Peru pick 'Little Jewel' Avila for qualifiers

The 19-year-old Sport Huancayo striker helped his country reach the quarter-finals of the under-17 World Cup in 2007.

Universitario's Nolberto Solano returns after missing the defeats by Ecuador and Colombia in June and fellow midfielder Roberto Palacios of Sporting Cristal comes back for the first time since 2007.

Peru are bottom of the 10-team South American group with seven points from 14 matches and have lost all chance of reaching next year's finals in South Africa. They last reached the finals in Spain in 1982.