LIMA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia president Evo Morales announced on Tuesday that his government plans a court case against soccer's governing body for its ban of official matches held more than 2,750 meters above sea level.

    According to news reaching here, Morales said he had asked the presidents of the Professional Football League and the Bolivia Football Federation to restart their campaign against the ruling by the International Association Football Federation (FIFA), which hits most of Bolivia.

    He added that he had contacted the president of nearby Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte, to ask him to intervene after the Paraguayan Football Federation refused to let its team play a World Cup qualifier in La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital, which is above 3,600 meters.

    On Monday, Morales and a team made up of Bolivian World Cup veterans, challenged an Argentine team led by soccer celebrity Diego Armando Maradona, at the Hernando Siles Stadium in La Paz, to show that altitude does not harm players.

    The money raised at the match will go to the nearly 100,000 made homeless in Bolivia after the flooding caused by the La Nina weather phenomenon.

    As well as the Bolivian departments of Oruro and Potosi, the ban also hits Colombia's capital, Bogota; Ecuador's capital, Quito; and Peruvian city Cusco.