{"id":9841,"date":"2025-06-11T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chile-out-of-the-2026-world-cup-alexis-asks-forgiveness-after-defeat-against-bolivia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:14:27","slug":"chile-out-of-the-2026-world-cup-alexis-asks-forgiveness-after-defeat-against-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/chile-out-of-the-2026-world-cup-alexis-asks-forgiveness-after-defeat-against-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Out of the 2026 World Cup: Alexis Asks Forgiveness After Defeat Against Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chile Out of the World Cup: The Golden Generation Says Goodbye<\/h2>\n\n\nChile&#8217;s national team will not be present in its third consecutive World Cup, after falling 2-0 to Bolivia last Tuesday. This result keeps them in the last position of the South American competition, leaving behind the hopes of qualifying for the 2026 tournament to be held in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.\n\nBolivia, for its part, keeps alive the hope of accessing the intercontinental play-off.\n\nThe top six teams from the South American qualifiers will earn a direct spot in the World Cup. Argentina, the current champion, has already secured its qualification.\n\nThe Chilean golden generation, which won two Copa Am\u00e9rica titles in 2015 and 2016, will not be in the next edition of the tournament, which will feature 48 teams.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Sad, I feel bad. I never experienced anything like this. We have to apologize to the people,&#8221; declared Alexis S\u00e1nchez, veteran forward of Chile, after the match. &#8220;We have to keep working. There are already changes, the golden generation is buried, I am the only one left&#8221;.<\/p><cite>Alexis S\u00e1nchez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0610%2Fr1505023_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Alexis S\u00e1nchez y Chile se perder\u00e1n su tercer Mundial consecutivo.\nGaston Brito Miserocchi\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nBolivia opened the scoring with a goal by Miguel Terceros in the fifth minute, and added the second in the 90th minute, by Enzo Monteiro, at the El Alto Stadium, located at 4,150 meters altitude, on the outskirts of La Paz.\n\nWith this result, the Bolivians have a total of 17 points, putting pressure on Venezuela, which has 18 and will play later against Uruguay. Both teams are vying for seventh place, which grants access to the intercontinental play-off. Colombia, which occupies sixth position, has 21 points.\n\nEcuador could secure their spot with a victory against Peru. Brazil and Paraguay, who will face each other in Sao Paulo, could also seal their qualification if they win and Venezuela loses in Montevideo.\n\nArgentina and Colombia also faced each other on Tuesday.\n\nBolivia&#8217;s future will be defined in September, when it faces Colombia as a visitor and Brazil at home.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile Out of the World Cup: The Golden Generation Says Goodbye Chile&#8217;s national team will not be present in its third consecutive World Cup, after falling 2-0 to Bolivia last Tuesday. This result keeps them in the last position of the South American competition, leaving behind the hopes of qualifying for the 2026 tournament to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3852,3728,2288,2015],"class_list":{"0":"post-9841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexis-sanchez","9":"tag-bolivia","10":"tag-chile","11":"tag-copa-america"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}