FRANCE98 – Colombia Team Page

13th Qualifier Confederation: CONMEBOL

(South America)

Land area: 1,134,914 km2

Population: 35,101,000

Capital: Bogota

Main cities: Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla

System of government: Republic

Head of state: Ernesto Samper

Currency: Peso

Time difference: 6 hours behind Paris

24 April 96 Colombia -Paraguay 1-0

2 June 96 Peru-Colombia 1-1

7 july 96 Colombia -Uruguay 3-1

1 September 96 Colombia-Chile 4-1

9 October 96 Ecuador- Colombia 0-1

10 November 96 Bolivia- Colombia 2-2

15 November 96 Venezuela-Colombia 0-2

12 February 97 Colombia-Argentina 0-1

2 April 97 Paraguay- Colombia 2-1

30 April 97 Colombia-Peru 0-1

8 June 97 Uruguay-Colombia 1-1

5 July 97 Chile-Colombia 4-1

20 July 97 Colombia-Ecuador 1-0

20 August 97 Colombia-Bolivia 3-0

10 September 97 Colombia-Venezuela 1-0

27 points 22 goals scored

14 goals conceded

Goalkeeper: O. Cordoba (age 27, 26 caps)

Defenders: Cabrera (age 30, 38 caps) Bermudez (age 26, 42 caps) I. Cordoba (age 21, 9 caps)

Galeano (age 33, 10 caps)

Mid-field: Serna (age 29, 36 caps) Lozano (age 25, 22 caps) Valderrama (age 36, 101 caps

Rincon (age 31-68 caps)

Striker: Asprilla (age 27-44 caps)
De Avila (age 34-31 caps)

Number of players used during the qualifying rounds: 37

National team colours: yellow, blue, red

FIFA ranking (on 16 October 1997): 11th

World Cup: participated 3 times (1962, 1990, 1994)

1962: eliminated in first round 1990: eliminated in round of sixteen

1994: eliminated in first round

Hernan Dario Gomez
Herman Darion Gomez took up his duties as Colombian Team Coach after the 1994 World Cup finals. He coached the Colombian Olympic team in 1993 a year after becoming Francisco Maturana’s right-hand man in charge of the national team. Gomez spent his playing career in Medellin, first as a member of the Independiete eleven, and later with Atletico.