Peru has success in other sports

Unlike football, Peru does not have trouble classifying other sports world. In some cases we have a great team and other athletes seeking our expertise and continental break records.

1. VOLLEYBALL: The 'matadorcitas' from Natalia Malaga were in the Fourth World U18 Thailand 2013. The team also participated in the Under 20 World Czech Republic. Even though the country ran a great shame in the last South American championship in Argentina, the Peruvian selection is still a great team of South America.

2. ATHLETICS: In the recent Moscow World had two athletes competing. Jorge McFarlane participated in 100 meters hurdles, and Kimberly Garcia broke the national record of 20 kilometers up.

3. SHOT: The team will participate in the World Cup discipline, which will run from September 14 to 25 in the Polygon, 'Capitan FAP José Quinone’s in Chorrillos.

4. WATER POLO: The U17 team qualified for the 2014 World Championship in Turkey, after finishing fifth in the I Pan American category.

Why Peru not classify to the 2014 FIFA World Cup?

1.       Peruvian Football. The local tournament is the worst in South America. A lack of proper training players coupled with the lack of infrastructure. No Peruvian team has won the Copa Libertadores and have reached the point of having a classification round, which also uncommon.

2.       The excessive euphoria. Paulo Autuori said in 2002, a year before reaching the Peruvian Selection: “Fans, press, officials, referees and everyone involved in football must never know that Peru can be favorite to anything. No work may start thinking that you can achieve a classification. The promises it starts wrong way. “Few words to say many things.

3.       No investment in juvenile category. Each year, the Peruvian players transfer abroad does not exceed ten. Only in 2011 accounted for 3% Colombian international transfers (345 in total). Simple math: a greater number of players competing in competitive leagues, the greater the chance of having a competitive selection.

4.       One plus one equals ... three? In 2009 a study was conducted among 61 countries to measure and compare the level of school students. Peru ranked second to last, ahead of Kyrgyzstan. They did not go to the World Cup. Do you see the pattern? It accuses the National Team players have poor concentration, low self-esteem, of being unable to handle the pressure. Without good education at home and in school is impossible to demand that they are good players, much less better people.

5.       The "Burguismo". Under the leadership of President Manuel Burga as FPF, Peru never qualified for a World Cup. Although this failure is of universal proportions, his work is not limited to that. Since he took office and promised economic changes in the local tournament football. And he fulfilled: now we are worse.

It is clear that to fight the classification is necessary to begin to correct the problems of Peruvian soccer that are old and familiar. But there is one issue: the leaders who have the task of changing the things they want everything to stay the same, because they live in informality and the need to continue in their posts.

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina first qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Bosnia-Herzegovina made history in Kaunas, a nervy 1-0 win over Lithuania securing their ticket to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, which will be their first-ever appearance at a major finals. Stuttgart striker Vedad Ibisevic was the man of the night, scoring a 68th-minute goal in this decisive Group G qualifier. Since gaining independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992, the Bosnians have agonizingly all too often tripped up at the last qualifying hurdle, as they did against Portugal in the play-offs for South Africa 2010 and UEFA EURO 2012.

With Greece taking a seventh-minute lead against Liechtenstein in Athens to assume the Group G summit, the task facing the Safet Susic-coached side was at least clear cut, a win now being essential to grab the automatic qualifying spot on goal difference from the goal-shy Greeks. Desperate to avoid the play-offs Bosnia emerged for the second half intent on finding a way past the in-form Arlauskas. The Lithuanian player made his third save from a Miralem Pjanic free-kick minutes after the restart, with Ermin Bicakcic volleying the rebound high.  Then, with the clock ticking, Ibisevic finally put Bosnia in World Cup heaven. Set up by Edin Dzeko from the left, the 29-year-old side-footed past Arlauskas to secure Bosnia top spot in Group G and their long-awaited and fully deserved ticket to Brazil next year.

European play-off

The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil European play-off draw took place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich as the eight best runners-up in the European qualifying competition learned their fate.  The teams still in contention for the remaining four of the continent’s 13 places at the final tournament were paired up as follows:

Portugal - Sweden
Ukraine - France
Greece - Romania
Iceland - Croatia

Portugal (ranked 14), Greece (15), Croatia (18) and Ukraine (20) were the seeded teams while France (21), Sweden (25), Romania (29) and Iceland (46) were unseeded, based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of 17 October 2013. The draw was conducted by Gordon Savic, Head of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, with the assistance of Alexander Frei, the former Swiss international. The home-and-away play-off matches are due to be played on 15 November and 19 November respectively. The team which scores the greater number of goals in the two matches qualifies. In the event of a tie, the team that scores the greater number of away goals will qualify. If the winner is still not decided, the second-leg match will go to extra time with two periods of 15 minutes each, with the away goals rule still applied. If no goals are scored in extra time, then the penalty kick procedures will apply, as described in the Laws of the Game.

Confereration of African Football Qualification (CAF)

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification sees 52 teams competing for 5 of the 32 berths in the final tournament in Brazil. The proposed format, announced on 16 May 2011, began in November 2011 with a first round of 12 two-legged knock-out ties. The ties, involving the 24 lowest-ranked teams according to FIFA World Rankings, were drawn in Brazil on 30 July 2011. The 12 winners joined the remaining 28 CAF entrants in the second round, which consists of 10 groups of 4. The winners of each group – held between June 2012 and September 2013 – will advance to a third round of 5 two-legged knock-out ties. The 5 winners of these ties – held in October and November 2013 – will advance to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.

First round: The first round consisted of 12 home-and-away ties, featured the 24 lowest ranked teams in Africa. The ties were drawn at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The winners of these series proceeded to the second round.

Second round: The second round will see the top 28 ranked CAF teams joined by the 12 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into ten groups of four teams at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The matches are scheduled to be played from 1 June 2012 to 7 September 2013. The top team from each group will advance to the third round.

Third round: The third round will see the 10 group winners from the second round drawn into five home-and-away ties. The winners of each tie will advance to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.

Matches: The matches are schedules to be played in the periods of 11-15 October and 15-19 November 2013.

Ivory Coast – Senegal  

1st leg: 3 - 1

2st leg: 16 Nov

Ethiopia – Nigeria

1st leg: 1 - 2
2st leg: 16 Nov

 

Tunisia – Cameroon

1st leg: 0 - 0

2st leg: 17 Nov

Ghana – Egypt

1st leg: 6 - 1
2st leg: 19 Nov

Burkina Faso - Algeria

1st leg: 3 - 2
2st leg:19Nov                                                                                                                                                 

 

Oceanian Football Confederation Qualification (OFC)

The initial format was scheduled to begin in August 2011 at the 2011 Pacific Games in Noumea, New Caledonia, where the men's football tournament was to double as the first stage of the OFC World Cup qualifying competition.

First round: Based on FIFA ranks and other sporting considerations, the first round featured American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga and were played as a single round-robin tournament in Samoa from 22 to 26 November 2011. The winner of the group advanced to the second round.

Second round: The winner of the first round joined the remaining seven OFC teams in the 2012 OFC Nations Cup. The four semi-finalists (the top two teams from each group in the group stage) advanced to the third round. The groups were drawn at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The tournament was held in the Solomon Islands from 1 to 10 June 2012. Fiji had been the proposed host, but had their hosting rights revoked on 14 March 2012.
Third round: The four remaining teams played a double round-robin between 7 September 2012 and 26 March 2013, with the top team advancing to the intercontinental play-off. The draw for the fixtures was conducted at OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand on 26 June 2012. The matches were scheduled to take place in the period from 7 September 2012 to 26 March 2013.

The winner of the OFC qualification tournament, New Zealand, will play against CONCACAF's fourth-placed team (Mexico) in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualifies for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

 

CONCACAF Qualification

The CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup consisted of four rounds of competition, in which the 35 member nations competed for three automatic berths at the finals in Brazil. The United States, Costa Rica, and Honduras qualified. The fourth-place finisher, Mexico, will play a two-game series against New Zealand, the first-place team from Oceania, for the final place at the Finals.

The proposed format, which was subsequently accepted by FIFA, consists of 4 stages.

1. Round One. Teams ranked 26–35 will play-off to reduce the number of entrants to 30.

2. Round Two. 6 groups of 4 teams. This round includes the 5 qualifiers from the preliminary round plus teams ranked 7–25. The top team in each group advances to the next stage.

3. Round Three (Semifinal round). 3 groups of 4. Teams ranked 1–6 face off against the 6 group winners from the previous round. The top two in each group advance.

4. Round Four (Hexagonal). The top two teams in each group from the semifinal round compete in one group of 6. The top three teams advance to the World Cup finals, while the 4th place team advances to an intercontinental play-off.

First round: The first round of the CONCACAF qualifiers saw the bottom 10 teams being paired up into five home-and-away series, with the highest ranked team facing the lowest ranked team and so on. The winners of these series proceeded to the second round. The matchups were announced by FIFA on 26 April 2011. Early indications were that the matches would be played on 3 and 7 June 2011; however, the matches were postponed to scattered days in June and July, between 15 June and 17 July. The 5 winners (in bold, below) advanced to the second round of the CONCACAF qualifiers: Belize, Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia, and the Bahamas.

Second round: In the second round, the teams ranked 7–25 were joined by the 5 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 2 September to 15 November 2011. The top team from each group advanced to the third round.

Third round: The third round saw the top 6 seeds joined by the 6 group winners from the second round. These teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. These matches were played from 8 June to 16 October 2012. The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.

Fourth round: In the fourth round, the three group winners and three runners-up from the third round competed in a double round robin, including a home and away match against the other five teams between 6 February and 15 October 2013. The round is informally referred to as the 'Hexagonal'. The top three teams qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals, while the fourth-placed team will play a home-away series against New Zealand, the winner of Oceania. Teams are ranked first by total points in all games, then, if tied, by best goal differential in all games, then by total goals in all games. If still tied, the same criteria are applied to games among the tied teams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asian Football Confederation Qualification (AFC)

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) section of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification sees 43 teams competing for 4 or 5 berths in the final tournament in Brazil. 43 of the 46 AFC national teams entered qualification. A ranking list for the qualification rounds was released by AFC on 8 March 2011, with an updated list released due to the non-participation of Guam and Bhutan.

The rankings determined the round of qualification that teams began competition:

Teams ranked 1–5 (the teams that competed in the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals and the intercontinental play-offs) do not compete in the qualification rounds, and automatically qualify for the first group stage (drawn in Brazil in July 2011).
Teams ranked 6–27 (other teams that advanced past the first round in 2010 qualification, plus the three first round losers with the 'best' results) receive a bye to the second round of qualification.
Teams ranked 28–43 enter at the first round.

First Round: The first round consisted of eight home-and-away series, featuring the 16 lowest ranked teams in Asia. The winners of these series proceeded to the second round.                                 

Second Round: The second round consisted of fifteen home-and-away series, featuring the 8 winners from the first round and other 22 teams ranked 6–27. The winners of these series then proceeded to the third round.                                                                                                          

Third Round: The third round saw the 5 automatic qualifiers joined by the 15 winners from the second round. These teams were drawn into five groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 2 September 2011 to 29 February 2012. The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.                                                                                                                         

Fourth Round: The fourth round saw the group winners and runners-up from the third round play in two groups of five. The top two teams from each group advanced to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, while the two third-placed teams advance to the fifth round. So far, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Iran have qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.                                                                    

Fifth Round: The two teams who finished third in the fourth round groups (Jordan and Uzbekistan) played each other to determine the AFC participant in the intercontinental   play-off. The draw for the fifth round of the AFC qualifiers was held in Zürich on 19 March 2013 during meetings of the Organizing Committee for the FIFA World Cup. The games took place on 6 and 10 September 2013. With the two teams still evenly matched at full time in the second leg, Jordan eventually progressed to the intercontinental playoff after winning 9–8 on penalties.

 

UEFA Qualification

The European Zone of qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup will see 53 teams competing for 13 places at the finals in Brazil.  The teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five, with the nine group winners qualifying directly into the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The eight best runners-up (determined by records against the first-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place teams in their groups to ensure balance between different groups) are drawn in two-legged play-offs that will determine the other four qualifying nations. After all the matches concluded, these are the group winners: Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, and Spain. These 9 countries qualified directly to the 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP.  There are still 4 berths. These are going to define in the Play-offs between 8 countries: Croatia, Sweden, Romania, Iceland, Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, and France.

 

CONMEBOL Qualification

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. In this edition, nine teams played against each other. The top four teams automatically qualified for the finals. The fifth-place team will compete in the intercontinental play-offs against the fifth-place team from the Asian Football Confederation's World Cup qualifying tournament. After all the matches concluded, Argentina finished in first place with 32 points, Colombia in second place with 30 points, Chile in third with 28 points, Ecuador in fourth place with 25 points, Uruguay in fifth place with 25 place, Venezuela in the sixth place with 20 points, Peru in the seventh place with 15 points, Bolivia in the eighth place with 12 points and finally Paraguay in the last place with 12 points.

 

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

In total 202 of the 208 FIFA member federations take part in the qualifiers. As the host nation, Brazil automatically qualifies for the tournament.  On March 3, 2011 during a meeting in Zurich, FIFA ruled that the distribution of the 31 seats, excluding these the host Brazil, would be: Asian Football Confederation: 4 or 5 berths, Confederation of African Football: 5 berths, CONCACAF: 3 or 4 berths, CONMEBOL: 4 or 5 berths, Oceania Football Confederation: 0,5 berths and UEFA: 13 berths. We already know the qualified teams: Brazil, Japan, Australia, Iran, South Korea, Netherlands, Italy, Costa Rica, United States, Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Colombia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Honduras. Still, we need to know the name of others 11 teams to complete the 32 berths for the World Cup.

 

2014 FIFA WORLD CUP

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA world Cup, an international football tournament that is scheduled to take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. Brazil won the right to host the event on 30 October 2007 as the only country to enter the bidding process. It will be the second time that Brazil has hosted the competition, the previous being in 1950. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. Thirty-two countries' teams will take part in the finals tournament, playing in 12 cities throughout Brazil. Also, Spain is the defending champion, having defeated the Netherlands 1–0 in the 2010 World Cup final. The sale of tickets for the World Cup started on 20 August 2013. An estimated 3.3 million tickets will be available and the majority will be sold through FIFA's website.

Tennis

Tennis is a sport that people usually play individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racquet that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The objective of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good return. In my opinion tennis is the third most popular sport because it is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racquet, including wheelchair users. Tennis is played by millions of recreational players and is also a popular worldwide spectator sport. The four Grand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the "Majors") are especially popular: the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.

 

Socccer

Soccer is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. For me, it's the most popular sport in the world because it is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries. The most popular teams are in Europe. The top five of European leagues  are the Bundesliga (Germany), Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Serie A (Italy), and Ligue 1 (France) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £600 million/€763 million/US$1.185 billion. The major international competition in football is the World Cup, organized by FIFA. The most prestigious competitions in club football are the respective continental championships, which are generally contested between national champions, for example the "UEFA Champions League" in Europe and the "Copa Libertadores de America" in South America. The winners of each continental competition contest the FIFA Club World Cup.
 

 

Basketball

Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop. In my opinion, it's the second most popular sport in the world . In this sport the ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate. It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. Violations are called "fouls". A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball. As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structure. Typically, the tallest members of a team will play "center", "power forward" or "small forward" positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play "point guard" or "shooting guard".