The Andalusia autonomous football team is the regional football team for Andalusia, Spain. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA, because it is represented internationally by the Spanish National Football Team. It only plays friendly matches.
The project for a football selection-team of Andalusia born in 1928, and started officially during the celebration of the Iberoamerican Expo in Seville, 1929, when Andalucia played a friendly match against Club Atlético Boca Juniors in Estadio de Heliopolis, known today as Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera.
They did not play again until 1965, during the 50 years celebration of the Federación Andaluza de Fútbol, when they played against Paraguay national football team in Estadio Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville.
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