Venezuelan national football team
Nickname (s) | La Vinotinto | ||
Association | Federación Venezolana de Fútbol | ||
confederacy | CONMEBOL | ||
Technical sponsor | adidas | ||
Head coach | José Peseiro (since 2020) | ||
Record scorer | Salomon Rondón (30) | ||
Record player | Juan Arango (129) | ||
Home stadium | Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo | ||
FIFA code | VEN | ||
FIFA rank | 25. (1517 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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Balance sheet | |||
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408 games 102 wins 93 draws 213 defeats |
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statistics | |||
First international match Panama 3-1 Venezuela ( Panama City , Panama ; February 12, 1938)
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Biggest win Venezuela 7-0 Puerto Rico ( Caracas , Venezuela ; Jan 16, 1959)
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Biggest defeat Argentina 11-0 Venezuela ( Buenos Aires , Argentina ; 10 Aug 1975)
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Successes in tournaments | |||
South American Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 15 ( first : 1967 ) | ||
Best results | Fourth 2011 | ||
(As of November 19, 2019) |
The Venezuelan national football team represents the Venezuelan football association, the Federación Venezolana de Fútbol (FVF), which was only founded in its current form in 1951. In 1925, the first national football association, the Federación Nacional de Fútbol , was founded, but it did not last. In the years from 1932 to 1938 it was followed by the Liga Venezolana , which was replaced in 1938 by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol . It was not until the Federación Venezolana de Fútbol that it received recognition from FIFA and the Venezuelan Olympic Committee in November 1951 .
The national team, called “La Vinotinto” (“ The Wine Red ”), had little or no success until a few years ago. Football was practically only played in universities . More important sports in Venezuela are baseball and basketball .
history
Venezuela is the only CONMEBOL member who has never participated in a World Cup. Venezuela first took part in the qualification for the football World Cup in 1966 and always occupied the last group place up to and including the qualification for 1998. In 2002, 2006 and 2010 it was enough to achieve slightly better placements.
At the Copa America 1967 in Uruguay , the national team finished fifth, but only six teams took part. The Vinotinto achieved their first victory in an official tournament at 3-0 against the bottom of the tournament Bolivia on January 28, 1967. The first point win in a World Cup qualification was in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup on August 3, 1969 in Caracas with a 1 : 1 reached against the Colombian national team . A 1-0 win against Bolivia on March 22, 1981 in Caracas in qualifying for the World Cup in Spain marked the first victory in World Cup qualification. On September 4, 2001, a 2-0 win against Chile in Santiago finally achieved their first away win, which was part of a series of four victories in a row.
Several of the national team's regulars are now playing abroad. On March 31, 2004, the national team succeeded in a historic 3-0 victory in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Montevideo against the more highly rated selection of Uruguay . Yet Venezuela remains the only South American Football Association team that has never qualified for a World Cup.
In 2007 the Copa America reached the quarterfinals for the first time, where the team lost to Uruguay. In 2011 , the team reached the semi-finals for the first time, where they met Paraguay and lost in the national team's first penalty shoot-out. Venezuela also lost the game for 3rd place against Peru 4-1. Fourth place is the best so far in the Copa. As a result of this success, in July 2011, with 40th place, the team achieved the best position in the FIFA world rankings .
The senior national team never took part in the Olympic Games, a Venezuelan Olympic team took part in the 1980 Games in Moscow as a replacement for the Argentine Olympic team, but failed in the preliminary round.
A sensation for the national team was the 2-0 victory over five-time world champions Brazil on June 6, 2008.
On October 11, 2011, the team achieved their first victory against Argentina in the World Cup qualifier . This victory also helped Venezuela move up one place in the FIFA world rankings in November 2011.
Since 2011, the Venezuelan Association has been promoting foreign players with a Venezuelan background. Since the Copa America, Andrés Túñez , Fernando Amorebieta , the brothers Rolf and Frank Feltscher and Julio Álvarez have been part of the national team.
In August 2014, the team achieved their best result to date in the official FIFA world rankings with 29th place, but has now fallen back to 89th place and is now 25th (as of April 9, 2020).
Record player
(As of November 19, 2019)
Record player | |||
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Games | player | Period | Gates |
129 | Juan Arango | 1999-2015 | 23 |
115 | José Manuel Rey | 1997-2011 | 11 |
101 | Tomás Rincon | 2008 – active | 1 |
91 | Jorge Alberto Rojas | 1999-2009 | 3 |
85 | Miguel Mea Vitali | 1999-2008 | 1 |
81 | Oswaldo Vizcarrondo | 2004-2016 | 8th |
80 | Salomón Rondón | 2008 – active | 30th |
80 | Roberto Rosales | 2007 – active | 1 |
77 | Gabriel Urdaneta | 1996-2005 | 9 |
77 | Luis Vallenilla | 1996-2007 | 1 |
70 | Luis Manuel Seijas | 2006-2016 | 2 |
65 | Giancarlo Maldonado | 2003-2011 | 22nd |
65 | Ruberth Moran | 1996-2007 | 14th |
64 | Leopoldo Jiménez | 1999-2005 | 0 |
64 | Ricardo Páez | 2000-2007 | 7th |
Record shooters | |||
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Gates | player | Period | Games |
30th | Salomón Rondón | 2008 – active | 80 |
23 | Juan Arango | 1999-2015 | 129 |
22nd | Giancarlo Maldonado | 2003-2011 | 65 |
14th | Ruberth Moran | 1996-2007 | 65 |
11 | Daniel Arismendi | 2006-2011 | 31 |
11 | Nicolás Fedor | 2006-2015 | 53 |
11 | Josef Martínez | 2011 – active | 51 |
11 | José Manuel Rey | 1997-2011 | 115 |
9 | Gabriel Urdaneta | 1996-2005 | 77 |
8th | Oswaldo Vizcarrondo | 2004-2016 | 81 |
7th | Juan Enrique García | 1993-2009 | 49 |
7th | Ricardo Páez | 2000-2007 | 64 |
6th | José Luis Dolgetta | 1993-1997 | 21st |
6th | Darwin Machis | 2011 – active | 22nd |
6th | Romulo Otero | 2013 – active | 35 |
List of coaches
- Rafael Franco (1965-1967)
- Gregorio Gómez (1967–1972)
- Francisco Hormazábal (1972–1974)
- Rudi Gutendorf (1974)
- Richard Páez (1974-1975)
- César Farías (1975)
- Dan Georgiadis (1975-1977)
- Walter Róque (1978–1985)
- Hippolyte Van den Bosch (1986–1989)
- Rafael Santana (1989)
- Carlos Horacio Moreno (1989–1990)
- Víctor Pignanelli (1990-1992)
- Ratomir Dujković (1992–1995)
- Rafael Santana (1996)
- Eduardo Borrero (1997-1998)
- José Omar Pastoriza (1998-2000)
- Richard Páez (2001-2007)
- César Farías (2007-2013)
- Manuel Plasencia (2014) (interim trainer)
- Noel Sanvicente (2014-2016)
- Rafael Dudamel (2016-2020)
- José Peseiro (since 2020)
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | September 2, 2006 | Basel | Switzerland | 1-0 | Venezuela |
2. | September 6, 2006 | Basel ( ) | Venezuela | 1-0 | Austria |
Venezuela is the only CONMEBOL member against whom Germany has not yet played an international match. There has not yet been a match against Liechtenstein either.
See also
- List of the international matches of the Venezuelan national football team
- Venezuelan National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
- Venezuelan national football team (U-20 men)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ FIFA.com: Uruguay set historic results
- ↑ FIFA.com: Germany presses the Netherlands (report on world rankings update)
- ↑ Men's world rankings
- ↑ Note: FIFA counts the games against Denmark on January 27, 1999, Mexico's U-23 on March 22, 2000, Cameroon's U-21 on January 13, 2002, Morocco's U-23 on March 3, 2002 and South Africa's U-21 on May 23, 2004. The Danish Association declared the game an unofficial game on January 27, 1999. Danmark - Venezuela 1 - 1 For some of the players listed here, e.g. B. Rey, FIFA comes to different numbers. In the match report for the game against Bolivia on June 7, 2013, the Venezuelan Association reported that Arango broke Rey's record with 116 games. Venezuela empató 1-1 con Bolivia en La Paz
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: Venezuela - Record International Players (as of November 19, 2019, last updated on April 30, 2020)