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2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification (CONMEBOL)
The CONMEBOL, South American Zone of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification saw nine teams competing for #Intercontinental play-off, 4 or 5 berths in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, finals. Brazil national football team, Brazil automatically qualified for the World Cup as the host nation so were not involved in CONMEBOL qualifying. Argentina national football team, Argentina, Colombia national football team, Colombia, Chile national football team, Chile, Ecuador national football team, Ecuador and Uruguay national football team, Uruguay advanced to the World Cup. Format The format for CONMEBOL's 2014 World Cup qualifying tournament was identical to the previous four editions. All CONMEBOL national teams played against each other twice on a home-and-away basis in a single group for 4 or 5 allotted berths. The top four teams automatically qualified for the finals. The fifth-placed team competed in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)#AFC v CONMEBOL, intercontine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Luis Suárez
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (; born 24 January 1987) is a Uruguayan professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami CF, Inter Miami. Known for his goal scoring ability, movement, and clinical finishing, he is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation. Nicknamed "El Pistolero" ("The Gunman"), individually, he has won two European Golden Shoes, an Eredivisie#Top scorers, Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot and a Pichichi Trophy. He has scored List of footballers with 500 or more goals, over 500 career goals for club and country. Suárez is Uruguay's Uruguay national football team#Records, all-time leading goalscorer. Suárez began his senior club career at Uruguayan club Club Nacional de Football, Nacional in 2005. He signed for FC Groningen, Groningen the following year, before transferring to AFC Ajax, Ajax in 2007. There, he won the 2009–10 KNVB C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification (CONMEBOL)
The CONMEBOL, South American Zone of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification saw nine teams competing for #Intercontinental play-off, 4 or 5 berths in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, finals. Brazil national football team, Brazil automatically qualified for the World Cup as the host nation so were not involved in CONMEBOL qualifying. Argentina national football team, Argentina, Colombia national football team, Colombia, Chile national football team, Chile, Ecuador national football team, Ecuador and Uruguay national football team, Uruguay advanced to the World Cup. Format The format for CONMEBOL's 2014 World Cup qualifying tournament was identical to the previous four editions. All CONMEBOL national teams played against each other twice on a home-and-away basis in a single group for 4 or 5 allotted berths. The top four teams automatically qualified for the finals. The fifth-placed team competed in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)#AFC v CONMEBOL, intercontine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Quito
Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, Pichincha. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha (volcano), Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes. Quito's elevation of makes it either the List of capital cities by altitude, highest or the second highest national capital city in the world. This varied standing is because Bolivia is a List of countries with multiple capitals, country with multiple capitals; if La Paz is considered the Bolivian national capital, it tops the list of highest capitals, but if Sucre is specified as the capital, then it is the second highest, behind Quito. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa
Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa () is a multi-purpose stadium in Quito, Ecuador. It is currently used primarily for football matches and has a capacity of 35,258. Overview Built in 1951, it sits at the intersection of the Avenida 6 de Diciembre and Avenida Naciones Unidas, two major streets in Ecuador's capital city. Football clubs Deportivo Quito, El Nacional and Universidad Católica use the facility for their home games, although other prominent teams in the city have used the stadium for home games in the past. The stadium is named after the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. The stadium is located at an elevation of . At this venue, the Ecuador national team has defeated Brazil twice, Paraguay three times, and Argentina twice, amongst others, securing their positions at the 2002, 2006, and 2014 World Cups. During the qualifying for 2006 and 2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Christian Benítez
Christian Rogelio Benítez Betancourt (1 May 1986 – 29 July 2013), also known as Chucho, was an Ecuadorian professional association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker. He began his career with Club Deportivo El Nacional, El Nacional in Ecuador and then joined Santos Laguna, with whom he won the award for Best Player of the Primera División de México Clausura 2008, Clausura 2008. He spent the 2009–10 season on Loan (association football), loan to Premier League club Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City, and then moved to Club América for a Mexican record US$10 million, where he was a regular scorer. He played for El Jaish SC, El Jaish of the Qatar Stars League at the time of his death. Benitez played 58 times for the Ecuador national football team from his debut in 2005, scoring 24 goals. He played for them at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and two Copa America tournaments. Following his death, the Ecuadorian Football Federation ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jaime Ayoví
Jaime Javier Ayoví Corozo () (born 21 February 1988 in Eloy Alfaro, Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for Emelec. Club career Emelec Ayoví started at the lower division club Paladín "S". In 2006, his cousin Walter Ayoví recommended him to try out at Emelec. He did and was impressive enough to be signed on a 4-year deal when he was 18 years. Despite his height and size he started playing as an open forward, or a winger and not as a center forward, because he is very skilled with the ball and very fast and he did not like to have to go down the middle but preferred to run to the sides where there was more space to move. On 2009 he was loaned to first division club Manta to gain more minutes and experience. He did well playing in 32 matches of the Ecuadorian league and scoring 7 goals, despite this Emelec management were going to loan him again for the next season, but newly signed manager Jorge Sampaoli saw videos of Ayoví and requested him to stay in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peruvian Football Federation
The Peruvian Football Federation ( or ) is the body that governs Association football in Peru. It was founded on August 23, 1922, and affiliated with FIFA in 1924. It is a member of CONMEBOL since 1925, and directly oversees the Peru national football team, futsal team youth teams, Peruvian Primera División, and the amateur leagues. The Peruvian National football team has won two Copa Américas, six Bolivarian Games titles and qualified for the FIFA World Cup five times. It is indirectly involved in the organization of the Primera División (today Liga 1), the Liga Femenina, Liga 2, Liga 3, Copa Perú, Copa LFP - FPF and others. It is headquartered in the Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA) on Aviación Avenue 2085 in San Luis, Lima, which is also the training center of most Peruvian sports federations. Association staff Competitions Men's football The list of official competitions organized by the Peruvian Football Federation since its creation in 1922 are: Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Víctor Hugo Carrillo
Víctor Hugo Carrillo Casanova (born 30 October 1975) is a former Peruvian football referee who was a listed international referee for FIFA from 2005 until his retirement in 2021. Career Víctor Hugo refereed in the Peruvian Primera División, Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, 2010 FIFA World Cup, several South American qualifiers, international friendly matches and in the Copa Perú, when he refereed a match between Los Caimanes against Universitario (Trujillo) in Chiclayo. He participated in the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup in United Arab Emirates. He served on the panel of referees who were at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He was selected among the 10 pre-ranked South American referees to lead at the 2014 FIFA World Cup The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for list of men's national association football teams, men's national Association football, football teams organised by FIFA. It took place in Brazil fr .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. A Portuguese garrison was established in the place where today is the city of Montevideo in November 1723. The Portuguese garrison was expelled in February 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the Río de la Plata Basin, platine region. There is no official document establishing the foundation of the city, but the "Diario" of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala officially mentions the date of 24 December 1726 as the foundation, corroborated by presential witnesses. The complete independence from Buenos Aires as a real city was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Estadio Centenario
Centenario Stadium (, ; , named after the Constitution of Uruguay of 1830, centenary of Constitution of Uruguay, Uruguay's Constitution) is an association football stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay. Located in the Parque Batlle, Parque Battle neighbourhood, It is owned by the Montevideo Department The stadium was built between 1929 and 1930 to host the inaugural 1930 FIFA World Cup. It is listed by FIFA as one of the football world's classic stadiums. On 18 July 1983, it was declared by FIFA as the first Historical Monument of World Football, to this day the only building to achieve this recognition worldwide.The mythical Centenario stadium, a "Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marcelo Martins Moreno
Marcelo Martins Moreno (born 18 June 1987), known as Marcelo Martins in Bolivia and as Marcelo Moreno in other countries, is a Bolivian former professional footballer. He is considered one of the greatest Bolivian players of all time. With 108 caps and 31 goals, he is the national team's all-time capped player and all-time top goalscorer. Club career Moreno was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. He began his career at Oriente Petrolero. In 2003, Martins debuted for the club as a 16-year-old in Bolivia's Primera División. He moved to Vitória, becoming first choice in 2006, at the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. He scored 12 goals in the competition, four less than the top goalscorer. In the middle of 2007, he moved to Cruzeiro, becoming first choice only in the next year, when he scored 8 goals at the 2008 Copa Libertadores, being the top goalscorer, alongside Salvador Cabañas. On 27 May 2008, he signed a five-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk. The Ukrainian cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rudy Cardozo
Rudy Alejandro Cardozo Fernández (born 14 February 1990) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Independiente Petrolero and the Bolivia national team as a midfielder. Club career Early career Born in Tarija, Cardozo was a Club Bolívar youth graduate. In the 2008 summer he moved to Israel second division side Ironi Ramat HaSharon, making his senior debuts for the latter in the campaign. Bolívar In July 2009 Cardozo returned to Bolívar, but only appeared rarely for the club during his first year. On 17 May 2010 he scored his first goals, netting a brace in a 2–2 draw against Aurora. Cardozo was an undisputed starter in 2010 appearing in 47 matches and scoring nine goals. He was also a part of the squad in the 2011 and 2012–13 winning campaigns, always as a first-choice. In August 2012 Cardozo was due to join Russian Premier League's FC Alania Vladikavkaz, but the deal collapsed. On 22 October 2014, after scoring in a 6–1 home routing over Club Deportivo San José ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
