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Bolivia players quit national team
Football players demand reforms in the game ahead of BRazil clash next month.
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2009 14:57 GMT

Bolivia have already been eliminated from the 2010 World Cup [GALLO/GETTY]
Bolivia's national football team players have resigned from the national team indefinitely and are demanding reforms in the game from their federation (FBF) and the government, according to their union.

The move could leave Bolivia without a squad to face Brazil at home and Peru away in their remaining World Cup qualifiers next month.

Both games are dead rubbers, however, since Brazil have qualified and Bolivia and Peru have been eliminated.

"Bolivian football is in a deep crisis and as long as our suggestions are not taken into account and implemented...the country's professional footballers resign indefinitely from representing the national team," Fabol said in a statement.

Equal say

Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed last week that the state take charge of the game because of the national team's poor results.

The Bolivia team are second-bottom of the 10-team South American group with 10 points from 16 games.

The union wants the game to be governed by a single executive body with an equal say for "the real actors in football, the players, coaches and referees" and more money injected into the game by the government.

Bolivian football is run by three separate entities, the FBF, the League and the national associations.

The country's clubs were eliminated before the knockout phase of this year's South American Libertadores Cup, mostly after heavy defeats.

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