The Peru national football team has represented Peru in international football since 1927. Organised by the Peruvian Football Federation, it is one of ten members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), playing most home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima. Peru took part in the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 and the 1936 Olympic football competition. Goalkeeper Juan Valdivieso and forwards Teodoro Fernández and Alejandro Villanueva led the squad to wins in the 1938 Bolivarian Games and the 1939 Copa América. The team won the Copa América in 1975 and qualified for three World Cups in the 1970s with Hugo Sotil, defender Héctor Chumpitaz, and Teófilo Cubillas, the player often regarded as Peru's greatest. Peru last qualified for the World Cup in 1982 (team pictured). Players wear white shirts adorned with a red diagonal stripe, Peru's national colours. This basic design has been used continuously since 1936, and gives rise to the team's common Spanish nickname, la Blanquirroja ("the white-and-red"). The team has longstanding rivalries with Chile and Ecuador.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

44 BC:

Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death (painting by Vincenzo Camuccini pictured) by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar

1311:

The Catalan Company defeated Walter V, Count of Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmyros

1875:

Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCloskey

1945:

World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesian_Offensive

1990:

Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

enshrine: 1. (transitive) To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest. 2. (transitive) To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshrine

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.   --Henry Royce https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Royce