Сб. Боливии / Bolivia National Team

Nickname(s) La Verde (The Green one)

Association Federacion Boliviana de Fútbol
Confederation CONMEBOL (South America)
Most caps Luis Cristaldo, Marco Sandy (93)
Top scorer Wiltor S. (16)
Home stadium Estadio Hernando Siles
FIFA code BOL
FIFA ranking 71
Highest FIFA ranking 18 (July 1997)
Lowest FIFA ranking 114 (July 2003)
Elo ranking 58

The Bolivia national football team is the national team of Bolivia and is controlled by the Federación Boliviana de Fútbol. It is historically one of the weakest teams in 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 never advanced past the first round of any World Cup, but did win the Copa America once, in 1963.

Bolivia National Team