 Complete the following phrase:  The Peru national football team wore its first official kit at its formal debut in the 1927 South American Championship held in Lima. Perus kit comprised a white-and-red striped jersey a thick vertical stripe running down the middle front and back, with two equally-thick vertical stripe on the sides, white shorts, and black socks. Ficial difficulties almost impeded Peru from organizing the tournament, but the Peruvian government of Augusto B. Leguía intervened to guarantee the tournaments ficial sustainability. Leguías government promoted the development of football as the countrys national pastime, and Peruvian society at the time considered that the president sponsored the local football club Alianza Lima. Peruvian sports historians debate Leguías personal involvement with football, and with Alianza Lima in particular, but Pulgar-Vidal Otálora points out that it might not be mere coincidence that Perus first official national football kit nearly identically resembled that of Alianzaits blue-colored stripes and shorts marked the only difference with the national kit. Peru used this kit for six official matches, three at Limas tournament and three at the 