The peruvian team will debut this Friday, June 20, 2024 in the Copa America 2024 before its counterpart from Chile. The meeting will take place at the AT&T Stadium in Texas, a venue with the capacity to hold 80,000 spectators. In this competition, both teams have faced each other on 21 occasions: seven Peruvian victories, eight Chilean victories and seven draws.
Last with 2 points in 6 games in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 North American World Cup, Peru is experiencing its darkest hours since its participation in Russia-2018, its first World Cup since Spain-1982.
The Uruguayan Jorge Fossati, 71 years old, took the reins of the red and white team starting in 2024 with the challenge of getting it out of the deep basement in which it fell, but the player base he has is the same one that left his predecessor, Juan Reynoso, off the bench.
That is why the inexhaustible forwards Paolo Guerrero (40 years old), the team’s top scorer with 40 goals, will once again parade in the team; and Gianluca Lapadula (34), goalkeeper Pedro Gallese (34), defenders Carlos Zambrano (34) and Luis AdvÃncula (33) and midfielder Christian Cueva (32), among others.
Faces to watch: right winger Joao Grimaldo, 21, a daring striker for Sporting Cristal, defender Oliver Sonne, 23, born in Denmark to a Peruvian mother and right back for Silkeborg IF in that country, and midfielder Piero Quispe, 22 years old from the Pumas of Mexico.
Source: Elcomercio
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