{"id":5542,"date":"2021-04-17T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=5542"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T15:58:14","slug":"chile_qualified","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/blog\/portfolio-items\/chile_qualified\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile book historic ticket to round out Tokyo 2020 field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womensolympic\/news\/chile-book-historic-ticket-to-round-out-tokyo-2020-field<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"McSport fieldwork | Chile \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf1 x \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf2 Cameroon | Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Play-off\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2fn0q07gZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chile edge Cameroon 2-1 on aggregate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>La Roja<\/em> are headed to the Women&rsquo;s Olympic Football Tournament for the first time<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>All 12 teams confirmed for Tokyo 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chile clinched the final ticket for the Women&rsquo;s Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020 by edging Cameroon 2-1 on aggregate in their two-legged intercontinental play-off.<\/p>\n<p>The victory is hugely significant for Chilean women&rsquo;s football as it will be the first time in the nation&rsquo;s history that they will compete at the Olympics, building on their first appearance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womensworldcup\/archive\/france2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA Women&rsquo;s World Cup France 2019\u2122<\/a>. Although <em>La Roja<\/em> failed to progress past the group stage in France, they did claim a historic first victory at the world finals when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=niQYKeue3_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeated Thailand 2-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Letelier&rsquo;s side put in a solid, defensive performance to keep the Cameroonians at bay after they won the first leg 2-1 as the away side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--quote fi-o-article__body-part--quote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"d3-o-article__body-part--quote--text\">We are super proud to be the first Chilean women&rsquo;s team to qualify for the Olympics. This can be a precedent for other teams to work as well as we did. We are showing that Chilean women are strong, capable, athletic and can achieve everything they set out to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"d3-o-article__body-part--quote--author\">Chile captain and goalkeeper Christiane Endler<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\">\n<p>Chile earned their place in the CAF-CONMEBOL play-off by finishing as runners-up at the 2018 Copa America Femenina, where they lost out to Pia Sundhage&rsquo;s Brazil, who claimed their seventh continental title.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womensolympic\/news\/wang-snatches-olympic-football-for-the-steel-roses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China PR secured their ticket<\/a> earlier in the day with a dramatic victory over Korea Republic after extra time, the 12 teams for the Women&rsquo;s Olympic Football Tournament are officially confirmed: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China PR, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, USA and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>The Home of FIFA in Zurich will host the draws for the Olympic Football Tournaments on 21 April at 10:00 CET. The two draws will be streamed live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpcTrCXblq78GZrTUTLWeBw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA YouTube channel<\/a> to allow all participants to follow proceedings from their home countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--social fi-o-article__body-part--social\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/womensolympic\/news\/chile-book-historic-ticket-to-round-out-tokyo-2020-field &nbsp; Chile edge Cameroon 2-1 on aggregate La Roja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5543,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"portfolio_category":[46,30],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/5542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/5542\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcsport.org\/women\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}