FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifiers: Peru beat New Zealand to seal last Russia berth, reach finals after 35 years

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Lima: Jefferson Farfan and Christian Ramos scored as Peru defeated New Zealand to reach the World Cup for the first time since 1982 on Wednesday, sealing the last ticket to Russia with a 2-0 win.

Farfan struck in the 27th minute and Ramos scored in the 65th to give “Los Incas” their fifth overall World Cup finals appearance and the first in 35 years.

The second-leg match at Lima’s Estadio Nacional was the decider after New Zealand and Peru played to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Oceania-South America playoff on Saturday at Wellington.

In: firstpost.com

Peru’s President Says He Never Received Money From Odebrecht

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By John Quigley

In this article, John Quigley reports that “Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski categorically denied a newspaper report published earlier Tuesday alleging that Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht SA hired him as a consultant and financed his presidential campaigns.”

The author claims relating Kuczynski ‘s opinion: “I never received any contribution from Odebrecht for my 2011 and 2016 election campaigns. Nor have I had professional links with Odebrecht”. He also states that the president said via Twitter. “I’m absolutely sure of my acts. Let’s leave our prosecution and judicial authorities to work with autonomy independence and free from political pressures.”

Read more at: bloomberg

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