Chile national football team - Definition and Overview

Chile

Chile_football_association.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	-
Association	Federación de Fútbol de Chile
Coach	Juvenal Olmos (2003-)
Most caps	Leonel Sánchez (84)
Top scorer	Marcelo Salas (34)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Argentina 3 - 1 Chile (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 27 May, 1910)
Largest win Chile 7 - 0 Venezuela (Santiago, Chile; 29 August, 1979) Chile 7 - 0 Armenia (Santiago, Chile; 5 January, 1997)
Worst defeat Brazil 7 - 0 Chile (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 17 September, 1959)
World Cup
Appearances	7 (First in 1930)
Best result	Third place, 1962
Copa América
Appearances	34 (First in 1916)
Best result	Second place, 1955, 1956, 1979, 1987

The Chile national football team best World Cup finish is third place in 1962, when the finals were hosted in Chile. Chile beat Yugoslavia 1-0 in the third place match.

Between 1990 and 1994, Chile was barred from participating in the World Cup by FIFA. It resulted from an incident during a qualifier with Brazil, when the Chilean goalkeeper Robert Rojas pretending to be seriously injured by firecrackers thrown from the Brazilian sections of the crowd, to try and force the abandonment of the match. Brazil were leading 1-0 with 23 minutes left and a defeat would have meant Chile would have not qualified for the World Cup. Hoping for a rematch, Chilean officials and medical staff escorted the players off the pitch. After studying a video of the match, FIFA realised that the firecracker had not made contact with Rojas and the event had been a deception on the part of the Chile team. They banned Rojas for life from football, awarded Brazil a 2-0 win and banned Chile from the 1994 World Cup.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Round 1
• 1934 - Withdrew
• 1938 - Did not enter
• 1950 - Round 1
• 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Third place
• 1966 - Round 1
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Round 1
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Round 1
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Disqualified
• 1994 - Banned
• 1998 - Round 2
• 2002 - Did not qualify

Copa América record

Famous Players

• Elías Figueroa
• Marcelo Salas
• Iván Zamorano

External links

• RSSSF archive of results 1910-2003 (http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/chil-intres.html)
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers (http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/chil-recintlp.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of results in the World Cup (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of squads in the World Cup (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi_squads.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of results in the World Cup qualifiers (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi_qualify.html)