Pedro Castillo, President of Peruwas convinced this Sunday that his country’s team will beat Australia on Monday in the playoff match for the penultimate place for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
“Peru knows that tomorrow (this Monday) we are going to win“Castillo declared in an interview with the state channel TV Peru, after serving more than 100 days since his last statement to the press.
The president of Peru also referred to his government’s decision to declare Monday, the date of the transcendental commitment, a national holiday for the public sector, a gesture that he described as “a gift to the best fans in the world.”
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“Tomorrow (this Monday) Peru wins and here they have a government that is going to do a lot for sports,” insisted Castillo.
The Peruvian soccer team celebrates this Sunday its last day of training in Doha, where it arrived on Friday after completing its practices at the San Cugat High Performance Sports Center in Barcelona.
The clash with Australia will be this Monday, June 13 at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the Bicolor will seek to qualify for the final phase of the World Cup for the second time in a row, after Russia in 2018, when it achieved a historic return to an event of this type after 36 years.
La Blanquirroja arrived in the Qatari capital in high spirits, after winning 1-0 against New Zealand in the friendly played in Barcelonacrowded by Peruvian fans, with a goal won in the 69th minute of play by striker Gianluca Lapadula.
The last and only time that Peru and Australia met was in the first round of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in a clash that ended with a 2-0 victory in favor of the South Americans.
EFE
