{"id":8480,"date":"2025-06-10T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:42:31","slug":"chile-lost-to-bolivia-and-was-left-out-of-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/chile-lost-to-bolivia-and-was-left-out-of-the-2026-world-cup-10062025\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Lost to Bolivia and Was Left Out of the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In another very poor display of soccer, the Chilean national team lost 2-0 against Bolivia and was definitively out of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this result, <em>La Roja<\/em> remains at the bottom of the standings with only 10 points and without any possibility of reaching even the seventh place and playing in the intercontinental playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team coached by Argentine Ricardo Gareca received the first blow in the fourth minute, when, in a good play by the Bolivian team, striker Miguel Terceros opened the scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chile had numerical advantage on the field since 17&#8242;, when the Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich sent off the Bolivian Lucas Ch\u00e1vez for a violent kick against Fabian Hormaz\u00e1bal; however, this superiority was not reflected in the actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the second half, Gareca made three changes, but one of the new players, Francisco Sierralta, only lasted nine minutes on the pitch, as a brutal and unnecessary kick against an opponent earned him a red card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already on equal terms and with the wear and tear of the altitude of the <em>El Alto stadium<\/em>, <em>La Roja <\/em>suffered a constant siege that came to fruition at 89&#8242;, when Brayan Cort\u00e9s did not hold a shot and left the ball at the feet of Enzo Monteiro, who scored at his pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another very poor display of soccer, the Chilean national team lost 2-0 against Bolivia and was definitively out of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. With&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}