Chile national football team
The Chilean national football team is one of the more successful national football teams in South America. Your First Game of the national team on 27 May 1910 in Buenos Aires against an Argentine national team, which they lost with 1:3. The first international match was followed two days later at the same place in the framework of the hundredth anniversary of Argentina's May Revolution of 1810 Campeonato Sudamericano held and ended with a 0-3 defeat against the Uruguayan national football team. 1916 took the team on the first Campeonato Sudamericano under the aegis of the CONMEBOL part, but it was with just a single point last. 1955, 1956, 1979 and 1987 Chile reached the second place. In 1928 the country first participates in the Olympic football tournament.
Participation in the World Cup
Chile already took part in the first World Cup in Uruguay, after victories over France and Mexico had also beat Argentina Chile, in order to qualify for the semifinals. However, Argentina went through Guillermo Stábile 13 minutes with a 2-0 lead and ultimately won 3-1. Chile was eliminated it. In the second finals appearance in 1950 in Brazil, the team retired after losing to England and Spain also in the preliminary round of. Only the United States could be defeated with 5:2.
In the 1962 World Cup in their own country Chile won the opening game 3-1 against Switzerland. Although the Swiss went after seven minutes on the clock, but Leonel Sánchez leveled just before the break; in the second half, the hosts won the upper hand and won through the gates of Ramírez Sánchez. In the second match against Italy, which made more by his brutality than by his playful headlines course, the hosts won by two late goals 2-0 and were ahead of qualifying for the quarter-finals. By the final 0-2 defeat against West Germany, however, the Chileans lost the first place in the table and had her quarterfinal match in Arica dispute. In the quarterfinals of the hosts met on the Soviet Union and won 2-1. The semi-final against the defending champion from Brazil Chile lost with 2:4 and had to after the 1-0 victory over Yugoslavia satisfied with the third place.
1966 in England left the Chileans to their new playmaker Elías Figueroa in the preliminary round with just one point from three games out. Against the Soviet Union and Italy there were defeats.
Already the qualification for the 1974 World Cup in Germany made headlines because Chile had to play as the worst group winners of the South American group in a play-off game with a European team is the last to be awarded final place - enemy was the Soviet Union. The first leg in Moscow ended in a goalless draw, the return leg in Santiago should be played at the Estadio Nacional. The Soviets, however, refused in this stadium, recorded in the during the first days of the Pinochet coup, thousands of opposition activists were tortured and murdered, to compete and asked FIFA to a relocation of the game. Since these refused the Soviet team did not come to the game was a 2-0 count towards the Chile thus qualified. In the final round of the Chileans lost 0-1 against the host nation Germany. In the other group matches, there were two draws against the GDR (1:1 ) and Australia ( 0-0). During the first game against the FR of Germany Carlos Caszely was the first player who received a red card in a World Cup finals.
Eight years later in Spain divided the Chilean team - led by the now 35 -year-old Figueroa - after three defeats against Austria ( 0:1), Germany (1:4) and Algeria ( 2:3 ) no points in the first round of.
For the World Championships in 1990 and 1994, Chile was closed due to an incident in September 1989 at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. During a World Cup qualifying game against hosts Brazil Chile there needed a victory, but was back 67 minutes 0:1. A firecracker landed near the Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas, who immediately labeled an injury and was then taken away on a stretcher. The remaining Chilean player refused the continuation of the game, as this would be unsafe. Television recordings demonstrated that, between the fireworks and Rojas took place no contact. The game was counted at the end of 2-0 for Brazil and Chile also excluded from qualifying for the tournament in 1994. Roberto Rojas was banned for life, although his 2001 pardon befell.
For the World Cup 1998, Chile was able to ultimately qualify as fourth in the South America group in front of the tied Peruvians. At the tournament in France ranged three draws in the group stage to progress, but stopped in the second round with a 4-1 Brazil Chile.
When qualifying for the Football World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea, Chile was cut off last group and could only 3 of 18 games to win. Also for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Chileans could not qualify.
The qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, however, was extremely successful for Chile, so they qualified as runner-up of America group, only one point behind group winners Brazil, sure. In the first World Cup match against Honduras, the Chilean team was able to achieve victory in a World Cup for the first time since the 1962 World Cup again. With another victory (1-0 ) against Switzerland, Chile, despite the final 1:2 against Spain qualify for the knockout stages and met Brazil. After a 0:3 Chile withdrew from the tournament.
On the way to World Cup 2014, Chile qualified third in South America group with four points behind the first-placed Argentineans. Just like the two-time world champion had retracted nine wins. At the same time but had to acknowledge about six losses, which is why it took until the last game of the 16 days before the qualification could be made perfect. in the domestic Santiago de Chile 2013 ( local time) on 15 October defeated Ecuador 2-1 and hailed the ninth World Cup. In the group stage of the tournament first hits Chile as 1974 in Australia, then as in 2010 to Spain and finally for the first time at a World Cup in the Netherlands.
Participation in the Olympic Games
Current squad
Most games
( As at 10 June 2012)
Coach
In World Cups Chile was supervised by the following coaches:
International matches against German -speaking national football teams
So far there have been no games against Liechtenstein.