LA PAZ — The Bolivian coach, Julio César Baldivieso, summoned 31 players this Wednesday, six of them from foreign clubs, for the third and fourth rounds of the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers, in which La Verde will face Venezuela and Paraguay.
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The main novelties are the call of the young Moisés Villarroel, 17 years old, who plays for the University of Chile, and Gustavo Pinedo, of the Argentine San Martín de San Juan.
Although they did not play in the first two dates, Martin Smedberg-Dalence, from the Swedish IFK Goteborg, and Danny Bejarano, from the Greek Panetolikos, have been summoned again.
Defender Diego Bejarano, who also plays for Panetolikos, and striker Jhasmani Campos, from Kuwait’s Kazma Sport Club, were included in Baldivieso’s roster.
The base of the squad is once again the players from the champion Bolívar and The Strongest, each with six players called up, including the ‘tabby’ goalkeeper Daniel Vaca, one of the Green captains, and the ‘light blue’ goalkeeper Diego Zamora.
In addition, the Brazilian-Bolivian Fernando Marteli, from The Strongest, was summoned.
The Bolivian team will begin the concentration on Monday, November 2 in La Paz, with the slogan of adding its first units in the qualifiers.
In their debut, Bolivia lost 0-2 at home to Uruguay and repeated a defeat by the same score on their visit to Ecuador.
Those led by Baldivieso will receive Venezuela on November 12 at the 3,600-meter altitude of La Paz and five days later they will visit Paraguay in Asunción.
The squad of 31 players called is as follows:
– ARCHERS: Daniel Vaca (The Strongest), Carlos Lampe (Sport Boys) and Diego Zamora (Bolívar).
– DEFENDERS: Erwin Saavedra and Ronald Eguino (Bolívar), Omar Morales and Edward Zenteno (Wilstermann), Fernando Marteli (The Strongest), Pablo Pedraza (Real Potosí), Rony Montero (Oriente Petrolero) and Diego Bejarano (Panetolikos-GRE).
– MIDFIELDERS: Raúl Castro, Walter Veizaga and Alejandro Chumacero (The Strongest), Leonel Morales (Sport Boys), Jorge Flores (University), Rudy Cardozo (Bolívar), Pedro Azogue (Oriente Petrolero), Samuel Galindo, Danny Bejarano (Panetolikos-GRE), Moisés Villarroel (University-CHI) and Martin Smedberg-Dalence (IFK Goteborg-SUE).
– FORWARDS: Jaime Arrascaita and Juan Carlos Arce (Bolívar), Leonardo Vaca and Paul Arano (Blooming), Rodrigo Ramallo (The Strongest), Yasmani Duk (Sport Boys), Gilbert Álvarez (Real Potosí), Jhasmani Campos (Kazma Sport Club-KUW) and Gustavo Pinedo (San Martin de San Juan-ARG).