The Real Betis goalkeeper Claudio Bravo The captaincy of the Chilean team was recovered this past morning, in the debut of Uruguayan Martín Lasarte as coach of the Red, in the friendly against Bolivia in Rancagua (Chile), won by the locals 2-1, with goals from Luis Jiménez (12 ') and Jean Meneses (21') for the Chileans and Marcelo Moreno (19 ') for the Bolivians, who, apart from the play of the goal, gave little work to the Betic goalkeeper.
Claudio Bravo has thus added his match 101 with captain's armband of the Chilean national team – which he led for the first time in a friendly against Switzerland in 2007 – and is the record man in the history of the Red. Chile adds 52 wins, 19 draws and 30 defeats with the captain's goalkeeper. Bravo, which adds up to a total of 123 caps with Chile, He had not been captain of the national team for three years and five months, since October 10, 2017, when Chile was eliminated from the World Cup in Russia, after losing 3-0 to Brazil in Sao Paulo. After that defeat, Bravo resigned to play a series of friendlies with the Red and then his serious Achilles tendon injury occurred, so he did not return to the national team until two years later, in September 2019.
In the 27 matches of Reinaldo Rueda As the Chilean coach – of which Bravo only played five – the captains were Gary Medel (17), Alexis Sánchez (5), Arturo Vidal (2), Enzo Roco (2) and Paulo Díaz (2). In the last two Bravo played, last November, qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar, against Venezuela and Peru, the captains were Alexis Sánchez and Arturo Vidal, absent in this friendly against Bolivia.
After the dispute of this friendly, Claudio Bravo has planned return to Seville to put himself under the command of Manuel Pellegrini, who gave him back the title in the game of the last day against Levante after not enjoying it since January 11 in Huesca, since first he was a month off due to injury and then another relegated to the bench due to the good performances of Joel Robles.