezuela .
2018	Russia	Preliminary round	Denmark , France , Australia		Ricardo Gareca	After two defeats against Denmark and France and one win against Australia, eliminated in third place in the group.
2022	Qatar
2026	Canada / Mexico / USA

Playing attire and jersey

The national colors of Peru are red and white. This reflects the clothing of the national team. The first jerseys were red and white with vertical stripes in the 1920s. Until 1936 this style changed several times. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, the association first presented its home jersey, which is still in use today. A white jersey with a red bar running from bottom left to top right became the recognition feature of the Peruvian national team. This look has so far been taken up by a wide variety of sporting goods manufacturers and also offered to the South American team. Besides Adidas, the best-known suppliers are Umbro and Diadora .

Record player

(As of November 21, 2018)

Record player
Games	player	Period	Gates
128	Roberto Palacios	1992-2012	19th
105	Hector Chumpitaz	1965-1981	3
101	Jorge Soto	1992-2005	9
97	Juan José Jayo	1994-2008	1
95	Nolberto Solano	1994-2009	20th
91	Paolo Guerrero	2004–	36
89	Rubén Toribio Díaz	1972-1985	2
88	Jefferson Farfan	2003–	26th
85	Claudio Pizarro	1999-2016	20th
84	Juan Reynoso	1986-2000	5
83	Percy Olivares	1987-2001	1
82	José Velásquez	1972-1985	12
82	Yoshimar Yotun	2011–	2
81	Teófilo Cubillas	1968-1982	26th
76	Christian Ramos	2009–	3
76	Alberto Rodríguez	2003–	0
75	José Soto	1992-2003	3

Record goal scorers
Gates	player	Period	Games
36	Paolo Guerrero	2004–	91
26th	Teófilo Cubillas	1968-1982	81
26th	Jefferson Farfan	2003–	88
24	Teodoro Fernández	1935-1947	32
20th	Claudio Pizarro	1999-2016	85
20th	Nolberto Solano	1994-2009	95
19th	Roberto Palacios	1992-2012	128
18th	Hugo Sotil	1970-1979	62
17th	Oswaldo Ramírez	1969-1982	57
16	Franco Navarro	1980-1989	56
15th	Pedro Pablo León	1963-1973	49
14th	Oscar Gómez Sánchez	1953-1959	26th

Current squad

The table names the players who were in the squad for the Copa America 2019 .

• Performance data as of July 7, 2019 (after the encounter against Brazil)

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut
goalkeeper
Pedro Gallese	02/23/1990	57	0	Alianza Lima	2014
Carlos Cáceda	09/27/1991	6th	0	FBC Melgar	2016
Patricio Álvarez	2401.1994	0	0	Sporting Cristal	2012
Defense
Luis Advíncula	02.03.1990	85	1	UANL Tigres	2010
Miguel Araujo	October 24, 1994	17th	0	Club Atlético Talleres	2014
Aldo Corzo	05/20/1989	29	0	Universitario de Deportes	2009
Carlos Zambrano	07/10/1989	47	4th	Dynamo Kiev	2008
Alexander Callens	05/04/1992	14th	1	New York City FC	2013
Luis Abram	02/27/1996	15th	0	CA Vélez Sarsfield	2016
Anderson Santamaría	01/11/1992	12	0	Atlas Guadalajara	2017
Miguel Trauco	08/25/1992	47	0	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	2014
midfield
Josepmir Ballón	03/21/1988	50	0	CD Universidad de Concepción	2009
Christian Cueva	11/23/1991	64	10	FC Santos	2011
Renato Tapia	07/28/1995	49	3	Feyenoord Rotterdam	2015
Edison Flores	05/14/1994	47	13	Monarcas Morelia	2013
Yoshimar Yotun	04/07/1990	91	3	CD Cruz Azul	2011
Jesús Pretell	03/26/1999	1	0	Sporting Cristal	2019
Christofer Gonzáles	10/12/1992	18th	1	Nacional Montevideo	2013
Storm
André Carrillo	06/14/1991	65	6th	Benfica Lisbon	2011
Jefferson Farfan	10/26/1984	95	27	Moscow locomotive	2003
Paolo Guerrero	01/01/1984	99	38	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro	2004
Andy Polo	09/29/1994	31	1	Portland Timbers	2016
Raúl Ruidíaz	July 25, 1990	41	4th	Seattle Sounders	2011

Trainer

(incomplete)

Name of the trainer	Period	comment
Francisco Bru	1930	• Coach at the 1930 World Cup
Jack Greenwell	1939	• Copa America winner
György Orth	1957-1959
Marcos Calderon	1965-1967
Valdir Pereira, "Didi"	1969-1970	• Coach at the 1970 World Cup
Lajos Baroti	1971-1972
Marcos Calderon	1975-1979	• Coach at the 1978 World Cup • 1975: Copa America winner
Elba de Pádua Lima, "Tim"	1980-1983	• Coach at the 1982 World Cup
José Macia, "Pepe"	1989	• Coach at the 1989 Copa America
Miguel Company	1991
Vladica Popović	1992-1993
Miguel Company	1994-1995
Juan Oblitas	1996-1999
Francisco Maturana	1999-2001
Julio César Uribe	2001-2003
Paulo Autuori	2003-2005
Freddy Tenero	2005-2007
Franco Navarro	2006
Julio César Uribe	2007
José del Solar	2007-2009
Sergio Markarian	2010-2014
Pablo Bengoechea	2014-2015
Ricardo Gareca	2015–	• Coach at the 2018 World Cup

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team	occasion
1.	August 8, 1936	Berlin ( )	Austria	2: 4 a.d.	Peru	Olympic Games , quarter-finals (result annulled)
2.	June 10, 1970	Leon ( )	Peru	1: 3	FRG	World Cup preliminary round
3.	3rd June 2014	Lucerne	Switzerland	2-0	Peru
4th	September 9, 2018	Sinsheim	Germany	2: 1	Peru

See also

• List of the international matches of the Peruvian national football team
• Soccer in South America
• Peruvian National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
• Peruvian National Football Team (U-20 Men)

Web links

Commons : Peruvian National Soccer Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• fpf.org.pe: Homepage of the Peruvian Association FPF (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Germany remains number one in the world on spox.com, October 16, 2017, accessed on November 11, 2017
3. ↑ books.google.de
4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
5. ↑ [1]
6. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
7. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Peru - Record International Players