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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

CHILE SOCCER TEAM



The soccer team of Chile, known as "La Roja" is the country's representative team in official competitions and football. It is one of the oldest national teams in the world, playing its first game on May 27, 1910.

His organization is in charge of the Football Federation of Chile, whose foundation dates from June 19, 1895. It is affiliated to FIFA since 1913 and was one of the founding members of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) in 1916.

He has participated in eight World Cups, the 1930, 1950, 1962, which hosted the 1966, 1974, 1982, 1998 and 2010.

The crowning achievement of the Chilean team has been to reach third in the world, after beating Yugoslavia in the World Cup 1962, which was the host. At regional level, has been America's Cup runner-up four times (1955, 1956, 1979 and 1987).

A lower level teams, Chile has won twice in third place in World Cup FIFA U-17, 1993 in Japan and the World Cup 2007 U-20 Championship in Canada. In the Olympic context, Chile received a bronze medal in Sydney 2000. Finally, we emphasize that he was champion in the hopes of Toulon Tournament 2009, prestigious tournament unofficial under-21 category.
  
Some of the most important figures of this have been selected Sergio Livingstone, Enrique Hormazábal, Leonel Sánchez, Elías Figueroa, Carlos Caszely, Roberto Rojas, Iván Zamorano y Marcelo Salas.

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