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The Bolivia national football team has represented Bolivia in international football since 1926. Organized by the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) it is one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). After playing in the 1930 and 1950 World Cups, they qualified just once—in 1994. There, playing champions Germany in the tournament's opening game in Chicago, Bolivia lost 1-0 as Marco Etcheverry, considered the nation's best player of the 1990s, got sent off just three minutes after coming on as a substitute. They have never advanced past the first round of any World Cup, and have only scored one goal, in 1994. However, they did win the Copa América at home in 1963, and finished as runner-ups in their following tournament as hosts in 1997. In the Copa América 2015 in Chile, after defeating Ecuador 3-2, they advanced to the quarter-finals for the first time since 1997. This also ended a non-winning streak in the Copa América, with their last win being on June 28, 1997, when they defeated Mexico 1-0 in the semi-finals.〔http://futbol.univision.com/copa-america/article/2015-06-15/ecuador-2-bolivia-3-cronica?ftloc=channel566:wcmWidgetUimStage&ftpos=channel566:wcmWidgetUimStage:1&cmpid=345677&hootPostID=45f58e8c40d8360c7e909014610475b7#axzz3dBb8CynY〕 ==History== Bolivia debuted in international football in 1926, one year after the foundation of the Bolivian Football Federation. As participants of the 1926 South American Championship in Chile, Bolivia scored first against the hosts with Téofilo Aguilar, but wound up defeated by the Chileans 7–1. Bolivia also lost the following three games, 0-5 against Argentina, 1-6 against Paraguay and 0-6 against Uruguay.〔(Historia de Nuestro Fútbol, Capítulo 2. Nacen la FBF y la Selección 1925-1926 )〕 In 1930, Bolivia was one of the teams invited to the inaugural edition of the FIFA World Cup, held in Uruguay. Drawn in Group 2 of the 1930 FIFA World Cup, Bolivia lost both its games 4-0, first to Yugoslavia at the Estadio Parque Central, and then to Brazil in the Estadio Centenario.〔(Bolivia en la Copa del Mundo, Capítulo 1. Uruguay 1930 )〕 The match versus the Yugoslavs would be the last match against non-South American opposition for Bolivia until 1972 - when they again met Yugoslavia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolivia- International Results )〕 They returned in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, where Argentina's withdrawal from the qualifiers lead Bolivia to an automatic berth. With three teams declining to play in Brazil, Bolivia was put in a group of two along with Uruguay. The Bolivians' only game was an 8-0 defeat to Uruguay at the Estádio Independência in Belo Horizonte.〔(Bolivia en la Copa del Mundo, Capítulo 2. Brasil 1950 )〕 Bolivia's greatest football achievement was the 1963 South American Championship title, which they hosted and had the advantage of being better used to the higher altitudes.〔(Copa América 1963 -Bolivia: a new champion is born )〕 Afterwards, the country only started to resurge in an international level with the creation of the Academia Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1978, a football school that revealed players such as Marco Etcheverry, Erwin Sánchez and Luis Cristaldo. Under Spanish coach Xabier Azkargorta and featuring nine players from Tahuichi, Bolivia became the first team to beat Brazil in the South American qualifiers while playing them in La Paz, and qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup finishing second in Group B of the CONMEBOL qualifiers behind the Brazilians themselves.〔(TAHUICHI HISTORY )〕 Bolivia was drawn into the tournament's Group C, and got selected as the adversary of defending champions Germany in the tournament's opening match. Bolivia lost in Chicago's Soldier Field 1-0 following a screw-up by goalkeeper Carlos Trucco, while also earning the fastest red card in World Cup history as Etcheverry got sent off just three minutes after entering the game. Following a 0-0 draw with South Korea at Foxboro Stadium, Bolivia returned to Chicago and lost 3-1 to Spain, with Sánchez scoring the first ever Bolivian goal in the World Cup.〔(1994 FIFA World Cup Technical Report ) (p. 133)〕 Following that Bolivia again hosted the South American Championship, now known as Copa América, in 1997. Again the team reached the final, only for this time to finish as runner-up to Brazil.〔(Copa América 1997 - Brazil Win their First Cup Away from Home )〕 In the 2015 Copa América in Chile, Bolivia are in Group A, with Chile, Mexico, and Ecuador. In their match against Mexico, Bolivia drew 0-0. However, against Ecuador, Bolivia defeated them by a score of 3-2, with goals from Raldes, Smedberg-Dalence, and Martins. From this victory against Ecuador, Bolivia made it to the next round, the quarter-finals, since the 1997 tournament, in which they hosted it.〔http://www.conmebol.com/es/15062015-1911/grupo-bolivia-derrota-3-2-ecuador-y-acaricia-los-cuartos〕Bolivia were deafeted by Peru 1-3 in the quarter- finals of the tournament. Bolivia's only goal of the game was a penalty in the last minutes of the match by Marcelo Martins Moreno. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bolivia national football team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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