The is controlled by the
Federación Peruana De Fútbol (FPF) and represents
Peru in international
Football competitions. It competes with nine other teams in the
CONMEBOL conference within
FIFA .
Peru has had great moments in the history of this football ever since the 1930s. During this era they participated in the first
FIFA World Cup , the controversial
1936 Summer Olympics , and won their first
Copa América in 1939. Later, between 1970 and 1982, a Golden Generation of Peruvian footballers once more brought Peru into the view of the world.
Teofilo Cubillas was the star of the side (scoring five goals in two different finals), and his attacking flair and skill became synonymous for the world with Peru's football team in the 1970s. The team then qualified for three out of four FIFA World Cups and won the
Copa América in 1975.
Currently, the Peruvian team is usually rated around the 50th spot in FIFA rankings. Recent efforts to reach the World Cup have been unsuccessful six times in a row. Even so, various Peruvian players have achieved notoriety, among them,
Jefferson Farfan ,
Nolberto Solano ,
Claudio Pizarro , and
Jose Paolo Guerrero , all of them important players in their respective teams.
English sailors introduced football to Peru in the late 19th century during their frequent calls at the port of
Callao . The sport extended to
Lima where several clubs and teams were formed for its practice in the early 20th century. Soon, most Peruvian cities had their own football leagues, the most important of which were those of Lima,
Cusco and
Arequipa . Native
Criollo and foreigner teams soon developed a rivalry, later replaced by the rivalry between teams from Lima and Callao. This games popularized in Peru a move known as "
Chalaca ."
In 1927, Peru for the first time united the best players of the Peruvian Football League (At that time having players from only Lima and Callao) to play in the South American Championship. The first game the Peruvian team officially played was thus played during this championship against a Uruguay that had recently won the Olympics. Peru's team lost 4-0 in their first match. Nevertheless, the team's first victory was gained a few days later (In the same stadium) against Bolivia (-0). This begun the first best moments of Peruvian football.
The rising popularity of football in Peru, led to its participation in the first FIFA World Cup at Uruguay. The Peruvian team's first match gave the World Cup its first player dismissed, Plácido Galindo. Peru was able to tie Romania's early lead, but was not able to sustain due to the one-man advantage Romania had. Later, against the match against Uruguay, Peru played a formidable game but lost 1-0 against the hosts.
Further improving its game, Peru won their first Copa America. The early years of Peru's football history went quite well, and the team itself was able to build its game due to the increasing competition
CONMEBOL has always been known for.
After making their FIFA World Cup debut at Uruguay
1930 , Peru next made an impact on the finals at
Mexico 1970 where they beat
Bulgaria and
Morocco to start off the tournament with a surprising bang. The Brazil of
Rivelino ,
Tostao ,
Jairzinho and
Pelé put an end to that adventure 4-2 in the quarter-finals. The World cup of
Argentina 1978 saw Peru end up first in their group during the first phase of the tournament, but they were later eliminated after losing all their games in the second phase. Their last World Cup appearance was in that of
Spain 1982 , a tournament in which Peru was viewed as a favorite. Yet, the problem came when the team basically trained too much and were tired even before the tournament had begun. They were eliminated last in their group, with 2 ties and 1 loss.
In . As an anecdote, the game Peru played against Uruguay inaugurated the historic
Estadio Centenario of
Montevideo . Among the important figures of notable mention composing the Peruvian team were the goalie
Juan Valdivieso , the defense
Mario De Las Casas , whom would later found the club
Universitario De Deportes and the forward and idol of
Alianza Lima ,
Alejandro Villanueva .
The tale to
Mexico 1970 begins from the qualification game played against Argentina in their "mythical" stadium of "
La Bombonera ." Previously, Peru had beaten Argentina and Bolivia in Lima. At La Paz, Bolivia beat Peru. Thus, Peru only needed a tie to qualify for the World Cup. Peru played one of their best games that day, and were capable to tie the game 2:2 and qualified for the World Cup to be played at Mexico.
Those who stood out in this team were
Roberto Challe ,
Alberto Gallardo ,
Orlando De La Torre ,
Teófilo Cubillas ,
Pedro "Perico" Leon , Nicolás Fuentes, and the idol that would be known as the "Captain of America,"
Héctor Chumpitaz . Afterwards, for the World Cup, the "Cholo"
Hugo Sotil joined the team.
Peru entered the tournament in Group 4, and played against Bulgaria (3:2 victory), Morocco (3:0 victory), and Germany (3:1 loss). In the match against Bulgaria, the "Nene" Cubillas marked his first goal. Right now, he is the 6th greatest goal scorer of the World Cups at 10 marks in 3 participations.
Once in the quarterfinals, Peru faced the Brazil of , considers it the best. Peru's historic head coach was the Brazilian
Valdir Pereira , whom greatly lamented playing against his own country but certainly put up a great fight.
As an anecdote to this World Cup, Peru had faced one of their worst earthquakes in history while the team was in Mexico. Several people died, and one whole city was wiped from the face of the earth. Due to this, the team was quite saddened and showed a deplorable first-half against Bulgaria (Losing 2 to nothing). The tale goes on to say that someone uttered: "With this game they're killing those who survived the earthquake back in Peru." True or false, Peru was capable to turn the game back around and beat Bulgaria. Futbolperuano.com
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August 21 ,
2007
The
Argentina 1978 finals also saw Peru finish first in its opening group, as they managed to beat
Scotland and
Iran , then drew with the eventual finalist, the
Netherlands .
Once into the second round in 1978 - a second group stage - they did not live up to their promise, falling rather dismally to Brazil,
Poland , and Argentina without scoring a goal.
By
Spain 1982 the team's performance declined as the team fell at the opening hurdle, drawing with
Cameroon and
Italy before getting crushed by Poland 5-1. Previously, though, Peru was viewed as a favorite and a good candidate to advance into the next phase.
The problem was that Peru had previously been doing several practice matches, all of which re-assured to the public that Peru would do well in the World Cup. Yet, Peru trained too much and by the time the World Cup begun, the team was completely exhausted.
Peru almost qualified to
Mexico 1986 once more eliminating Argentina. Yet, for this
Qualifier game, they were to face the Argentina of Maradona. At first, Peru was achieving a victory at Buenos Aires, but
Diego Armando Maradona was able to tie the game and qualify Argentina into the World Cup they would later win.
Peru was thus forced to face Chile for elimination, and they lost 4-2 on Santiago and 1-0 on Lima. This was to be Peru's last closest chance of qualifying until 1998.
Peru was grouped for the
Qualification along with Bolivia and Uruguay. Every single game was lost, and only two goals were scored (One by
Jose Del Solar and the other by Andres Gonzales).
Julio Cesar Uribe was considered one of the best players of the team at that moment.
The
Campaign to reach
France 1998 was thwarted only by the goal difference tiebreaker, as they finished even on points with
Chile . The qualifying system had changed and now all teams were to face each other, and Peru had been able to maintain the 4th spot until the next-to-last match when they faced Chile at Santiago. The game was quite humiliating, specially due to the aggressions the Peruvian team faced from the Chileans. As far as it currently goes, this is currently Peru's last closest chance to qualifying.
The
Preliminaries for
Korea/Japan 2002 were certainly not any respite from that, as the team finished eighth in the group with just four wins in eighteen matches. The fact that they only managed to score 14 goals demonstrated how far the attack had fallen since the days of Cubillas. Particularly low points of the qualifying tournament included a 3-0 loss at
Venezuela and defeats in over half of their home matches to
Uruguay ,
Ecuador ,
Argentina ,
Colombia and
Brazil .
During the years of 2004 and 2005, Peru participated in the
Qualifier for the
Germany 2006 World Cup. Peru this time hit the ground hard as conflicts with the team's management soon showed poor results in the games that were to follow.
Paulo Autuori managed the squad, but was not able to achieve popularity due to a disastrous campaign that led Peru into 8th place just above Bolivia and Venezuela.
Freddy Ternero also momentarily managed the squad, but was dismissed due to problems with the FPF.
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Ever since their first
Copa América , Peru has had interestingly good showings. It is often remembered by fans that Peru was the 4th team (After Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil) that won the South American cup. Even though in 1939 Peru played against only 3 of the South American nations (With no participation from
Argentina or
Brazil ), in 1975 Peru won the cup once more (This time with all the
CONMEBOL teams participating).
Recently, Peru has only been able to get only as far as the quarterfinals of the tournament which holds its own prestige as being the oldest tournament of international football; along with having Argentina and Brazil (the 2 teams usually considered among the top 5 in the football world), which have also recently been dominating the tournament. Nevertheless, all the South American nations get to show-off their skills and characteristic play in the Copa América, and Peru is no exception. The team's colorful history in the Copa América tournaments for the least seems to hold that true.
Peru is the 7th nation to join the competition, and in 1927 the games are decided to be played there. Although only 3 teams came to the tournament, Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia; the participating federations decided that the 1st and 2nd places of the competition would represent South America for the Olympic Games to be played at Amsterdam in 1928. It should be noted that the other federations (Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay) did not participate because of economic and sport problems. Peru gained third place after only beating
Bolivia .
This tournament is characterized by the Argentinean and Uruguayan conflict that rooted from the
1930 World Cup . The winners here were going to once more represent South America for the Olympic Games, this time to be played at Berlin. Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay had withdrawn from the tournament. Peru's first game resulted at a 1-0 loss, with a goal scored by a Uruguayan player at the 80th minute. The second one wasn't much better, and Peru lost 4-1 against Argentina. The last game was won by Peru 1-0 against Chile. The tournament gave Peru the third spot, and helped it train and improve for the
1936 Summer Olympics .
This was the first international title the team won. During this time, the team had greatly improved since the World Cup and was re-assuring that dominance they had shown over Austria in the ,
2007
By this time, Peruvian football was recognized by good game and playful management of the ball. Several interesting players came to the national team, but the team faced several problems with the directors and the players themselves. Peru won all but two games. As such, the national team got third place. Paraguay and Brazil, the only ones who beat Peru, had to later play a last tie-breaker match.
As much as Peru did, the team was not capable to achieve another Copa America title until later years. Yet, the games played in 1953 are memorable to Peruvian football history because it was the first time Peru was able to beat Brazil (A certain something not many have been able to achieve). The goal was scored by Navarrete. Futbolperuano.com
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2007
This tournament had no fixed venue. For the first phase, Peru was grouped with Chile and Bolivia. After winning both games, which were played both at home and away, Peru qualified for the semifinals along with Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay (Which were the defending champions). Perhaps unlucky for Peru, they had to face Brazil for their semifinal. At the city of
Belo Horizonte in Brazil, Peru beat the
Verdeamarela by a margin of 3 to 1 with two goals from Enrique Cassareto and one by Teófilo Cubillas. The game played back home at Lima was won by Brazil 2-0. Due to the goal difference, the winner (Which turned out being Peru) was chosen by sorting.
The final match was played against Colombia, whom had beaten Uruguay. The game played at ,
2007
The team was able to reach the quarterfinals of this cup and eliminated . The game was won by Mexico by a goal scored at the 82nd minute of the game.
The
2004 Copa América , which they hosted, saw the team lose in the quarter-finals against Argentina. This began a wave of criticism against Peru's then coach
Paulo Autuori , who boycotted the media, and his squad. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_football/3650964.stm
Peru's campaign in the
2007 Copa América saw another futile attempt of the Peruvian squad, eliminated again in the quarter-finals by Argentina; the blame for this was mainly given to the tactics and formations of the coach
Julio César Uribe , who did not call the appropriate players to the national team. After this situation, Peru replaced Uribe for
Jose Del Solar .http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=558597.html
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Peru has participated in various international tournaments. Generally, the team gives a decent show and in some occasions has even been able to win some of the tournaments.
- Perú has qualified to the Olympic Games 2 times.
- Peru has participated in the (1989), and the '''Nahser Cup''' (1986).
- Perú was invited to the in 1997, and reached '''3rd place'''.
- Perú has disputed the once in 2000, reaching '''3rd place'''.
- Perú has disputed 2 , in 1999 and 2005, winning in both occasions.
''For more information:
1936 Berlin Olympics ''
In 1936, the Peruvian team was invited to join the Olympics to be played at
Berlin . Peru accepted the invitation and the team set-off for Berlin with high expectations. Previously, Peru had withdrawn from the
1934 FIFA World Cup , but this time Peru wanted to show what they were capable of doing.
The first match against (An Austrian himself) was highly interested in. To the surprise of many, Peru was able to defy all odds and beat
Austria (A :2 result). This result left Hitler with much problems, especially since the Peruvian team was mainly composed of black players while the Austrian team played with a white Arian squad. Austria, with support from Hitler, thus was able to gain teh chance for a repetition of the game to be once more played.
It is commonly said that one of the arguments used was that of the ball being too big and the goal too small; also that the field was too small for competition and that the Peruvian fans had stormed the field after the fourth goal. It is because of this insulting situation that Peru figured it was best to simply leave the tournament (Austria went on to win the Silver Medal), and all the Peruvian Olympic teams left Berlin in protest to what ,
2007
''For more information:
1997 U.S. Cup ''
The U.S. Cup (also known as the USA Cup, United States Cup and Nike U.S. Cup) was a soccer cup held annually in the United States from 1991 to 2000. The cup, hosted by the United States Soccer Federation, was contested between the United States and three guest teams; which in 1997 included Mexico, Peru, and Denmark. This was the first and only U.S. Cup for both Peru and Denmark.
In the first game of the tournament, Peru took the U.S. in
San Diego 's
Jack Murphy Stadium . Striking early, when
German Carty scored in the 8th minute off a
Paolo Maldonado cross, Peru dominated the first-half game. Yet, even though the U.S. dominated long stretches of the second-half and had several good chances, it was unable to score on any of them. In the second game the Peruvian team had a hard time converting their technical superiority into goals, partly due to Danish
Goalkeeper Mogens Krogh .Allan Pedersen, "Kroghs oprejsning", ''
Ekstra Bladet '', 20 January 1997
Peru's last match was against Mexico, a game that Peru needed to win to reach the top of the game's scoreboard. Yet, neither Peru or Mexico were able to score and the game ended in a tie. Peru thus gained the of the competition and Mexico won its second title.
''For more information:
2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup ''
Peru was one of three teams invited to the
2000 Gold Cup held at the United States. This was the first time Peru had been invited to the competition, and the team accepted to enter the tournament.
Peru played in of the tournament, placed with the USA and Haiti. Peru's two matches did not really go well for the team, they tied to
Haiti (1-1) and lost to the
USA (1-0) by the minimal difference. Nevertheless, Peru played a decent first phase that got them into the next round.
The challenge came when they had to face s leader, Honduras.
Honduras had come from winning both of their previous games against
Jamaica and
Colombia . The odds were really against Peru, but the team raised its name by beating Honduras '''5'''-3.
Peru's final match in the tournament came against Colombia. The match was won by Colombia 2-, with an
Own Goal from Peruvian player Salazar. Even though Peru hasn't been invited to the tournament ever since then, it is still a memorable participation for Peru since they went rather far (Along with Colombia) into a competition that was not of their football sector.
''For more information:
Kirin Cup ''
The Kirin Cup is an annual football tournament organised in Japan by the Kirin Corporation. Participants are either club teams or national teams, but the Japan national team is always a participant. Peru was invited to this competition in 1999 and 2005.
In 1999, Peru was invited along with Belgium. To Peru this served mainly as a training tournament, but surprisingly Peru was able to achieve the title. Of course,
Belgium also shared the title with Peru due to a tie in score. Nevertheless, this victory can be counted as an international title Peru has won (Their third).
Similarly, in 2005, Peru was once more only coming to the tournament to do a good show and train some more. Yet, they left Japan once more with the title of champions and their 4th international title (Shared with
United Arab Emirates this time). Peru now holds the historic 5th place of this competition with an overall of 3 ties and 1 victory.
Head coach:
José Del Solar
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