Peru's 2018 World Cup hopes built on coach Ricardo Gareca's personal touch

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Peru's 2018 World Cup hopes built on coach Ricardo Gareca's personal touch

With Paolo Guerrero suspended for six months, who will pick up the goalscoring slack for Peru in Russia? The idea that Ricardo Gareca would one day become a hero of the Peruvian people would have seemed preposterous back in 1985, when he scored the late goal that saw Argentina grab an automatic qualifying spot for Mexico '86 at Peru's expense. In fact, it still seemed pretty unlikely in March 2016, six matches into the qualification process for Russia 2018 and just over a year into his reign as Peru national team coach. At that stage, the country had picked up just four points and already seemed to...

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