Team 🇨🇴: Colombia
Current FIFA Ranking 📊: 16
Best World Cup result ✨: Quarter-final - 2014
Group fixtures 📆: June 19 vs Japan, June 24 vs Poland, June 28 vs Senegal
Captain: Radamel Falcao
Star Player ⭐: James Rodriguez
Head coach 👔: Jose Nestor Pekerman
Preferred formation: 4-2-3-1
Qualification Route:
Colombia finished fourth in the CONMEBOL standings for Russia 2018 qualifying after reaching the tournament on the final match day with a 1-1 draw in Peru.
Past Performances:
Colombia qualified for the 1990, 1994, and 1998 World Cups, only reaching the second round in 1990. They missed three World Cups between 2002 and 2010. After a 16-year-long wait, in 2014 Colombia finally returned to the World Cup, where they were able to advance to the quarter-finals, the furthest Colombia has ever made it in a World Cup. Colombia's midfielder James Rodriguez won two awards, the Golden Boot for most goals (6) and Best Goal of the Tournament.
They were the champions of the Copa America, which they hosted and set a new Copa America record of conceding no goals and winning each match. Prior to that success, they were runners-up to Peru in the 1975 Copa America. In total, Colombia has gained a top four result in seven Copa Américas. Colombia was the first team to win FIFA best mover in 1993 where the achievement was first introduced and the second team after Croatia to win it twice in 2012.
The Squad:
Goalkeepers: David Ospina, Camilo Vargas, Jose Fernando Cuadrado
Defenders: Cristian Zapata, Davinson Sanchez, Santiago Arias, Oscar Murillo, Farid Diaz, Johan Mojica, Yerry Mina
Midfielders: Wilmar Barrios, Carlos Sanchez, Jefferson Lerma, Jose Izquierdo, James Rodriguez, Abel Aguilar, Juan Fernando Quintero, Mateus Uribe, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado
Forwards: Radamel Falcao Garcia, Miguel Borja, Carlos Bacca, Luis Fernando Muriel
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