Diego Forlan and Luis Suarez scored as Uruguay beat Paraguay 3-0 to win the Copa America for a record 15th time. Suarez scored the opener on 12 minutes and strike partner Diego Forlan gave Uruguay a 2-0 half-time lead. Forlan, making a record 82nd appearance for La Celeste, added the third in the last [...]
Holders Brazil were knocked out of the Copa America Sunday, after a woeful penalty shoot-out display against Paraguay in Argentina. The star-studded Brazilians missed all four of their spot-kicks as Paraguay went on to win 2-0 and earn a place in the last four of the competition. A disappointing match ended goal-less, as both [...]
Argentina and Uruguay will renew their historic rivalry when they clash in Saturday’s Copa America quarterfinals with all eyes on potential match-winners Lionel Messi and Diego Forlan. Uruguay won the first Copa America in 1916 and kept their momentum going through to the first World Cup, which they lifted in 1930. With that inaugural [...]
Argentina are into the quarterfinals of the 2011 Copa America after the hosts scored a comfortable 3-0 victory against Costa Rica in Cordoba. Two goals from Atletico Madrid’s Sergio Aguero and one from Real Madrid winger Angel di Maria secured the three points Sergio Batista’s team needed to avoid an early exit from the [...]
Colombia held hosts Argentina to a 0-0 draw in a Copa America match riddled with missed chances that they should have won to retain their two-point lead in Group A on Wednesday. Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero made four saves from the Colombia attack when they had only him to beat, earning the man of [...]
His rampaging runs and goal scoring exploits with Barcelona have left little doubt that Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world today. But you could even forget those constant highlight-reel runs — the stats speak for themselves. The soon-to-be three-time Ballon d’Or winner has scored nearly a goal a game for [...]
Sergio Aguero scored on a soaring volley in the 76th minute to help Argentina salvage a 1-1 draw with Bolivia Friday night in the first game of the Copa America. Bolivia’s Edvialdo Rojas stunned Argentine fans with a goal in the 48th in the Group A match played in freezing winter temperatures. “This makes [...]
Hosts Argentina feel it is their ‘obligation’ to win the Copa America with a team built around Lionel Messi and cannot stomach the idea of finishing behind arch-rivals Brazil for a third time in a row. The old enemies met in the last two finals of South America’s top soccer tournament, with Brazil upsetting [...]