Tuesday, June 7, 2022 – 3:27 pm
DUBAI, June 7 / WAM / The Peruvian national team, in its external camp in Barcelona, Spain, is following up on the decisive confrontation in the Asian qualifying playoff for the 2022 World Cup, which will bring together the UAE and Australia teams this evening in the Qatari capital, Doha, to know the team that will face it in the global supplement. It is scheduled for June 13 in the Qatari capital, Doha.
The Peruvian team, which ranked fifth in the South American Confederation (CONMEBOL) qualifiers for the World Cup, is preparing to face the winner of the Asian play-off meeting between the UAE and Australia, to determine the qualifier for the major World Cup.
The South American representative, who ranked fifth in the South American qualifiers, is going to an external camp in Barcelona, Spain, from Saturday before last, during which he played a friendly match against New Zealand, last Sunday, and won with a single goal in the match, which was held at the stadium / Cornella Albrat / in Barcelona, Spain, through Gianluca Lapadula, in the presence of a crowd of more than 32,000 Peruvians who supported their team in this friendly match to motivate them to qualify for the World Cup.
The Peruvian team benefited from a strong confrontation with New Zealand, the champions of the Oceania qualifiers, who are preparing to play a match against Costa Rica, who is fourth in the qualifiers for the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), in the World Cup qualifier also.
Peru ranked fifth in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, after Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador, who booked their seats directly and qualified for the World Cup, which will start in November.
The Peruvian national team, led by Argentine coach Ricardo Gareca, is seeking to qualify for the World Cup for the second time in a row after the last version in 2018, as it had previously qualified for the World Cup 5 times in 1930, 1970, 1978, 1982 and 2018, and if it qualified, this version would be the sixth in its history. And the second, respectively, for the first time.
The Peruvian national team is scheduled to continue its camp in Barcelona until June 10, when it travels to Doha to play the decisive confrontation on the 13th of the same month against the team qualified from the Asian playoffs in order to qualify for the World Cup.
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