Peru Olympic football team

Peru Olympic football team (also known as Peru under-23, Peru U23) represents Peru in international football competitions in multi-sport events such as the Olympic Games and the Pan American Games. The selection is limited to players under the age of 23, except three overage players. The team is controlled by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF). Peru has participated in two Olympic football tournaments, one Pan American football tournament, and 7 Bolivarian football tournaments under this category.

Peru Olympic football team

Nickname(s)	La Blanquirroja (The White and Red) Los Incas (The Incas)
Association	Peruvian Football Federation (FPF)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Nolberto Solano
Home stadium	Estadio Nacional
FIFA code	PER
First colours Second colours
First international
Peru 7–3 Finland  (Berlin, Germany; 6 August 1930)
Biggest win
Peru 9–1 Ecuador  (Bogotá, Colombia; 11 August 1938)
Biggest defeat
Hungary 6–2 Peru  (Napoli, Italy; 29 August 1960)  Peru 0–4 Brazil  (Hamilton, Canada; 16 July 2015)
Olympics
Appearances	2 (first in 1936)
Best result	Quarter-finals (1936)
Pan American Games
Appearances	2 (first in 2015)
Best result	Group stage (2015, 2019)
Medal record Bolivarian Games 1938 Bogotá NA 1948 Lima NA 1961 Barranquilla NA 1973 Panama City NA 1981 Bogotá NA 1951 Caracas NA 1977 Barquisimeto NA

The squad requirements to participate in the Summer Olympics has changed multiple times through the history of the competition. Since 1992, squads for Football at the Summer Olympics have been restricted to three players over the age of 23 with similar changes occurring in the Pan American Games in 1999. The achievements of such teams are not usually included in the statistics of the international team.

History

1936 Summer Olympics

Peru qualified the Olympics for its first time in 1936,[1] after finishing third in the 1935 South American Championship. Argentina and Uruguay, who had finished ahead, refuse to participate because of economic issues.

Among the line of players featured in this first participation of the Blanquirroja were Alejandro Villanueva, Teodoro Fernández, Juan Valdivieso, and Adelfo Magallanes.[2] The Peruvian players, after arriving in Germany via an Italian ship, were awestruck by the modern stadiums and the German idolatry of Adolf Hitler.[1] The first match against Finland was played on August 6, 1936, and was won with great ease by the Peruvians with a 7-3 result.[2] Peru's next match was against Austria in the quarterfinals. The match was highly contested, and the game went into overtime where the Peruvians tied against the Austrians after being two goals behind. Peru scored 5 goals during overtime, of which 3 were nullified by the referee, and won by a final score of 4-2.[1]

The Austrians demanded a rematch on the grounds that Peruvian fans had stormed the field, and because the field did not meet the requirements for a football game.[1][2] Austria further claimed that the Peruvian players had manhandled the Austrian players and that spectators, one holding a revolver, had "swarmed down on the field."[3] Peru was notified of this situation, and they attempted to go to the assigned meeting but were delayed by a German parade.[1] At the end, the Peruvian defense was never heard, and the Olympic Committee and FIFA sided with the Austrians. The rematch was scheduled to be taken under close grounds on August 10, and later rescheduled to be taken on August 11.[2][3]

As a sign of protest against these actions, which the Peruvians deemed as insulting and discriminatory, the complete Olympic delegations of Peru and Colombia left Germany.[4][5] Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico expressed their solidarity with Peru.[3] Michael Dasso, a member of the Peruvian Olympic Committee, stated: "We've no faith in European athletics. We have come here and found a bunch of merchants."[6] The game was awarded to Austria by default.[3] In Peru, angry crowds protested against the decisions of the Olympic Committee by tearing down an Olympic flag, throwing stones at the German consulate, refusing to load German vessels in the docks of Callao, and listening to inflammatory speeches which included President Oscar Benavides Larrea's mention of "the crafty Berlin decision."[3] To this day, it is not known with certainty what exactly happened in Germany, but it is popularly believed that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi authorities might have had some involvement in the situation.[5]

1960 Summer Olympics

After 24 years, Peru once again qualified for the football tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome with their U-23 football team. It defeated Uruguay in the two-leg play-off round by 6-0 in Lima and then by 3-2 in Montevideo. The five play-off winners faced each other in a special tournament held in Lima in April 1960. Los Incas finished third ahead of Mexico and Suriname and thus qualified for the tournament in Rome.

In their first match of the tournament, Peru started out with a surprise as Angel Uribe scored a 1st-minute goal against France.[7] Peru would go on to lose 2-1 against the French, and were later beaten by Hungary in a result of 6-2, with only Alberto Ramírez scoring goals for the Blanquirroja.[8] Their last match was against India, which was a comfortable 3-1 score in favor of the Peruvians with goals by Nicolas Nieri and Thomas Iwasaki.[9]

Peru has not qualified again to the tournament since 1960, but were close to qualifying again in the 1964 and 1980 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournaments.

2015 Pan American Games

An official multi-sport event squad was created once again for the first time since the 1960 Summer Olympics in 2015 for Peru's first participation in the Pan American football tournament held in Canada. Peru had qualified to this tournament once before in 2007. CONMEBOL only accepted to play with Under-17 teams that year (qualified through the 2007 South American Under-17 Football Championship), since the Under-20 teams had to participate in the U-20 World Cup at the same time. Peru declined to participate because the Under-17 team preferred to play friendlies in Asia in preparation of the U-17 World Cup, so Bolivia took its place.

Thus Peru qualified once again in 2015 via the 2015 South American U-20 Championship. That year the top three teams in the final stage of the tournament qualified to the 2016 Olympic tournament and the bottom three to the 2015 Pan American tournament of which Peru finished 5th.

The team's first game was against Panama on July 12. Panama put themselves ahead via Jorman Aguilar at the beginning of the first half. Peru then equalized the score through a goal by Gonzalo Maldonado twelve minutes later. The deadlock was broken in the 90th minute when Elsar Rodas committed a foul against the Panamanian Cecilio Waterman who was awarded a penalty that was converted by Fidel Escobar for a final score of 2–1. The second game was against Brazil with a final score of 4–0 with goals of Luan, Clayton, Rômulo, and Dodô. This was enough to mathematically eliminate Peru out of the tournament before its third game against Canada. During that game Elsar Rodas scored the first and then Manjrekar James scored an own goal in the second half for a final 0–2 against the locals.

2019 Pan American Games

Peru qualified to the 2019 tournament as host. It lost its first game by 2–0 against Uruguay. Peru's second game was against Honduras who scored two goals in injury time of the game for a 2–2 draw. Peru's two goals were scored by Kevin Quevedo and Jordan Guivin. On the last match day, Uruguay defeated Honduras by 3–0 which would qualify Peru the second round of the tournament if it was able to defeat Jamaica. In the end Jamaica defeated Peru with two goals on the second half, relegating Peru to the 7th place match against Ecuador. There, a final score of 1–1 forced both teams to decide the match in penalties which Peru won by 4–2 to finish 7th of eight teams.

Bolivarian Games

The Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) are a regional multi-sport event held in honor of Simón Bolívar, and organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (Organización Deportiva Bolivariana, ODEBO). The games' football tournament has changed category multiple times during the history of the competition with full national teams participating only on the first edition in 1938. At times the competition was limited to only amateur sides or youth teams. In 1985 the tournament was played by Under-20 sides. Since 1993 the football tournament is played by U-17 national teams.

Peru won the first tournament which it counts as part of the accomplishments of the senior team. Because of the many changes, all of Peru's accomplishment since then until 1981 are counted as accomplishments of the Olympic team.

Players

Current

The following 23 players have been called up for the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.

• Overage players are denoted with a *

Caps and goals are correct as of 31 January 2020, after the match against Bolivia.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Pedro Ynamine	14 October 1998 (aged 21)	2	0	Universidad San Martín
12	GK	Renato Solís	28 January 1998 (aged 21)	6	0	Sporting Cristal
21	GK	Ángel Zamudio	21 April 1997 (aged 22)	1	0	Unión Comercio
2	DF	Marco Saravia	6 February 1999 (aged 20)	0	0	Unión Huaral
3	DF	Eduardo Caballero	31 March 1997 (aged 22)	5	0	Deportivo Municipal
4	DF	Gianfranco Chávez (captain)	10 August 1998 (aged 21)	12	0	Sporting Cristal
5	DF	Eduardo Rabanal	30 January 1997 (aged 22)	8	0	Deportivo Municipal
6	DF	José Luján	12 January 1997 (aged 23)	3	1	Universidad San Martín
13	DF	Dylan Caro	23 March 1999 (aged 20)	5	0	Alianza Lima
15	DF	Marcos López	20 November 1999 (aged 20)	7	0	San Jose Earthquakes
22	DF	Kluivert Aguilar	5 May 2003 (aged 16)	1	0	Alianza Lima
7	MF	Yuriel Celi	20 February 2002 (aged 17)	12	0	Cantolao
8	MF	Jairo Concha	27 May 1999 (aged 20)	7	0	Universidad San Martín
14	MF	Jordan Guivin	23 February 1998 (aged 21)	7	1	Universidad San Martín
16	MF	Jesús Pretell	26 March 1999 (aged 20)	12	0	Sporting Cristal
19	MF	Jorge Murrugarra	22 March 1997 (aged 22)	5	0	UTC
20	MF	Aldair Fuentes	25 April 1998 (aged 21)	11	0	Alianza Lima
9	FW	Christopher Olivares	3 April 1999 (aged 20)	7	0	Sporting Cristal
10	FW	Fernando Pacheco	26 June 1999 (aged 20)	7	0	Fluminense
11	FW	Sebastián Gonzales	6 December 1999 (aged 20)	7	0	Sport Boys
17	FW	Luis Carranza	18 August 1998 (aged 21)	5	1	Ayacucho
18	FW	José Rivera	8 May 1997 (aged 22)	7	1	Unión Comercio
23	FW	Kevin Sandoval	3 May 1997 (aged 22)	8	2	Sporting Cristal

Recent

The players listed below were not included in the current squad, but have been called up by Peru in the last 12 months.

• Overage players are denoted with a *

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club	Latest call-up
GK	Paolo Izaguirre	12 February 1998	0	0	Pirata F.C.	v.  Ecuador, 30 October 2019
GK	Renato Solís	28 January 1998	4	0	Sporting Cristal	v.  Colombia, 10 October 2019
GK	Carlos Cáceda*	27 September 1991	4	0	Melgar	2019 Pan American Games
GK	Massimo Sandi	12 May 2002	0	0	Alianza Lima	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
GK	Emile Franco	11 March 2000	0	0	Sporting Cristal	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
DF	Carlos Cabello	22 September 1997	1	0	Cantolao	v.  Ecuador, 30 October 2019
DF	Kevin Moreno	4 May 1997	1	0	Carlos A. Mannucci	v.  Ecuador, 30 October 2019
DF	Brayan Velarde	18 February 1999	1	0	Universitario	v.  Colombia, 10 October 2019
DF	Jefferson Portales	29 November 1997	2	0	Universidad San Martín	2019 Pan American Games
DF	Carlos Huerto	26 April 1999	3	0	Universidad de San Martín	2019 Pan American Games
DF	Leonardo Mifflin	4 January 2000	0	0	Melgar	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
DF	Alec Deneumostier	5 May 1999	0	0	Melgar	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
DF	Cristian Carbajal	20 September 1999	0	0	Sporting Cristal	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
MF	Gerald Távara	25 March 1999	1	0	Sporting Cristal	2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament^INJ[10]
MF	Daniel Cabrera	17 September 1997	0	0	Deportivo Municipal	v.  Ecuador, 30 October 2019
MF	Jesús Barco	9 March 1997	4	0	Universitario	v.  Ecuador, 30 October 2019
MF	Franco Medina	18 July 1999	3	0	Alianza Lima	v.  Colombia, 10 October 2019
MF	Hideyoshi Arakaki	2 January 1998	4	0	Melgar	2019 Pan American Games
MF	Yamir Oliva*	17 January 1996 (aged 23)	3	0	Universidad San Martín	2019 Pan American Games
MF	Andy Polar	17 February 1997	2	0	Binacional	2019 Pan American Games
MF	Shonn Sánchez	28 September 1997	0	0	Melgar	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
MF	Brandon Palacios	26 March 1998	0	0	Univ. San Martín	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
MF	Erick Perleche	15 August 2000	0	0	Pirata F.C.	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
FW	Kevin Quevedo	22 February 1997	6	2	Alianza Lima	2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament^SUS[11]
FW	Sebastián La Torre	28 September 1998	1	0	Cantolao	v.  Colombia, 10 October 2019
FW	Mauricio Montes*	22 June 1982	4	0	Ayacucho	2019 Pan American Games
FW	Luis Acuy	29 June 1998	3	0	Pirata F.C.	2019 Pan American Games
FW	Oslimg Mora	2 June 1999	0	0	Univ. San Martín	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
FW	Paulo Gallardo	29 January 2001	0	0	Sporting Cristal	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
FW	Anthony Osorio	26 April 1998	0	0	Universitario	2019 Pan American Games^PRE
^INJ Withdrew due to injury ^PRE Preliminary squad ^SUS Suspended ^WD Withdrew from the squad

Honours

• Bolivarian Games:
  • Winners: 1938, 1948, 1961, 1973, 1981
• CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament:
  • Runner-up: 1960

Results and fixtures

29 July 2019 2019 Pan American Games	Uruguay	2−0	Peru	Lima, Peru
20:30 PET (UTC–5)	Nuñez  6' Fernández  36'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Universidad San Marcos Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

1 August 2019 2019 Pan American Games	Honduras	2–2	Peru	Lima, Peru
20:30 PET (UTC–5)	Vuelto  90'+2' Maldonado  90'+7'	Report	Quevedo  15' Guivin  62'	Stadium: Estadio Universidad San Marcos Referee: Felipe González (Chile)

4 August 2019 2019 Pan American Games	Jamaica	2–0	Peru	Lima, Peru
20:30 PET (UTC–5)	Beckford  55', 60'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Universidad San Marcos Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

7 August 2019 2019 Pan American Games	Ecuador	1–1 (2–4 p)	Peru	Lima, Peru
10:00 PET (UTC–5)	Vivar  88'	Report	Minda  83' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estadio Universidad San Marcos Referee: José Argote (Venezuela)
	Penalties
	Vallecilla Alcivar Porozo Minda		Barco Acuy Arakaki Pretell Rivera

10 October 2019 Friendly	Peru	0–3	Colombia	Callao, Peru
				Stadium: Estadio Miguel Grau

13 October 2019 Friendly	Peru	1–0	Colombia	Callao, Peru
				Stadium: Estadio Miguel Grau

18 December 2019 Friendly	Peru	0–1	Ecuador	Lima, Peru
18:00 PET (UTC–5)		Report	Cabeza  17'	Stadium: Estadio Nacional

9 January 2020 Friendly	Peru	2–0	El Salvador	Callao, Peru
20:15 PET (UTC–5)	Rivera  22' Sandoval  84'			Stadium: Estadio Miguel Grau Referee: Joel Alarcón (Peru)

11 January 2020 Friendly	Peru	1–0	El Salvador	Callao, Peru
17:00 PET (UTC–5)	Sandoval  90+1'			Stadium: Estadio Miguel Grau Referee: Edwin Ordóñez (Peru)

19 January 2020 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Brazil	1–0	Peru	Armenia, Colombia
20:30 COT (UTC−5)	Paulinho  43'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Centenario Referee: Ángel Arteaga (Venezuela)

25 January 2020 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Paraguay	2–3	Peru	Armenia, Colombia
20:30 COT (UTC−5)	Salcedo  15' Díaz  16'	Report	Gonzáles  53' Carranza  71' Arzamendia  74' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estadio Centenario Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

28 January 2020 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Peru	0–1	Uruguay	Armenia, Colombia
18:00 COT (UTC−5)		Report	Ginella  11'	Stadium: Estadio Centenario Referee: Ángel Arteaga (Venezuela)

31 January 2020 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament	Bolivia	2–1	Peru	Armenia, Colombia
18:00 COT (UTC−5)	Villarroel  69' Saldías  75' (pen.)	Report	Luján  90+6'	Stadium: Estadio Centenario Referee: Nicolás Gallo (Colombia)

Competitive record

Olympic Games Record Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1900–1928 Did Not Qualify 1936 Quarter-finals 5/16 2 2 0 0 11 5 1948–1956 Did Not Qualify 1960 Round 1 11/16 3 1 0 2 6 9 1964–2016 Did Not Qualify Total 2/24 5 3 0 2 17 14

Olympic Games History Year Round Score Result 1936 Round of 16  Peru 7 – 3  Finland Win Quarter Finals  Peru 4 – 2  Austria Win(*) 1960 Round 1  Peru 1 – 2  France Loss Round 1  Peru 2 – 6  Hungary Loss Round 1  Peru 3 – 1  India Win

Bolivarian Games Record Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1938 Gold Medal 1/5 4 4 0 0 18 4 1947-48 Gold Medal 1/3 2 2 0 0 2 0 1951 Bronze Medal 3/5 4 2 1 1 6 4 1961 Gold Medal 1/4 6 6 0 0 13 6 1965 Did Not Participate 1970 Did Not Participate 1973 Gold Medal 1/4 6 4 1 1 17 3 1977 Bronze Medal 3/3 4 0 2 2 3 5 1981 Gold Medal 1/4 3 2 1 0 6 2 1985–1989 See Peru Under-20 team Since 1989 See Peru Under-17 team Total 5 Gold Medals 2 Bronze Medal 7/9 29 20 5 4 65 24

Bolivarian Games History Year Round Score Result 1938 Round-robin  Peru 4 – 2  Colombia Win Round-robin  Peru 9 – 1  Ecuador Win Round-robin  Peru 3 – 0  Bolivia Win Round-robin  Peru 2 – 1  Venezuela Win 1947-48 Round-robin  Peru 1 – 0  Bolivia Win Round-robin  Peru 1 – 0  Venezuela Win 1951 Round-robin  Colombia 1 – 0  Peru Loss Round-robin  Venezuela 2 – 2  Peru Draw Round-robin  Peru 2 – 1  Panama Win Round-robin  Peru 2 – 0  Ecuador Win 1961 Round-robin  Peru 3 – 2  Colombia Win Round-robin  Peru 2 – 1  Venezuela Win Round-robin  Peru 3 – 2  Panama Win Round-robin  Venezuela 0 – 1  Peru Win Round-robin  Colombia 0 – 2  Peru Win Round-robin  Panama 1 – 2  Peru Win 1973 Round-robin  Peru 0 – 0  Colombia Draw Round-robin  Peru 6 – 2  Bolivia Win Round-robin  Peru 4 – 0  Panama Win Round-robin  Colombia 0 – 1  Peru Win Round-robin  Bolivia 0 – 6  Peru Win Round-robin  Panama 1 – 0  Peru Loss 1977 Round-robin  Venezuela 2 – 1  Peru Loss Round-robin  Bolivia 0 – 0  Peru Draw Round-robin  Venezuela 2 – 2  Peru Draw Round-robin  Bolivia 1 – 0  Peru Loss 1981 Round-robin  Peru 1 – 1  Venezuela Draw Round-robin  Peru 3 – 0  Bolivia Win Round-robin  Peru 2 – 1  Colombia Win

Pan American Games Record Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA 1951–2003 Did Not Qualify 2007 Withdrew 2011 Did Not Qualify 2015 Round 1 6/8 3 1 0 2 3 6 2019 7th Place 7/8 4 0 2 2 3 7 Total 2/18 7 1 2 4 6 13

Pan American Games History Year Round Score Result 2015 Round 1  Peru 1 – 2  Panama Loss Round 1  Peru 0 – 4  Brazil Loss Round 1  Peru 2 – 0  Canada Win 2019 Round 1  Peru 0 – 2  Uruguay Loss Round 1  Peru 2 – 2  Honduras Draw Round 1  Peru 0 – 2  Jamaica Loss 7th Place match  Peru (4) 1 – 1 (2)  Ecuador Draw

See also

• Peru national football team
• Peru national under-20 football team
• Peru national under-17 football team

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