{"id":11078,"date":"2017-11-16T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11078"},"modified":"2017-11-16T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:58:23","slug":"peru-makes-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2017\/11\/16\/peru-makes-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru Makes World Cup for First Time Since 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peruvian national team reached a goal that three months ago looked almost impossible: clinching a spot in next year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Peru Makes World Cup for First Time Since 1982<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>It happened at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, with <em>La Blanquirroja<\/em> winning 2-0 in an intercontinental playoff game against New Zealand and becoming the 32nd and final team to book its ticket to Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tufpfoficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peru<\/a><\/strong> sees its dream come true after a difficult path in the CONMEBOL qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first leg game, Jefferson Farfan netted the first goal in the 28th minute, with Christian\u00a0Ramos adding another in the 62nd. Both scores resulted in pandemonium among the home fans.<\/p>\n<p>Just three months ago, Peru found themselves sixth in CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying, and hoping desperately for points. Between now and then, Chile incredibly went down and this Peruvian team advanced one spot to fifth, good enough to get into the intercontinental playoff.<\/p>\n<p>Peru seemed to be hurt <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/11\/04\/fifa-suspend-peru-striker-paolo-guerrero-amid-doping-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after the suspension of its main striker Paolo Guerrero<\/a> for doping. But the South Americans overcame that situation and now find themselves among the field of 32. It&#8217;s been nearly 40 years since Peru competed in World Cup matches, but that&#8217;s all bound to change beginning next June.<\/p>\n<p>Peru&#8217;s government decreed a national holiday after the historical qualification, with Thursday guaranteed to be full of celebrations throughout the country.<\/p>\n<h4>These are the 32 teams qualified for the World Cup 2018<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Host country<\/strong>: Russia<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFRICA<\/strong>: Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASIA<\/strong>: Saudi Arabia, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>EUROPE<\/strong>: Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, England, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland, Sweden<\/p>\n<p><strong>North America (CONCACAF)<\/strong>: Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama<\/p>\n<p><strong>South America (CONMEBOL)<\/strong>: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup begins on June 14th of next year, with the championship match set to take place on July 15th. Italy is the only former world champion who didn&#8217;t qualify.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the\u00a021st\u00a0FIFA World Cup and the first in a Eastern European country.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"_CQ0FqIOTFVRVUB2qqQ-Fg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/874748260\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'_CQ0FqIOTFVRVUB2qqQ-Fg',sig:'hBdEe7cO83YAAZu24GEl38nqb0WXl_T5LEo3rRhHFv8=',w:'594px',h:'373px',items:'874748260',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peru became the final team to punch their ticket to Russia after a 2-0 win over New Zealand on Wednesday, clinching their first World Cup berth since 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2126,"featured_media":11084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1057,1518,129,1517,1487,1506,656],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-tournament","tag-2018-fifa-world-cup","tag-christian-cueva","tag-fifa","tag-jefferson-farfan","tag-new-zealand-soccer","tag-peru-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}