Children play football at a multipurpose court under the floodlights in the Artigas neighbourhood in Caracas, Venezuela, October 21, 2019. Picture taken October 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jordan Florit
(Reuters) - For decades, Venezuela's national football team were disparagingly nicknamed "Cinderella" for perennially failing to attend, being the first to depart, or finishing bottom of the pile in the Copa America and World Cup qualifiers.
Now they head into June's Copa America in Colombia and Argentina sitting 30th in the FIFA world rankings, ahead of fellow South Americans Paraguay (35), Ecuador (53) and Bolivia (81).
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