The Copa America is over for host Argentina, and its drought in major championships will now extend past 20 years. The hosts’ Copa quest ended in a dramatic penalty-shootout loss to neighbour Uruguay in the quarterfinals on Saturday, disappointing the fans watching the match in Santa Fe and millions more countrywide hoping to witness [...]
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 [...]