SANTA FE, July 9, 2011 (AFP) - An enthusiastic Colombia will seek, on Sunday, in Santa Fe, a qualification for the quarterfinals of the Copa America, when the tea will face Bolivia, which is still plagued defeat by surprise by 2-0 against Costa Rica.For the meeting, the coach Hernan Dario "bolillo" Gomez will keep the same squad that drew goalless against Argentina, with the taste of victory, in the stadium of Colón, the "Graveyard of the Elephants."
"We know that this game is what will define our next step to the next stage of the Copa America and we want to win it and we play for that, with all the respect that Bolivia deserves, but we get the win", said coach after training in Santa Fe.
On the other side, the pressure is higher for the coach Gustavo Quinteros, who is aware of the quality of his rival, but said he would seek a win.
We have to leave for the game against Colombia, even though this is a complicated rival. We have several players out through suspension, but have to get the result in this tournament anyone can win", said Gustavo Quinteros after the defeat to Costa Rica.
Quinteros had already expressed their satisfaction with the performance and evolution of their players in the last game, despite the result.
"We must separate the loss of income. The team tried to generate some situations and clearer, but sometimes these things happen. The team has not given up, except when the we got less players. And before the red cards we did not take a goal, so I say that I liked the performance”, he added.
The game, which will begin at 16:00 local (19:00 GMT) and will be directed by the Mexican Francisco Chacón, assisted by his compatriot Marvin Torrente and the Venezuelan Luis Sanchez.
Colombia: 12-Luis Martínez, 18-Camilo Zúñiga, 14-Luis Perea, 3-Mario Yepes, 7-Pablo Armero, 6-Carlos Sánchez, 17-Dayro Moreno, 13-Freddy Guarín, 8-Abel Aguilar, 20-Adrián Ramos, 9-Radamel Falcao García. Coach: Hernán Darío Gómez.
Bolivia: 1-Carlos Arias, 14-Christian Vargas, 16-Ronald Raldes, 13-Santos Amador, 4-Lorgio Alvarez; 8-Ronald García, 15-Jaime Robles, 21-Jhasmani Campos, 7-Edivaldo Rojas; 17-Juan Carlos Arce and 9-Marcelo Moreno Martins. Coach: Gustavo Quinteros.
Colombia: The "cafetero" team has as its major player on the Copa America, Radamel Falcao García. The Colombian striker has the mission to bring Colombia back the beautiful views of the 90's, when the team ahd Valderrama, Asprilla and Rincon. After winning the Portuguese league and the undefeated EuropeLeague with Porto-POR, he is wanted by many teams in Europe. Other stars of this team are Freddy Guarín (fellow of Falcao Garcia in Porto-POR), Mario Yepes and Camilo Zúñiga.
Bolivia: In the Bolivian side, the main focus for this difficult meeting is Marcelo Moreno. The 24 year old striker is the player who did the most goals for the squad called to the Copa America with eight goals. Another hope is the experienced Ronald Raldes. Defender, 30, is the player who player more times for Bolivia between the ones capped. In addition, this edition will be its fourth for him (played Raldes in 2001, 2004 and 2007). Bolivia had two players sent off against Costa Rica: Ronald Rivero, Walter Flores and the defender Luis Gutierrez received a second yellow card and is out of the game as well.
- This confrontation happened 24 times, with nine victories of Colombia, Bolivia has 6 wins and 9 draws. Colombia scored 31 goals and Bolivia has 26.
- For the Copa America, were 11 matches with three wins of Colombia, Bolivia has 3 wins and 5 draws. The team "cafetero" has 12 goals, while Bolivia scored 14 times.
- The top scorer of the clash in the Copa America is the midfielder Carlos Valderrama, with three goals.
- Bolivia has an attack who speaks Portuguese. Marcelo Moreno played for many years in Brazil and Edivaldo Rojas, who is Brazilian, but whose mother is Bolivian and managed a citizenship to the play the Copa America. In fact, Edivaldo made the only Bolivian goal against Argentina.
- Mario Yepes is the player in the squad with more participation in the Copa America, this is his fourth.
- The two teams have won one Copa America. Interestingly they only won when they played at home (Bolivia in 1963, and Colombia in 2001).
In the last duel, Colombia won Bolivia for the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers. The victory by 2-0 was in Bogota, Colombia, in 2009. The goals were scored by Macnelly Torres and Wason Rentería (which were not summoned to the 2011 Copa America).
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