0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/27/2016
After leading his team to the Copa America final, missing the first penalty for Argentina and having lost to Chile in penalty kicks for the second consecutive year, Lionel Messi has decided to retire from the Argentine national team. “It’s over. My time with the national team is done. We’ve been to four finals and […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 6/26/2016
For the second straight year, the Copa America Final between Argentina and Chile went scoreless and was taken to penalties. And repeating what happened in last year’s game, Chile once again wins in penalty kicks to defeat Argentina for their second consecutive Copa America win, winning the penalty shootout 4-2. The first half was defined […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal
The United States Men’s national team fought bravely and were close on many occasions to score, but they lacked the final touch in the opponent’s third of the pitch and were done in by a Carlos Bacca goal to fall to Colombia 1-0 in the Copa America third place match. In front of 29,000 people […]
0 comments by Pauly Kwestel on 6/24/2016
News broke this month that officials from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL were in negotiations to merge each confederations regional tournaments – CONCACAF’s Gold Cup and CONMEBOL’s Copa America – into one Copa America tournament to be held every four years in the United States. It was later reported that talks were to keep the two individual competitions and then […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/23/2016
Chile had to wait for it a bit longer than they would have wished, but they managed to hold off Colombia to reach the Copa America final for the second consecutive year. Not only that, but they will face off against the same opponent that they did last year in Argentina on their way to […]
0 comments by Pauly Kwestel on 6/20/2016
Throughout the Copa America Centenario, USMNT manager Jurgen Klinsmann has uncharacteristically been sticking with the same lineup. Klinsmann became the first US manager since 1930 to use the same starting XI in three straight matches. In game number four, Klinsmann made just one change, which was a necessity as starting right back DeAndre Yedlin was […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/18/2016
In what was a match that was slow to develop for both teams, Colombia and Peru played out to a very physical and, kind of, choppy game. But it was Colombia that came out victorious in the penalty kick shootout and they will advance into the Copa America semifinals, as the eliminated the underdog Peruvians. […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/16/2016
After being heavily criticized for his first touch (enough so that someone actually made a YouTube compilation video of his terrible first touches), finally Gyasi Zardes gets a goal for the USMNT in the Copa America Centenario. After a weird sequence that saw Antonio Valencia and Jermaine Jones see simultaneous red cards, both teams were […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal
Who else but Clint Dempsey to give the United States a 1-0 commanding lead over Ecuador in the quarterfinals of the Copa America Centenario? It is only fitting that Deuce scored in front of his own home fans, as he plays for the Seattle Sounders and to him this is home field advantage times two. […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/15/2016
The Copa America Centenario has been one of the most surprising Copa Americas in history. It has brought surprise teams which pundits and experts thought had no chance of advancing, and inversely there have been teams that have disappointed in a very big way. There have been players that really stepped it up and others that […]
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1) Biggest winner: Chile Not only did Chile soundly defeat Panama to advance to the knockout stages of the Copa America to defend their title, but they found their scoring touch along the way. To be fair, they did beat Panama, but considering that Panama gave Chile a shock with an early goal and made it […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/14/2016
Alexis Sanchez was scrutinized heavily for not scoring a goal yet in Copa America Centenario play, as he was one of Chile’s best during the last Copa America held in Chile when he scored a goal in the competition. The pressure was on him to score a goal and help lead his team to victory in […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal
Let us look at what the last match day for Group C had in store as we look at what was Day 11 in the Copa America Centenario. 1) Biggest Winner: Mexico Mexico should build a statue for Jesus Manuel “El Tecatito” Corona, as his late equalizer against Venezuela won Mexico Group C. This is […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/13/2016
Daniel Hernandez might as well earn Man of the Match honors for his excellent performance against Mexico today. Venezuela, a team that was facing the mighty Mexico (who was favored to win the group by most experts), scored early to take the wind out of the Mexican sails and held on to a slim 1-0 […]
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In what many saw as an easy game for Mexico to either earn a draw or a victory against the 77th ranked team in the FIFA Standings, really took a turn for the worst for Mexico and their fans. Early in the match, Andres Guardado committed a foul way outside of the box and it […]
