Peru will play against Denmark on June 16, 2018 in Saransk. Peru's national football team represents Peru at international football competitions since 1927. The team is controlled by the Peruvian Football Federation, which is part of CONEMEBOL and FIFA. Successful periods of the team fall on the 1930s and 1970s. Currently, the team is led by Uruguayan specialist Pablo Bengocea. Homeland matches are held at the National Stadium in Lima. Team Peru twice won the South American Championship (1939 and 1975), four times took part in the final stages of the world championships (1930, 1970, 1978 and 1982) and twice played at the Olympic Games (1936 and 1960). Has a long-standing rivalry with Chile and Ecuador. The team is well known for its white T-shirt, on which a red strip is located diagonally. White and red are the colors of the national flag, hence the nickname La Blanquirroja (White and Red). Peru took part in the inauguration of the World Cup in 1930 and the Bolivarian Games in 1938. The national team won the fifteenth championship in America. At that time there were such famous players as Juan Valdivieso, Teodoro Fernandez and Carlos Alejandro Villanueva. Also a successful period for the "white-red" is the 1970s. Then they three times got the right to play at mundiale and in 1975 they won the America's Cup. During this period the famous troika played: Hugo Sotil, Teofilo Cubillas and Hector Chumpitas. After the 1982 World Cup, Peru has never qualified for the final stage of the mundial until 2018. During the investigation of the Peruvian government in alleged corruption, FIFA temporarily suspended the national team from international matches in late 2008. Even after the team took third place in the America's Cup 2011, she could not reach the final stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.