Lima - Peruvian footballers will decline national team duty from July, in an effort to press for "radical" structural changes in the Andean country's football, the footballers' union said Wednesday. "The (current) crisis is the consequence of a series of management mistakes, which is reflected not only in the awful results of our national teams, but also in the low level in our professional and amateur tournaments," said union leader Francesco Manassero, who cited many other factors.
Manassero noted that the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) was informed of players' demands in a letter.
Peru is set to play Ecuador and Colombia in June in South America's qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and it stands last in the qualifiers table.
Media reports noted that national team coach Jose Guillermo del Solar would resign rather than play official international games with junior players.
