Bolivia national football team - Definition and Overview

Bolivia

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Nickname	-
Association	Federación Boliviana de Fútbol
Coach	Ramiro Blacut
Most caps	Marco Sandy (93)
Top scorer	Victor Ugarte (16)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Chile 7 - 1 Bolivia (Santiago, Chile; 12 October, 1926)
Largest win Bolivia 7 - 0 Venezuela (La Paz, Bolivia; 22 August, 1993) Bolivia 9 - 2 Haiti (La Paz, Bolivia; 5 March, 2000)
Worst defeat Peru 9 - 0 Bolivia (Lima, Peru; 6 November, 1927) Brazil 10 - 1 Bolivia (Sao Paulo, Brazil; 10 April, 1949)
World Cup
Appearances	3 (First in 1930)
Best result	Round 1, 1930, 1950, 1994
Copa América
Appearances	22 (First in 1926)
Best result	Winners, 1963

The Bolivia national football team is the national team of Bolivia and is controlled by the Federación Boliviana de Fútbol. It is historically one of the weakest teams in CONMEBOL. After playing in the 1930 and 1950 World Cups, they qualified just once -- in 1994. There, playing champions Germany in the tournament's opening game in Chicago, Bolivia lost 1-0 as Marco Etcheverry, considered the nation's best player of the 1990s, got sent off just three minutes after coming on as a sub. They never advanced past the first round of any World Cup, but did win the Copa América once, in 1963.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Round 1
• 1934 - Did not enter
• 1938 - Did not enter
• 1950 - Round 1
• 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 to 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Round 1
• 1998 - Did not qualify
• 2002 - Did not qualify

Copa América record

Famous players

• Marco Etcheverry
• Jaime Moreno
• Erwin Sanchez