Copa America 2019

Copa America 2019
Soccer South American Championship 2019
Number of nations	12 (10 + 2 visiting teams)
South American champions	Brazil (9th title)
venue	Brazil
Opening game	14th June
Endgame	7th of July
Games	26th
Gates	60  (⌀: 2.31 per game)
spectator	797,277  (⌀: 30,665 per game)
Top scorer	Everton Paolo Guerrero (3 goals each)
Best player	Dani Alves
Best goalkeeper	Alisson Becker
yellow cards	116  (⌀: 4.46 per game)
Yellow-red cards	2  (⌀: 0.08 per game)
Red cards	5  (⌀: 0.19 per game)

The Copa América 2019 was the 46th game of the South American continental championship in football and took place for the fifth time after 1919 , 1922 , 1949 and 1989 in Brazil . The defending champion was Chile, which won both the 2015 edition and the 2016 special edition . With Japan and Qatar , two visiting teams from the Asian Football Association took part in the tournament.

Zizito , the mascot of the Copa América 2019

Choice of venue

According to the rotation principle of the South American football association CONMEBOL , which provides for all member associations to be held one after the other in alphabetical order, Brazil was originally supposed to host the Copa America 2015 and Chile the Copa America 2019. Due to hosting the Confederations Cup in 2013 , the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics , Brazil did not want to host the tournament. Brazil and Chile discussed an exchange, Chile should host 2015, Brazil 2019. On March 24, 2012, the presidents of the national football associations of Brazil and Chile announced a corresponding agreement. It has been confirmed by CONMEBOL.

In July 2018 it was announced that the originally planned match days (June 14th to July 7th) had been brought forward by one week and the final should take place on June 30th, 2019. On September 17, 2018, the association announced that it would stick to the original schedule.

Attendees

All ten CONMEBOL member associations were automatically qualified for the tournament. As twelve teams are required for the group stage, two additional participants were invited as in the past. In addition to Japan - which already participated in 1999 - this is also Qatar for the first time - World Cup host from 2022 . Mexico, which otherwise took part regularly, was not taken into account as the tournament overlapped with the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup .

Argentina	Ecuador	Paraguay
Bolivia	Japan (visiting team)	Peru
Brazil (hosts)	Qatar (visiting team)	Uruguay
Chile (defending champion)	Colombia	Venezuela

Venues

The first venues were announced on September 17, 2018. The opening match between Brazil and Bolivia (3-0) took place in the Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo , the semi-finals will be in the Arena do Grêmio in Porto Alegre and in Belo Horizonte in Mineirão , the final in the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro carried out.

Belo Horizonte Porto Alegre São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Salvador		Rio de Janeiro	São Paulo
		Maracanã	Estádio do Morumbi	Arena Corinthians
		Capacity: 74,738	Capacity: 67,428	Capacity: 49,205
		Belo Horizonte	Porto Alegre	Salvador
		Mineirão	Arena do Gremio	Arena Fonte Nova
		Capacity: 58,170	Capacity: 55,662	Capacity: 51,900

spectator

The first contingent of tickets totaling 101,852 are said to have been sold within 24 hours, according to hosts Brazil.

Group stage

The group stage draw took place on January 24, 2019.

mode

The group winners and second as well as the two best thirds qualified for the quarter-finals. In the event of a tie, the following decision rules were used:

1. Goal difference from all group games;
2. Number of goals scored from all group games;
3. Points in direct comparison between teams with the same points;
4. Goal difference from direct comparison between teams with equal points;
5. Number of goals scored in direct encounters between teams with equal points;
6. Fair play points from all group games (a player can only receive minus points once per game): Yellow card: −1 point; Yellow-red card: −3 points; Red card: -4 points; Red card and warning: -5 points
7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	2	1	0	008-000	+8	07th
2.	Venezuela	3	1	2	0	003: 100	+2	05
3.	Peru	3	1	1	1	003: 600	−3	04th
4th	Bolivia	3	0	0	3	002: 900	−7	00

1st matchday

June 14th at the Estádio do Morumbi
Brazil	-	Bolivia	3: 0 (0: 0)
June 15 at the Arena do Gremio
Venezuela	-	Peru	0-0

2nd matchday

June 18 in Maracanã
Bolivia	-	Peru	1: 3 (1: 1)
June 18th at the Arena Fonte Nova
Brazil	-	Venezuela	0-0

3rd matchday

June 22nd at the Arena Corinthians
Peru	-	Brazil	0: 5 (0: 3)
June 22nd at Mineirão
Bolivia	-	Venezuela	1: 3 (0: 1)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Colombia	3	3	0	0	004-000	+4	09
2.	Argentina	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Paraguay	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
4th	Qatar	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01

1st matchday

June 15th at the Arena Fonte Nova
Argentina	-	Colombia	0: 2 (0: 0)
June 16 in Maracanã
Paraguay	-	Qatar	2: 2 (1: 0)

2nd matchday

June 19th at the Estádio do Morumbi
Colombia	-	Qatar	1: 0 (0: 0)
June 19 at Mineirão
Argentina	-	Paraguay	1: 1 (0: 1)

3rd matchday

June 23 at the Arena do Gremio
Qatar	-	Argentina	0: 2 (0: 1)
June 23 at the Arena Fonte Nova
Colombia	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (1: 0)

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Uruguay	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	Chile	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	06th
3.	Japan	3	0	2	1	003: 700	−4	02
4th	Ecuador	3	0	1	2	002: 700	−5	01

1st matchday

June 16 at Mineirão
Uruguay	-	Ecuador	4: 0 (3: 0)
June 17th at the Estádio do Morumbi
Japan	-	Chile	0: 4 (0: 1)

2nd matchday

June 20th at the Arena do Gremio
Uruguay	-	Japan	2: 2 (1: 1)
June 21st at the Arena Fonte Nova
Ecuador	-	Chile	1: 2 (1: 1)

3rd matchday

June 24th in Maracanã
Chile	-	Uruguay	0: 1 (0: 0)
June 24th at Mineirão
Ecuador	-	Japan	1: 1 (1: 1)

Table of third party groups

Pl.	Country (group)	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Peru ( A )	3	1	1	1	003: 600	−3	04th
2.	Paraguay ( B )	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
3.	Japan ( C )	3	0	2	1	003: 700	−4	02

Final round

In the final round, the winner of a tie after the regular playing time was determined as follows:

• A direct penalty shoot-out followed in the quarter-finals . There was no extension .
• A regular 30-minute extra time was played in the semi-finals as well as the game for third place and in the final. Should the game be a draw after this time, a penalty shoot-out followed.

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	June 27, 2019
	Brazil	10 (4) E.
					2nd July 2019
	Paraguay	0 (3)
					Brazil	2
	June 28, 2019
					Argentina	0
	Venezuela	0
									7th July 2019
	Argentina	2
									Brazil	3
	June 28, 2019
									Peru	1
	Colombia	0 (4)
					3rd July 2019
	Chile	10 (5) E.
					Chile	0			Game for third place
	June 29, 2019
					Peru	3
	Uruguay	0 (4)							Argentina	2
	Peru	10 (5) E.							Chile	1
									6th July 2019

^E victory on penalties

Quarter finals

June 27, 2019 at 9:30 p.m. (June 28 at 2:30 a.m. CEST) in Porto Alegre
Brazil	-	Paraguay	0: 0, 4: 3 i. E.
June 28, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. (June 28 at 9:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Venezuela	-	Argentina	0: 2 (0: 1)
June 28, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. (June 29 at 1:00 a.m. CEST) in São Paulo
Colombia	-	Chile	0: 0, 4: 5 i. E.
June 29, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. (June 29 at 9:00 p.m. CEST) in Salvador
Uruguay	-	Peru	0: 0, 4: 5 i. E.

Semifinals

July 2, 2019 at 9:30 p.m. (July 3 at 2:30 a.m. CEST) in Belo Horizonte
Brazil	-	Argentina	2: 0 (1: 0)
July 3, 2019 at 9:30 p.m. (July 4 at 2:30 a.m. CEST) in Porto Alegre
Chile	-	Peru	0: 3 (0: 2)

3rd place match

July 6, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. (July 6 at 9:00 p.m. CEST) in São Paulo
Argentina	-	Chile	2: 1 (2: 0)

final

July 7th, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. (July 7th at 10:00 p.m. CEST) in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil	-	Peru	3: 1 (2: 1)

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  Graduation before the game

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  The Brazilian and Peruvian national soccer teams before the game starts

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  Scene from the game

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  The Brazilian national soccer team celebrates the victory

Awards

Left to right: Everton, Alisson Becker and Dani Alves.

Best player

•  Dani Alves was named the best player of the tournament.

Top scorer

•  Everton was the tournament's top scorer with three goals. He scored in the opening game against Bolivia, in the group game against Peru and in the final against Peru. In the last two games mentioned, he was also elected Man of the Match . Like the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero , Everton delivered three goals and an assist. However, he needed fewer minutes of action during the tournament and was therefore awarded the Golden Shoe for his greater effectiveness.

Best goalkeeper

•  Alisson Becker was named the tournament's best goalkeeper. In six games he did not score five times and thus had a large share in winning the title. Only Paolo Guerrero was able to overcome him in the final.

Fair play award

•  Brazil received the award as the fairest team in the tournament.

Team of the tournament

In addition, the technical commission put together the team for the tournament:

goalkeeper	Defense	midfield	striker
Alisson Becker	Dani Alves José María Giménez Thiago Silva Miguel Trauco	Arthur Melo Leandro Paredes Arturo Vidal	James Rodríguez Paolo Guerrero Everton

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the tournament. If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

rank	player	Gates
1	Everton	3
	Paolo Guerrero	3
3	Sergio Aguero	2
	Edinson Cavani	2
	Philippe Coutinho	2
	Roberto Firmino	2
	Edison Flores	2
	Gabriel Jesus	2
	Darwin Machís	2
	Lautaro Martínez	2
	Kōji Miyoshi	2
	Alexis Sánchez	2
	Luis Suarez	2
	Eduardo Vargas	2
	Duván Zapata	2
16	26 players	1

There are also two own goals: Rodrigo Rojas (Paraguay) in the first group game against Qatar and Arturo Mina (Ecuador) in the first group game against Uruguay.

referee

On March 21, 2019, the South American football association CONMEBOL nominated 23 referees and 23 assistants.

country	referee	Assistant referees
Argentina	Néstor Pitana Fernando Rapallini Patricio Loustau	Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti Ezequiel Brailovsky
Bolivia	Gery Vargas	José Antelo Edwar Saavedra
Brazil	Wilton Sampaio Raphael Claus Anderson Daronco	Rodrigo Correa Marcelo Van Gasse Kléber Gil
Chile	Roberto Tobar Julio Bascuñán Piero Maza	Christian Schiemann Claudio Rios
Ecuador	Roddy Zambrano Carlos Orbe	Christian Lescano Byron Romero
Colombia	Wilmar Roldán Andrés Rojas Nicolás Gallo	Alexander Guzman Wilmar Navarro Jhon Alexander León
Paraguay	Mario Díaz de Vivar Arnaldo Samaniego	Eduardo Cardozo Dario Gaona
Peru	Diego Haro Victor Carrillo	Jonny Bossio Víctor Ráez
Uruguay	Esteban Ostojich Leodán González	Nicolás Tarán Richard Trinidad
Venezuela	Alexis Herrera Jesús Valenzuela	Carlos Lopez Luis Murillo

Scandal

After being sent off in the third place match, Argentine Lionel Messi expressed strong criticism of the referee performance at the Copa América and what he thought the Brazilian federation had too much influence in CONMEBOL . “We shouldn't take part in this corruption. We are fed up with [...] the corruption, the referees and everything that spoils the spectacle. Corruption and the referees do not let fans enjoy football. ”CONMEBOL rejected the allegations as“ unacceptable ”and“ unfounded allegations ”. “In football you lose and sometimes you win. One of the cornerstones of fair play is to accept the results and the referee's decisions with respect. "

Television broadcast

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the live transmission rights were acquired from the fee-based streaming service DAZN . All past games in the tournament are also offered as video-on-demand at DAZN . Marcel Seufert and Michael Hofmann commented on the opening game . Marcel Seufert and Jonas Boldt commented on the final .

See also

• Games details
• Squad

Web links

Commons : Copa América 2019  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the tournament (English, Spanish, Brazilian )
• Official website of CONMEBOL (English, Spanish, Brazilian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chile is happy: Brazil is giving up the Copa. Kicker.de, March 24, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ La Copa América da otro paso hacia Chile ( Memento of March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Chile será finalmente el organizador de la Copa América el 2015 ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Copa América de 2019 muda de data e termina dia 30 de junho. In: globo.com. July 25, 2018, archived from the original on July 26, 2018 ; Retrieved September 9, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ↑ Copa America 2019: Japan and Qatar take part. Kicker.de, May 5, 2018, accessed on June 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Conmebol define estádios de abertura, final e semifinais da Copa America. In: globo.com. September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018 (Portuguese). 
7. ^ Copa América 2019: Mais de 100 mil ingressos vendidos em 24 horas. CBF, January 21, 2019, archived from the original on January 15, 2019 ; Retrieved January 15, 2019 (Portuguese). 
8. ↑ Copa América 2019: Brasil enfrentará Bolívia, Venezuela e Peru na fase de grupos. CBF, January 24, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 (Portuguese). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Reglemanto - CONMEBOL Copa América Brasil 2019. (PDF; 2.0 MB) CONMEBOL, April 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019 (Spanish). 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Los jugadores premiados del torneo. In: copaamerica.com. July 8, 2019, Retrieved July 8, 2019 (Spanish). 
11. ↑ Al Aire Libre: ¿Por qué Everton ganó el premio al goleador de Copa América y no Paolo Guerrero? Retrieved July 8, 2019 (Spanish). 
12. ↑ El equipo de la ideal CONMEBOL Copa América Brasil 2019. In: copaamerica.com. CONMEBOL, July 9, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 (Spanish). 
13. ↑ List of goalscorers on conmebol.com , accessed July 8, 2019
14. ↑ A LAS ASOCIACIONES NACIONALES. March 21, 2019, accessed June 16, 2019 (Spanish). 
15. ↑ Trouble at Copa America: Messi sees red and can no longer be held , on faz.net, July 7, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
16. ↑ Copa America 2019: All information about broadcasting on TV and live stream. In: spox.com. June 13, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Brazil vs. Peru: TV, LIVE-STREAM, line-up, LIVE-TICKER, highlights and Co. - everything for broadcasting the Copa America final 2019. In: goal.com. July 8, 2019, accessed July 7, 2019 .