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1 ME 86 Marco Etcheverry 71 caps · 13 goals · Club Destroyers, Club BolívarBolivia's first World Cup match in 44 years came on 17 June 1994 against Germany, and Etcheverry lasted about four minutes off the bench before a kick at Lothar Matthäus got him sent off. El Diablo won three MLS Cups with D.C. United in 1996, 1997 and 1999, was named league MVP in 1998, added the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and Copa Interamericana in 1998, and reached the 1997 Copa América final with Bolivia, scoring 13 goals in 71 caps. CAM1994–99
2 ES 85 Erwin Sánchez 57 caps · 15 goals · Club Destroyers, BoavistaThree World Cups have produced exactly one Bolivian goal, and it is his: struck against Spain in Chicago on 27 June 1994 in a 3-1 defeat. The midfielder they called Platini won the Portuguese league with Benfica in 1991 and again with Boavista in 2001, took the Taça de Portugal in 1997, and scored in the 1997 Copa América final against Brazil on the way to Bolivia's runner-up finish, with 15 goals in 57 caps. CM1991–2001
3 JC 84 Julio César Baldivieso 85 caps · 15 goals · C.D. Jorge Wilstermann, Club BolívarEl Emperador scored in back-to-back matches at the 1997 Copa América on home soil, against Peru on 15 June and then the only goal against Uruguay three days later, and Bolivia came through the group without conceding. He finished that tournament as runner-up to Brazil, won three Bolivian championships with Bolívar in 1992, 1994 and 1996, played at the 1994 World Cup, and collected 85 caps for Bolivia between 1991 and 2005. CM1991–2005
4 VA 84 Víctor Agustín Ugarte 45 caps · 16 goals · Club Bolívar, San Lorenzo de AlmagroOn 31 March 1963 in Cochabamba, Ugarte scored twice, in the 29th and 69th minutes, as Bolivia beat Brazil 5-4 in the match that settled the South American Championship. That title remains Bolivia's only continental championship, won unbeaten over six matches, and Ugarte reached it on the back of 318 appearances for Bolívar and 45 caps for his country; the stadium in Potosí now carries his name. CAM1960s
5 83 Marcelo Moreno Martins 108 caps · 31 goals · FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Changchun YataiMoreno Martins finished the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup as the continent's leading scorer with 10 goals, and Bolivia still finished outside the play-off places. He is Bolivia's record holder for both caps and goals, with 108 appearances and 31 goals, shared the 2008 Copa Libertadores scoring award with Salvador Cabañas, won the UEFA Cup with Shakhtar Donetsk in 2009 and the Ukrainian league in 2011, and took the Brazilian title with Cruzeiro in 2014. ST2008–22
6 ER 82 Erwin Romero 49 caps · 5 goals · Oriente Petrolero, Club BolívarBolivians knew him first as Chichi and then simply as El Maestro, a midfielder who scored 134 goals in 348 domestic league matches after turning professional with Destroyers at fifteen in 1973. CONMEBOL named him Bolivia's greatest footballer of all time in 2014, and he won the Bolivian championship twice with Bolívar, in 1982 and 1983, alongside 49 appearances for Bolivia between 1977 and 1989. LM1973–2014
7 JM 82 Jaime Moreno 75 caps · 9 goals · Club Blooming, MiddlesbroughOn 17 April 2009 he became the first player in MLS history to reach both 100 goals and 100 assists, thirteen years after arriving in Washington from Middlesbrough, where he had been the first Bolivian to play in the Premier League. He retired as the league's all-time leading scorer on 131 goals, with four MLS Cups at D.C. United between 1996 and 2004, the 1997 Golden Boot, 75 Bolivia caps and the 1994 World Cup. SS1994–2009
8 JB 82 Joaquín Botero 48 caps · 20 goals · Club Bolívar, Pumas UNAMLa Paz took Argentina apart 6-1 on 1 April 2009 and three of the goals were his, seven years after a season of 49 league goals that IFFHS rated the best in any top division in the world. He left Bolívar with 133 goals, second in the club's history, and added the 2002 Bolivian title, back-to-back Mexican championships with UNAM in the 2004 Clausura and Apertura, and 20 goals in 48 caps for Bolivia. ST2002–09
9 MM 82 Milton Melgar 89 caps · Club Blooming, Oriente PetroleroTwice on 22 August 1993 he scored from midfield as Bolivia beat Venezuela 7-0 in La Paz, during the campaign that took the country to its first World Cup in 44 years. He played all three games at USA 1994, finished runner-up at the 1997 Copa América, and retired with 89 caps that stood as Bolivia's record until 2002, having won league titles with Blooming, Oriente Petrolero and The Strongest and played for both Boca Juniors and River Plate. CDM1993–2002
10 RB 82 Ramiro Blacut 23 caps · 3 goals · Club Bolívar, Ferro Carril OesteBolivia closed the 1963 South American Championship by beating Brazil 5-4 in La Paz on 31 March, and the tournament's best player award went to Blacut, who scored once in four appearances at inside forward. That title remains Bolivia's only continental championship; he also won the 1968 Bolivian league with Bolívar, collected 23 caps, and became the first South American signed by Bayern Munich, where injury limited him to friendlies. CAM1963–68
11 RR 82 Ronald Raldes 89 caps · Oriente Petrolero, Club Atlético Rosario CentralNo Bolivian had reached 100 international appearances until he did it on 28 May 2018, seventeen years after his debut and across five Copa América tournaments between 2001 and 2015. He captained Bolivia at the 2015 Copa América and finished on 102 caps, won the Bolivian league with Oriente Petrolero in 2001 and both short tournaments with Bolívar in 2017, and spent four years at Rosario Central. CB2001–18
12 CT 81 Carlos Trucco 51 caps · Unión de Santa Fe, Estudiantes de Río CuartoBorn in Córdoba and Bolivian by choice, Trucco kept goal in all three group games at USA 1994 and conceded four, the only World Cup Bolivia has reached since 1950. He won 51 caps between 1989 and 1997 and was part of the Bolivia squad that reached the 1997 Copa América final in La Paz, losing 3-1 to Brazil, the country's best continental finish since the 1963 title. GK1950–97
13 JM 81 Juan Manuel Peña 85 caps · Independiente Santa Fe, Real ValladolidOne goal in 482 matches tells you what kind of defender he was, and it came in a friendly against Honduras in Washington on 11 October 2003, twelve years after his Bolivia debut at eighteen. He went to the 1994 World Cup and the 1997 Copa América, where Bolivia lost the final to Brazil, won 85 caps and later the captaincy, played nine seasons and over 250 matches for Real Valladolid, and lifted the 2004 Intertoto Cup at Villarreal. CB1994–2004
14 RC 81 Ramiro Castillo 52 caps · 5 goals · Club Sport Emelec, Club Atlético PlatenseThe terraces called him Chocolatín, and in La Paz on 25 June 1997 he scored the 39th-minute goal that carried Bolivia past Mexico and into the final of the Copa América they were hosting. Runner-up at that Copa América, part of Bolivia's 1994 World Cup squad, 52 caps and five goals, and 145 appearances in the Argentine league with Argentinos Juniors, River Plate and Rosario Central, still a record for a Bolivian. LM1994–97
15 WC 81 Wilfredo Camacho 27 caps · 5 goals · Deportivo Municipal de La Paz, Ferro Carril OesteCaptain in Cochabamba on 31 March 1963, he scored in the 5-4 win over Brazil that settled the South American Championship, and his relentless box-to-box running gave Bolivian football the phrase "fútbol camachista". That title remains Bolivia's only senior continental crown, won unbeaten at home, and Camacho finished the tournament with four goals in six matches before later managing the national team. ST1960s
16 80 Ausberto García C.D. Jorge WilstermannOn 31 March 1963 in La Paz he scored in the wild 5-4 win over Brazil that handed Bolivia the South American Championship, one of three goals he struck in that tournament after earlier strikes against Peru and Paraguay. That title remains the only continental crown Bolivia has ever won, and García took it as a forward of Jorge Wilstermann, the club he served for more than a decade. SS1960s
17 CA 80 Carlos Aragonés 31 caps · 15 goals · Club Bolívar, Sociedade Esportiva PalmeirasBrazil came to the Hernando Siles on 26 July 1979 and lost 2-1 to a Bolivia side whose goals both came from Aragonés, a penalty on 36 minutes and a finish on 73. He sits third on Bolivia's all-time scoring list with 15 goals in 31 caps, scored 64 in 109 games for Bolívar, won the league there in 1978, and later won Bolivian titles as a coach with The Strongest and Blooming. CM1978–79
18 CL 80 Carlos Lampe Club Bolívar, GuabiráBrazil came to La Paz on 5 October 2017 and could not score, because Lampe made eleven saves in a night, a record for South American qualifying that left Tite praising him afterwards. He has won Bolivian league titles with Sport Boys in 2015, Always Ready in 2020, the first in that club's history, and Bolívar in 2024, and has kept goal for his country across 64 caps and four Copa Américas. GK2015–24
19 FC 80 Fortunato Castillo Chaco PetroleroFour days after opening the scoring against Paraguay in Cochabamba, he put Bolivia ahead of Argentina in La Paz on 28 March 1963 with a goal after twelve minutes. The midfielder, who played his club football for Chaco Petrolero and Bolívar, came out of that unbeaten home campaign with the 1963 South American Championship, the only senior title Bolivia has ever won. ST1960s
20 JC 80 Juan Carlos Arce Oriente Petrolero, S.C. Corinthians PaulistaOn 5 September 2017 he stepped up in La Paz and put away the penalty that beat Chile 1-0, a result that helped push the two-time Copa América holders out of the 2018 World Cup. Eighty-eight caps and 15 goals for Bolivia across five Copa América squads, six league titles with Bolívar between 2013 and 2019, the 2010 Clausura with Oriente Petrolero, and spells at Corinthians and Terek Grozny. RM2010–19
21 LC 80 Luis Cristaldo 93 caps · Club Bolívar, Deportivo MandiyúSixteen years separated his debut against Uruguay on 10 September 1989 from his last cap in 2005, and 33 of those 93 appearances came in World Cup qualifiers, the grind that no highlight reel keeps. Cristaldo played two matches at the 1994 World Cup, Bolivia's first since 1950, went through all five games of the run to the 1997 Copa América final at home, and won seven Bolivian league titles with Oriente Petrolero, Bolívar and The Strongest. LB1950–2005
22 MS 80 Marco Sandy 93 caps · Club Bolívar, Real ValladolidThey called him Toro, and on 29 June 1997 he stood in Bolivia's defence at the Hernando Siles as Brazil won the Copa América final 3-1 in front of a home crowd that had believed. Nine Bolivian league titles with Bolívar between 1991 and 2006 sit behind that runners-up medal, together with all three group games at the 1994 World Cup and 93 caps for six goals. CB1991–2006
23 MA 80 Máximo Alcócer 22 caps · 13 goals · C.D. Jorge Wilstermann, Club Always ReadyHis goal on 57 minutes at the Estadio Félix Capriles on 31 March 1963 made it 5-4 against Brazil and held as the winner, with 25,000 in Cochabamba watching Bolivia finish the tournament unbeaten. That win sealed the 1963 South American Championship, Bolivia's only continental title, and he finished the tournament on five goals; three Bolivian league championships with Jorge Wilstermann in 1957, 1958 and 1959 came before it, along with 13 goals in 22 caps. ST1957–63
24 OM 80 Ovidio Messa 37 caps · 8 goals · Club Petrolero, Chaco PetroleroHe wore Bolivia's number 10 at the 1975 Copa América and scored three times in four matches, in a career that began at Petrolero de Cochabamba in 1969 and ended with a knee injury in October 1986. Forty caps and nine goals for Bolivia, league titles with Chaco Petrolero in 1970, Bolívar in 1976 and The Strongest in 1986, gold at the 1970 Bolivarian Games, and a stadium in his home town of Yacuiba that carries his name. CM1969–86
25 ÁP 79 Álvaro Peña The Hernando Siles was still roaring at Etcheverry's 88th-minute goal when Peña made it 2-0 against Brazil on 25 July 1993, the first World Cup qualifier Brazil had ever lost. Forty-three caps and four goals, a squad place at the 1994 World Cup, Bolivia's first finals since 1950, five Copa América tournaments from 1987 to 1995, and league titles with Real Santa Cruz in 1996 and The Strongest in 1999. SS1950–99
26 ÓS 79 Óscar Sánchez 78 caps · The Strongest, Club Atlético IndependienteHe answered to Marraqueta, the name of a Bolivian bread roll, and wore the national team's armband through most of sixty caps. Runner-up at the 1997 Copa América on home soil and a substitute in all three group games at USA 1994, he won four league titles with Bolívar between 2002 and 2006, then returned to The Strongest as coach before kidney cancer killed him at 36 in November 2007. CB1994–2007
27 VS 79 Vladimir Soria 51 caps · Club BolívarNinety-three Copa Libertadores matches for Bolívar put him among the competition's most-used players, and he was on the field in Chicago when Bolivia opened the 1994 World Cup against Germany. Captain of the Bolivia team that reached the 1997 Copa América final, winner of eight Bolivian championships with Bolívar between 1985 and 1997, and scorer of one goal in 51 internationals, against Chile on 12 February 1997. LB1985–97
28 JC 78 José Carlos Fernández Between 1995 and 2010 Fernández kept goal for more than twenty clubs in six countries, from Oriente Petrolero and Blooming to Córdoba in Spain, Veracruz in Mexico, New England Revolution and Universidad de Chile. Twenty-six Bolivia caps from 1998 to 2004 covered the 1999 Confederations Cup and two Copa Américas, and he won league titles with Blooming in 1998 and 1999, Bolívar in 2002 and 2009, Oriente Petrolero in 2010 and Deportivo Cali in Colombia in 2005. GK1995–2010
29 JC 78 Juan Carlos Sánchez Blooming got 146 league goals out of him in the 1980s, and the crowd in Santa Cruz called him Pinocho. Top scorer of the 1985 Copa Libertadores with eleven goals, he was a Bolivian champion with Blooming in 1984 and, after taking citizenship, won five caps for the country he had adopted. ST1984–85
30 MR 78 Miguel Rimba 80 caps · Club Bolívar, Oriente PetroleroA friendly against Paraguay in Cochabamba on 25 May 1989 was the first of 80 caps, and the right back was still there five years later for three matches at the World Cup in the United States. Six league titles with Bolívar across 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1997, 302 appearances for the club, 63 in the Copa Libertadores, and a place in the Bolivia team beaten in the 1997 Copa América final at home. RB1988–97
31 RG 78 Raúl Gutiérrez Pelecho stayed put: thirteen seasons at Blooming from 1995 to his last match on 17 July 2008, interrupted only by loans to Aurora and Destroyers. Three Bolivian titles came with that loyalty, the Copa Simón Bolívar in 1996 and back-to-back Primera División championships in 1998 and 1999, alongside eighteen caps between his debut in 1994 and a last appearance against Mexico in March 2003. CDM1994–2008
32 GQ 77 Gustavo Quinteros The Strongest turned him into a centre-back, and on 29 January 1993, in his first match for Bolivia, he scored in a 3-1 friendly win over Honduras. He played at the 1994 World Cup and the 1999 Confederations Cup, appeared at three Copa Américas, won Bolivian league titles with The Strongest in 1989 and 1993, and took the 1995 Clausura with San Lorenzo in Buenos Aires. CB1989–99
33 MS 77 Mauricio Soria 23 caps · Club Aurora, The StrongestThe Strongest took both the Apertura and the Clausura in 2003 with him in the side, two decades after he started out at Aurora, the club he came back to for a last season in 2005. Five Bolivian championships as a player, with Bolívar in 1994 and 1996, Wilstermann in 2000 and The Strongest twice in 2003, then three more from the bench at Wilstermann, Real Potosí and The Strongest, and a runners-up medal from the 1997 Copa América. CDM1994–2005

About this XI

The three highest rated names in Bolivia's pool are Marco Etcheverry, Erwin Sánchez and Julio César Baldivieso. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 8 defenders, 13 midfielders and 9 forwards. Marco Etcheverry leads the pool at 86 overall. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then settle the duels below. Your votes reorder the people's ranking of these 33 in real time.

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Who is the greatest Bolivia footballer of all time?
In the 33 Legends editorial ranking, Marco Etcheverry leads Bolivia with an overall rating of 86. The editorial top five: Marco Etcheverry, Erwin Sánchez, Julio César Baldivieso, Víctor Agustín Ugarte, Marcelo Moreno Martins. The people's ranking on this page moves with every duel vote and can disagree.
How were these 33 Bolivia players chosen?
The pool covers every position across Bolivia's football history. Ratings weigh peak level, longevity, honours and historical standing, then the full methodology page explains the tiers. Fan votes in the duels build a second, independent ranking.
Which Bolivia players reach the Immortal tier or higher?
None yet. Marco Etcheverry leads the Bolivia pool at 86, in the Icon tier.
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