Thursday, July 12, 2007

Copa America vids: Argies shutout “el Tri” on the way to the final

Make that nine wins out of ten. Los albicelestes are on their way to the Copa America finals after beating Mexico 3-0 last night.

For approximately 44 minutes both Argentina and Mexico were evenly matched yet it was all Argies after opening the score with a volley by Gabriel Heinze at the stroke of halftime. Argentina followed with second half strikes from Lionel Messi and Juan Roman Riquelme as el Tri was outplayed despite a good run in the tourney.

--All three argentine goals were absolutely splendid and things of beauty and can be seen in the following video from argentine TV (video link):

--Argentina will face Brazil in Sunday’s final in Maracaibo. It will be a rematch of the previous Copa America final in 2004 which was one by Brazil via a penalty shootout (video link):

In other Copa America news:

Sources- NDTV, The Latin Americanist, BBC News, International Herald Tribune, YouTube, Christian Science Monitor, Guardian UK, ESPN Soccernet

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

did you notice that this Copa website does not even mention the USA as a competitor?

www.copamerica-2007.com.ve/

Erwin C. said...

You're right but that site is not the official one of the tourney.

This is and it includes all teams including the U.S.