Peru

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	La blanquirroja (the white and red one)
Association	Federación Peruana de Fútbol
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Julio César Uribe, 2007-
Captain	Claudio Pizarro
Most caps	Roberto Palacios (117)
Top scorer	Teófilo Cubillas (26)
Home stadium	Estadio Nacional de Lima
FIFA code	PER
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	50
Highest	34 (September 1997)
Lowest	86 (February 2003)
First international
Peru 0 - 4 Uruguay  (Lima, Peru; November 1, 1927)
Biggest win
Peru 9 - 0 Bolivia  (Lima, Peru; 6 November 1927)
Biggest defeat
Brazil 7 - 0 Peru (Santa Cruz, Bolivia; 26 June, 1997)
World Cup
Appearances	4 (first in 1930)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 1970
Copa América
Appearances	27 (first in 1927)
Best result	Winners, 1939 and 1975

The Peru national football team is the national football team of Peru. The team competes with the other nine nations in the CONMEBOL conference within the FIFA.

Between 1970 and 1982, a Golden Generation of Peruvian footballers qualified for three out of four FIFA World Cups and won the Copa América in 1975. Teófilo 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. Six straight qualification failures however have since plagued the once proud side.

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 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.

The campaign to reach France 1998 was thwarted only by the goal difference tiebreaker, as they finished even on points with Chile.

The preliminaries for Korea/Japan 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 in that many matches demonstrates 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.

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 [1], and his squad. Peru's campaign in the 2007 Copa America 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 current coach Julio César Uribe, who did not call the appropriate players to the national team.

World Cup record

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• 1930 - Round 1
• 1934 - Withdrew
• 1938 - Did not enter
• 1950 - Withdrew
• 1954 - Withdrew
• 1958 to 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Quarterfinals
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Round 2
• 1982 - Round 1
• 1986 to 2006 - Did not qualify

Copa América record

1916 to 1926 - Did not enter 1927 - Third place 1929 - Fourth place 1935 - Third place 1937 - Sixth place 1939 - Winners 1941 - Fourth place 1942 - Fifth place 1945 - Withdrew 1946 - Withdrew 1947 - Fifth place 1949 - Third place 1953 - Fifth place 1955 - Third place 1956 - Sixth place 1957 - Fourth place

1959 - Fourth place 1959 - Withdrew 1963 - Fifth place 1967 - Withdrew 1975 - Winners 1979 - Semifinals 1983 - Semifinals 1987 - Round 1 1989 - Round 1 1991 - Round 1 1993 - Quarterfinals 1995 - Round 1 1997 - Fourth place 1999 - Quarterfinals 2001 - Quarterfinals 2004 - Quarterfinals

2007 - Quarterfinals

Current Squad

Head coach: Julio César Uribe

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Leao Butrón	March 6, 1977			San Martín
2	2DF	Miguel Villalta	16 June, 1981			Sporting Cristal
3	2DF	Santiago Acasiete	22 November, 1977			UD Almería
4	2DF	Walter Vílchez	20 February, 1983			Cruz Azul
5	2DF	Alberto Rodriguez	31 March 1984			S.C. Braga
6	2DF	Jhoel Herrera	9 July, 1980			GKS Belchatow
7	3MF	Jair Cespedes				Sport Boys
8	3MF	Juan Carlos Bazalar	23 February, 1968			Cienciano
9	4FW	José Paolo Guerrero	1 January 1984			Hamburg
10	3MF	Juan Carlos Mariño	2 January, 1982			Cienciano
11	4FW	Ysrael Zúñiga	27 August, 1976			Melgar
12	1GK	George Forsyth	20 June, 1982			Alianza Lima
13	2DF	Paolo de la Haza	November 30, 1983			Cienciano
14	4FW	Claudio Pizarro	October 3, 1978			Chelsea F.C.
15	3MF	Edgar Villamarín	April 1, 1983			Cienciano
16	4FW	Andrés Augusto Mendoza	26 April, 1978			Metalurh Donetsk
17	4FW	Jefferson Farfán	20 October, 1984			PSV Eindhoven
18	3MF	Pedro García	14 March, 1974			San Martín
19	3MF	Damián Ísmodes	10 March, 1989			Sporting Cristal
20	4FW	Roberto Jimenez	26 April, 1983			San Lorenzo de Almagro
21	1GK	Juan Flores				Cienciano
22	2DF	John Galliquio	1 December, 1979			Universitario de Deportes

Other players

Goalkeepers

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Joel Pinto				Alianza Lima
	1GK	Diego Penny				Bolognesi
	1GK	Eric Delgado				Sporting Cristal

Defenders

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	2DF	Amilton Prado	6 May, 1979			Sporting Cristal
	2DF	Ismael Alvarado				Alianza Lima
	2DF	Manuel Corrales				FC Metz
	2DF	Luis Hernandez				Sporting Cristal
	2DF	Martín Hidalgo				SC Internacional

Midfielders

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	3MF	Rinaldo Cruzado				FC Grasshoppers
	3MF	Rainer Torres				Sporting Cristal
	3MF	Miguel Cevasco				Universitario
	3MF	Juan Vargas				Calcio Catania
	3MF	Nolberto Solano				Newcastle United
	3MF	Henry Quinteros				Lech Poznan
	3MF	Alexander Sanchez				GKS Belchatow

Strikers

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	4FW	Wilmer Aguirre				FC Metz
	4FW	Miguel Mostto				Barnsley FC
	4FW	Jair Baylon				Sporting Braga
	4FW	Hernan Rengifo				Lech Poznan
	4FW	Daniel Chavez				Club Brugge
	4FW	Piero Alva				Skoda Xanthi
	4FW	Juan Diego Gonzales Vigil				Universitario

Recently Retired from the Team

Jorge Soto
Juan Jayo
Oscar Ibañez
Miguel Rebosio

Kit Evolution

1927-1929

1930-1939

1940-1969

Current (1970)

Current (Alternative)

2nd Current (Alternative)

Famous players

Héctor Chumpitaz Teófilo Cubillas Jefferson Farfán José Paolo Guerrero Roberto Palacios Claudio Pizarro Nolberto Solano Teodoro "Lolo" Fernandez Alberto Terry Roberto Challe Hugo Sotil Cesar Cueto

Juan Jose Jayo Jorge Soto Juan Reynoso José "Puma" Carranza Flavio Maestri Germán Carty Roberto Martínez Tudela Franco Navarro Julio César Uribe Eugenio la Rosa Gerónimo Barbadillo Juan Carlos Oblitas

Ramon "El Loco" Quiroga Juan "el mago" Valdivieso Alejandro Villanueva Alberto Gallardo Nicolas Fuentes Ramon Mifflin Pedro "Perico" Leon Julio Baylon Victor Calatayud Oswaldo "Cachito" Ramirez José "Chemo" del Solar Juan Manuel Vargas

Managers

Before 1990

• Jack Greenwell, 1939
• Valdir "Didi" Pereira, World Cup 1970
• Marcos Calderón, World Cup 1978
• Roberto Challe, World Cup 1986 Qualifier

Since 1990

• Miguel Company (1990 – 1991, 1994 – 1995)
• Vladimir Popović (1991 – 1993)
• Juan Carlos Oblitas (1995 – 1999)
• Francisco Maturana (1999 – 2000)
• Julio César Uribe (2000 – 2002)
• Paulo Autuori (2002 – 2005)
• Freddy Ternero (2005 – 2006)
• Franco Navarro (2006)
• Julio César Uribe (2007 – current)

List of Recent International Matches

Date	Venue	Opponents	Result	Score	Type
June 3, 2007	Vicente Calderon Stadium Madrid, Spain	Ecuador	W	2 - 1	Friendly match
June 6, 2007	Mini Estadi Barcelona, Spain	Ecuador	L	2 - 0	Friendly match
June 26, 2007	Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida Mérida, Venezuela	Uruguay	W	3 - 0	Copa América 2007
June 30, 2007	Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo San Cristóbal, Venezuela	Venezuela	L	0 - 2	Copa América 2007
July 3, 2007	Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida Mérida, Venezuela	Bolivia	D	2 - 2	Copa América 2007

U-17 Team

Early in the year of 2007, the Peruvian U-17 team has been giving brand new stars and hopes to the "blanquirroja" and its fans. After their first FIFA U-17 World Cup appearance in 2005 (Peru as host nation), the team has greatly improved in skill and determination. Their first World Cup saw them lose with merely 1 point, but the team once more (On their own merits) qualified for the World Cup in 2007. Not only that, but Reimond Manco (Forward/Attacking Midfielder, of the blanquirrojas) was named the best player of the South American Under 17 Football Championship by the CONMEBOL.

Their most recent accomplishment is that of winning the hexagonal played in Niigata, Japan. The team had previously beaten the local Albirex Niigata football team and Japan to advance into the finals to successfully beat the Hungarian team.

The U-17 squad currently has Juan Jose Oré as their Head Coach.

Date	Venue	Opponents	Result	Score	Type
July 13, 2007	Sport Island Seibo Niigata, Japan	Albirex Niigata	W	3 - 0	International Hexagonal of Niigata
July 15, 2007	Big Swan Stadium Niigata, Japan	Japan	W	1 - 0	International Hexagonal of Niigata
July 16, 2007	Big Swan Stadium Niigata, Japan	Hungary	W	2 - 0	International Hexagonal of Niigata

External links

• Peru FA
• FIFA team profile

Preceded by 1937 Argentina	South American Champions 1939 (First title)	Succeeded by 1941 Argentina
Preceded by 1967 Uruguay	South American Champions 1975 (Second title)	Succeeded by 1979 Paraguay

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