Mauricio Soria (C), the coach of Bolivia's national team, leads a training session at the Hernando Siles stadium in La Paz on August 28, 2017, ahead of Bolivia's upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia South American qualifier football matches against Peru an
Lausanne: Bolivia will have to forfeit two 2018 World Cup qualifiers for fielding an ineligible player after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected their appeal on Tuesday.
The decision by CAS in Lausanne means the country can no longer qualify for next year's World Cup finals in Russia.
Bolivia played defender Nelson Cabrera for the qualifiers against Chile and Peru last year, but despite having gained Bolivian nationality, FIFA found him to be ineligible after playing a friendly in 2007 for Paraguay, his country of birth.
Both matches will go down as 3-0 losses for Bolivia, after they had originally beaten Peru 2-0 and held Copa America champions Chile to a 0-0 draw.
