La Roja is looking forward to the 2026 qualifiers starting on September 8. He started 2023 with three wins and a draw.
The Chile national team already has venues and set times to play their friendlies on the June FIFA date, which will be the last pinch before the start of the South American qualifiers on the road to the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Chile’s schedule in World Cup qualifiers
The first game was set for Sunday the 11th, the day they won 3-0 against their Cuban counterpart at the Ester Roa Rebolledo. Then on the 16th, La Roja moved to the Sausalito Stadium to beat the Dominican Republic to the beat of Brereton Díaz (3) and Barticciotto (2). In the end, Eduardo Berizzo’s team then sounded the alarm tied in white against Boliviain Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a direct rival in the qualifications.
Note that the qualification process will begin on September 8 against Uruguay, in a clash that will be marked by the reunion of the Creole representative with Marcelo Bielsa, the brand new coach of the Charrúas. Crazy led his last game as commander of the nationals January 23, 2011, in a friendly match UNITED STATES, in Los Angeles. ended with 28 wins and 8 draws in 51 gamesreaching one 60.1% yield.
The format that will be used is the same as in the last editions of the qualifying round. The 10 national teams of the CONMEBOL member associations will compete against each other in a unique group, all against each other in two rounds of competition, one at home and the other as a visitor.
No official schedule of the 48th edition of this tournament which will start on June 20 next year in the United States and will end on July 14, as announced by the CONMEBOL which sealed a partnership agreement with CONCACAF allowing the participation of 10 South American teams and six guests North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
After being omitted from the World Cup in Qatar, the Chile national team was reactivated. After completing a friendly against South Korea, losing 2-0 in Daejeon, in June he took part in the Kirin Cup, a match that took place in Japan and in which he was passed by Tunisia and Ghana to finish on fourth place. In 2022, the first friendly match took place in Danjeon, Japan, a few days before the start of the Kirin Cup: with Son in the lead, South Korea won.
Note that this was his second participation in this traditional friendly home run after his participation in 2009. That year, those then led by Marcelo Bielsa suffered a defeat against the Japanese country (4-0), at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, and said goodbye with a draw against Belgium (1-1), at the Fukuda Denshi Arena in Chiba, with a score by Gary Medel.
It is similar to Qatar He confirmed the game against Eduardo Berizzo’s men on the FIFA date in September and prepared for what will be his appearance in the Asian tournament that starts in November. The match was played at the Franz Horr Stadium in Vienna, Austria, on the 27th and ended in a two-goal draw by Alexis Sánchez, Arturo Vidal, Afif and Al Haydos.
But before clashing with the organizer of the planetary event, the Creole representative lost without appeal against Morocco on Friday the 23rd at the RCDE stadium, the popular Cornellá-El Prat, in Spain.
Meanwhile, for the November FIFA date, the national representative was measured Poland at the Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw, for the debut of the Europeans in the World Cup in which they will compete in Group C which they share with Argentina, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. It became a 1-0 defeat thanks to a late goal from Krzysztof Piątek.
The last meeting of the “Everyone’s Team” with the Poles took place on June 8, 2018 in Poznan, with a two-goal draw. Diego Valdés and Miiko Albornoz scored for Chile, while Robert Lewandowski and Piotr Zieliński scored for the Águilas Blancas.
It was measured against it four days later Slovakia, at the NFŠ stadium in Bratislava, signing tables. They have played three games against the Falcons, without ever winning: first they lost 1-2 in November 2009 in Žilina and before that they were beaten 0-2 in Valparaíso (2000) as part of the Copa Ciudad de Valparaíso .
What’s next? The 2026 qualifiers. There are no more friendly tests, but there will be microcycles with Chilean league footballers in the summer.
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Chile’s passage through the 2022 World Cup qualifiers:
The ten South American national teams were ready for the road to the qualifiers towards Qatar 2022. However, the global outbreak of the coronavirus forced all plans to change and it was agreed between FIFA and CONMEBOL to set the first two agreed dates for March and the two in September, like the Copa América, scheduled for June, which jumped from one year to the next (2020 to 2021). Chile failed to qualify and did not go to Russia 2018.
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Later, the organization ratified the changes to the calendar, which included the start of the South American qualifiers with a double date between October 8 and 13, days when the Chilean national team lost due to Uruguay, as a visitor, and drawn against Colombia at home. In the second call, La Roja repositioned itself with a 2-0 win over Peru thanks to Arturo Vidal’s goals and Claudio Bravo’s saves.
After the defeat to Venezuela in Caracas, CONMEBOL decided to suspend the scheduled double date for March, when La Roja would face Paraguay and Ecuador. “The decision is due to the impossibility of counting on time and form with all South American players,” the confederation announced.
CONMEBOL decided that the double date – of days 7 and 8 – would take place in the month of June, in the context of the start of the Copa América. For example, Martín Lasarte made his debut in Santiago del Estero when the national team played a draw against Albiceleste on June 3. And then, five days later, they only played with Bolivia in Santiago.
“Temporarily, the Conmebol Selection Competitions Directorate, together with FIFA, will send more information regarding the implementation of the health and safety protocols planned for the competitions,” they said in a statement from the organization and did not distance themselves further in the record. against the Greens.
And last Monday September 13, after completing the duels against Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia, Conmebol made official the dates for October 11, 5 and 12 in which La Roja will face Peru, Paraguay and Venezuela, with the very painful defeat in Lima And the great triumph against that of Toto Berizzo added to priceless 3-0 win against Venezuela inSantiago. And just like against Bolivia, the home games were held in the Católica stadium, San Carlos de Apoquindo.
A big win in Asunción and an ugly fall by Ecuador in Santiago kept La Roja complicated, and with at least two to win – to go to the playoffs – between Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay. But they barely won one.
It is worth noting that the South American authority has authorized the match against Albiceleste on January 27 in the desert foxes stadium, in the town of Calama. The visitor won it, blocking the chances of Machete who moved to Bolivia, in La Paz, to take a win. And in the final double round, they sealed their luck after losing to Brazil and Uruguay to be left out of the Asian tournament in seventh place with just 19 points.
Historically regarded as the most complicated World Cup qualifier of the six confederations that make up FIFA, the South American qualifier for Qatar 2022 will end in November 2021. There was a double day in the months of October and November 2020, and since March it was not possible to play played for the cup.
The ball started rolling in October 2020. Ten teams played a doubles competition until 2022, when the four qualifiers that will be present at the planetary event were announced, while the fifth place, Peru, will face the representative of Asia in the resit.
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The next challenges? Copa América 2024 and fight for one of the 6.5 places at the 2026 World Cup.
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La Roja put Juan Pinto Durán in first place and beat his tie Bolivian in El Teniente in 2021. This crossing marked the premiere of Martin Lasarte on the bench of the Selection. This, after the suspension of the double elimination date in March. The Uruguayan made his first selection with several surprises with the aim of filming the most promising players at the local level and won it with an intergenerational team mixing rookies with the return to goal after 16 years of Mago Jiménez for Chile. Jean Meneses scored the other in the 2-1 win over the Altiplanos.
In his intention to reach the outcome of the qualifications in the best way, but with a very young team, La Roja drew 2-2 against Mexico And defeated El Salvador 1–0 in the second of their international friendlies, which endorsed the Tricolor selection on November 1 through a statement on its official channels. “For the first time in the 19-year history of the MexTour, the Mexican national team will play Chile on Wednesday, December 8 at 8 p.m. in Austin, Texas, playing two-time Copa América champions. Q2 stadium”. Meanwhile, with the Azul y Blanco they faced each other 4 days later, in Los Angeles, California, with more of a crowd from the rival, but a goal as wanted as it was deserved, which reached 96′ via Vegas.
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The 2020 Argentina-Colombia Copa América was played in Brazil in 2021 in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The game system was all against all, i.e. each team played five matches in their respective groups. This new format included the dispute over 38 games, 12 more than in the current format.
The balance of Reinaldo Rueda in the Copa América 2019
This was the second consecutive year the competition has been held, with Argentina as the current champions. It should be noted that after this edition, the continental competition will be held every four years, coinciding with the years in which the Eurocup is held.
In that case, the route of La Roja was determined, who finished his participation in the last tournament in fourth place after a 2-1 defeat against Argentina at the Arena Corinthians. Against Albiceleste they drew in their debut with the Nilton Santos, they beat Bolivia by a minimum with a goal from Ben Brereton, they scored a valuable 1-1 against Uruguay that took them into the quarter-finals and lost to Paraguay at the end of the group, before being knocked out in front of the venue by the slightest difference.
Source: Goal