The Peru national football team,nicknamed La Blanquirroja, represents Peru in men's international football. The national team has been organised,since 1927,by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF). The FPF constitutes one of the ten members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). Peru has won the Copa América twice,and has qualified for the FIFA World Cup five times;the team also participated in the 1936 Olympic football competition and has reached the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The team plays most of its home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima,the country's capital.
Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for South America. 10 teams took part,all in a single group. The rules were very simple:the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis,with the four teams with most points qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania,with the winner of this play-off also qualifying. For the first time,defending champions Brazil was required to go through the qualifying process and did not automatically qualify for the tournament.
Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo (1841–1917) was a Portuguese officer in the Portuguese Navy and an explorer,who helped to chart territory between Angola and Mozambique that was unknown to Europeans in the 1870s and 1880s. Alongside Roberto Ivens,he is famous for being the first European to cross Central Africa from coast to coast between Angola and Mozambique.
The 1979 edition of the Copa América association football tournament was played between 18 July and 12 December. It was not held in a particular country,all matches were played on a home and away basis. Defending champions Peru were given a bye into the semi-finals.
Luis Antonio Hierro López is a Uruguayan politician and diplomat who served as the 13th vice president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005 under Jorge Batlle.
Javier Maximiliano Alfredo Hipólito Valle Riestra González Olaechea or simply known as Javier Valle Riestra,was a Peruvian lawyer and politician. Known as a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party,he held several public offices,the most controversial among them being the President of the Council of Ministers during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori in 1998. This premiership is known for being the only one led by a politician from the opposition in Peruvian history during the Fujimori regime to date.
Carlos A. Mannucci,known simply as Mannucci,is a professional football club based in Trujillo,La Libertad,Peru. The club is the most important in the city having represented Trujillo in the first division of Peruvian football in multiple occasions since the late 1960s. Its greatest accomplishment are its back-to-back Copa Perúchampionships and the three Regional Championships of Peru,Northern Zone. The club has a long rivalry with Alfonso Ugarte,and matches between the two teams are known as ''El Clásico Trujillano''. In recent years,it has also developed a rivalry against the other professional club in the city,Universidad César Vallejo.
The National Police of Peru is the national police force of Peru. Its jurisdiction covers the nation's land,sea,and air territories. Formed from the merger of the Investigative Police,the Civil Guard,and the Republican Guard in 1988,it is one of the largest police forces in Latin America. Its mission is to preserve domestic order,public order and national security,in order to enforce the law and protect the people of Peru. The PNP is controlled by the Ministry of the Interior. The PNP has a number of divisions,tasked with enforcing specific aspects of the law;among the more well known are DIROES,DIRANDRO,DIRINCRI,and DIRCOTE (Anti-Terrorism).
The South American Zone of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification saw nine teams competing for 4 or 5 berths in the finals. Brazil automatically qualified for the World Cup as the host nation so were not involved in CONMEBOL qualifying. Argentina,Colombia,Chile,Ecuador and Uruguay advanced to the World Cup.
Sergi Roberto Carnicer is a Spanish professional footballer. Mainly a central midfielder,he can also operate as a defensive midfielder,full-back or winger.
Events in the year 1970 in Mexico.
Events in the year 1972 in Mexico.
Luis Pércovich Roca was a Peruvian politician. Pércovich served as the President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru from July 1981 to July 1982. He served as Prime Minister of Peru from 14 October 1984 to 28 July 1985.
The South American section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup,to be held in Qatar,for national teams which are members of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). A total of 4.5 slots in the final tournament were available for CONMEBOL teams.
Since 2016,Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis,initially between the President,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased,as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments,resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.
Daniel Belizario Urresti Elera is a Peruvian retired army general and politician who served as Minister of the Interior in the administration of President Ollanta Humala from 2014 to 2015,and as a Congressman representing Lima from 2020 to 2021. He is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos.
Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler is a Peruvian engineer,academic,politician,and author who served as the President of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021.
Luis Alberto Otárola Peñaranda is a Peruvian attorney and politician who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 2022 until his resignation in 2024. He previously served as Minister of Defense twice,under Ollanta Humala and Dina Boluarte.
The presidency of Pedro Castillo began with his inauguration as the president of Peru on 28 July 2021,the Peruvian Independence Day. In the 2021 Peruvian general election,Castillo,a school teacher and union organizer,won the presidential election against the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori of Popular Force by a 45,000 margin in the runoff. In the congressional elections,Castillo's party,Free Peru,did not get a majority in the Congress of the Republic of Peru.
Fox Sports was a group of sports television channels available in Latin America. Several years after acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019,The Walt Disney Company announced its decision to unify its sports broadcasting operations in Latin America exclusively under the ESPN brand. As a result,all Fox Sports channels were rebranded as ESPN by February 2024.
