Posted on Sunday, 15 July 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Play the best football of the tournament they may have done, overcoming early defensive worries to win all five matches en route to the final, and scoring sixteen along the way - but not for the first time, Argentina have bottled it against Brazil when it really mattered. It happened in Peru in 2004, when [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 15 July 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
There’s a pretty big football match taking place in Maracaibo today, when Argentina take on Brazil in the final of the Copa América. But not to be forgotten are the Under 20 side, who take on Mexico in Ottawa around twenty minutes after the adults are scheduled to finish their own trophy quest. There are [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 15 July 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
Dunga’s Brazil starting XI against Argentina in tonight’s Copa América final has been announced. Having played some painfully ordinary football reminscient of their manager’s playing career, Brazil have managed to get to the final without exciting anyone in their homeland with anything apart from the 6-1 quarter-final dismembering of Chile. In spite of being the [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 15 July 2007 by hastaelgolsiempre
In the third-place playoff of what has been a highly entertaining Copa América, it was Mexico who bagged themselves a thoroughly merited place on the metaphorical podium, falling behind in the first half to Uruguay, but rallying to win 3-1. The sending-off of Diego Lugano for a non-existent foul and subsequent penalty, scored by Cuauhtémoc [...]
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