Chile national football team
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| Associatoon
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| Juvenal Olmos (2003-)
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| Most capped player
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| Marcelo Salas: 34
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| First International
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Argentina 3 - 1 Chile
(Buenos Aires, Argentina; 27 May, 1910)
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| Largest win
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Chile 7 - 0 Venezuela
(Santiago, Chile; 29 August, 1979)
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Chile 7 - 0 Armenia
(Santiago, Chile; 5 January, 1997)
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| Largest defeat
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Brazil 7 - 0 Chile
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 17 September, 1959)
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| World Cup
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Finals appearances: 7 (First: 1930)
Best result: Third place, 1962
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| Copa America
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Finals appearances: 34 (First: 1916)
Best result: Second place, 1955, 1956*, 1979, 1987
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The Chile national football team best World Cup finish is third place in 1962, when the finals were hosted in Chile. Chile beat Yugoslavia 1-0 in the third place match.
Between 1990 and 1994, Chile was barred from participating in the World Cup by FIFA. It resulted from an incident during a qualifier with Brazil, when the Chilean goalkeeper Robert Rojas pretending to be seriously injured by firecrackers thrown from the Brazilian sections of the crowd, to try and force the abandonment of the match. Brazil were leading 1-0 with 23 minutes left and a defeat would have meant Chile would have not qualified for the World Cup. Hoping for a rematch, Chilean officials and medical staff escorted the players off the pitch. After studying a video of the match, FIFA realised that the firecracker had not made contact with Rojas and the event had been a deception on the part of the Chile team. They banned Rojas for life from football, awarded Brazil a 2-0 win and banned Chile from the 1994 World Cup.
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