Copa America 2021

Copa America 2021
Soccer South American Championship 2021
Number of nations	10
South American champions	Argentina (15th title)
venue	Brazil
Opening game	June 13, 2021
Endgame	July 10, 2021
Games	28
Gates	65  (⌀: 2.32 per game)
Top scorer	Luis Díaz , Lionel Messi
Best player	Lionel Messi, Neymar
Best goalkeeper	Emiliano Martínez
yellow cards	105  (⌀: 3.75 per game)
Yellow-red cards	3  (⌀: 0.11 per game)
Red cards	4  (⌀: 0.14 per game)

The Copa América 2021 was the 47th game of the South American continental championship in football. It was organized by CONMEBOL and took place in Brazil from June 13th to July 10th, 2021 . Brazil hosted the Copa America for the sixth time . The winner was the Argentine national soccer team , which defeated Brazil 1-0 in the final and thus ended a negative series of 28 years without major international titles. In the meantime, they lost in three Copa finals ( 2007 , 2015 , 2016 ) and one World Cup final ( 2014 ).

The Copa America, originally planned for 2020, has been postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The tournament was to take place for the first time with Argentina and Colombia in two countries. In May 2021, a few weeks before the start of the tournament, Colombia and Argentina were eliminated one after the other as host nations and Brazil stepped in as the new host.

Allocation and relocation of the tournament and change of hosts

On April 9, 2019, CONMEBOL announced at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , that the tournament would take place in Argentina and Colombia. Argentina hosted the tournament nine times before. For Colombia it would have been the second edition of the Copa America since 2001 .

The championship was originally scheduled for 2020. With this issue, the host of the tournament was to just-year figures in the rhythm be changed from four years ago and, at the request of the South American federation CONMEBOL, to the rhythm of European football are equalized.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , CONMEBOL decided on March 17, 2020 to postpone it by one year.

In mid-May 2021, amid the "third wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing social unrest in the country (although the latter was not officially mentioned), the Colombian government asked for a possible postponement of the tournament to November. With reference to the existing worldwide dates of the league - fixtures and international competitions, CONMEBOL ruled out a postponement and decided to announce new venues as soon as possible. At the same time, however, the health emergency in Argentina was no better; The country was in the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and was once again in strict lockdown to control the spread of the virus.

On May 30, 2021, Argentina was also suspended due to the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases. There was no host two weeks before the start of the tournament. After the end of Colombia, Chile was brought into play as a possible venue. In fact, on May 31st, Brazil was chosen as the new host. In the short-term award of the tournament to Brazil, the political calculations of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro , who is criticized for his corona policy, among other things, played a role.

Attendees

In addition to ten South American teams, two visiting teams from outside South America were originally supposed to take part in the tournament. On June 13, 2019, the last two winners of the Asian Cup , Australia ( 2015 ) and Qatar ( 2019 ), were confirmed as visiting teams. At the end of February, however, both teams had to cancel their participation in the continental tournament, as the schedule collided with the Asian World Cup qualifiers due to the postponement of the tournament .

Argentina	Chile
Ecuador	Peru
Bolivia	Uruguay
Brazil (hosts, defending champions)	Colombia
Venezuela	Paraguay

Originally planned venues

Originally, the tournament was to be played in eight stadiums in eight cities, four stadiums each in Argentina and Colombia.

Argentina

• Buenos Aires : Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti - 70,074 seats
• Cordoba : Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes - 57,000 seats
• Mendoza : Estadio Malvinas Argentinas - 49,268 seats
• Santiago del Estero : Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades - 30,000 seats

Colombia

• Barranquilla : Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez - 50,500 seats
• Bogotá : Estadio Nemesio Camacho - 46,000 seats
• Cali : Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero - 36,000 seats
• Medellín : Estadio Atanasio Girardot - 53,000 seats

Venues

In early June 2021, five stadiums for the Copa America were announced. The tournament was played in five stadiums in four cities. In Rio de Janeiro they played in the ( Maracanã and Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos ). The final took place in the Maracanã. Furthermore, the capital Brasília ( Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha ), Cuiabá ( Arena Pantanal ) and Goiânia ( Estádio Olímpico Pedro Ludovico Teixeira ) played. The encounters take place without spectators in camera.

Brasília Cuiabá Goiânia Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro
	Maracanã	Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos
	Capacity: 74,738	Capacity: 46,931
Brasília	Cuiabá	Goiânia
Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha	Arena Pantanal	Estádio Olímpico Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Capacity: 69,349	Capacity: 42,968	Capacity: 13,500

Group stage

The teams were divided into two groups. In Colombia, the Zona Norte ( German  North Zone ) should have played their games in the preliminary round. The Zona Sur ( German  South Zone ) in Argentina would have housed the other part of the teams. The top four in each group advance to the quarter-finals. On December 3, 2019, the preliminary round groups to determine the positions of the visiting teams and the schedule were drawn in Cartagena . The opening game was to take place at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. The final was not yet set.

An updated schedule for the tournament has been released, taking into account the cancellations by Australia and Qatar .

Group A - Zona Sur

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Argentina	4th	3	1	0	007: 200	+5	10
2.	Uruguay	4th	2	1	1	004: 200	+2	07th
3.	Paraguay	4th	2	0	2	005: 300	+2	06th
4th	Chile	4th	1	2	1	003: 400	−1	05
5.	Bolivia	4th	0	0	4th	002:100	−8	00

June 14, 2021, 6 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Argentina	-	Chile	1: 1 (1: 0)
June 14, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Goiânia
Paraguay	-	Bolivia	3: 1 (0: 1)
June 18, 2021, 5:00 p.m. in Cuiabá
Chile	-	Bolivia	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 18, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Brasília
Argentina	-	Uruguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 21, 2021, 5:00 p.m. in Cuiabá
Uruguay	-	Chile	1: 1 (0: 1)
June 21, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Brasília
Argentina	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 24, 2021, 5:00 p.m. in Cuiabá
Bolivia	-	Uruguay	0: 2 (0: 1)
June 24, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Brasília
Chile	-	Paraguay	0: 2 (0: 1)
June 28, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Uruguay	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 28, 2021, 8:00 p.m. in Cuiabá
Bolivia	-	Argentina	1: 4 (0: 3)

Group B - Zona Norte

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	4th	3	1	0	010: 200	+8	10
2.	Peru	4th	2	1	1	005: 700	−2	07th
3.	Colombia	4th	1	1	2	003: 400	−1	04th
4th	Ecuador	4th	0	3	1	005: 600	−1	03
5.	Venezuela	4th	0	2	2	002: 600	−4	02

June 13, 2021, 6 p.m. in Brasília
Brazil	-	Venezuela	3: 0 (1: 0)
June 13, 2021, 8:00 p.m. in Cuiabá
Colombia	-	Ecuador	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 17, 2021, 6:00 p.m. in Goiânia
Colombia	-	Venezuela	0-0
June 17, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Brazil	-	Peru	4: 0 (1: 0)
June 20, 2021, 6:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Venezuela	-	Ecuador	2: 2 (0: 1)
June 20, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Goiânia
Colombia	-	Peru	1: 2 (0: 1)
June 23, 2021, 6 p.m. in Goiânia
Ecuador	-	Peru	2: 2 (2: 0)
June 23, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Brazil	-	Colombia	2: 1 (0: 1)
June 27, 2021, 6 p.m. in Goiânia
Brazil	-	Ecuador	1: 1 (1: 0)
June 27, 2021, 6:00 p.m. in Brasília
Venezuela	-	Peru	0: 1 (0: 0)

Final round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	July 3, 2021, 10:00 p.m. in Goiânia
	Argentina	3
					July 6, 2021, 10:00 p.m. in Brasília
	Ecuador	0
					Argentina	E.1  (3) E.
	July 3, 2021, 7:00 p.m. in Brasília
					Colombia	1 (2)
	Uruguay	0 (2)
									July 10, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Maracanã)
	Colombia	E.0  (4) E.
									Argentina	1
	July 2, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
									Brazil	0
	Brazil	1
					July 5, 2021, 8:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
	Chile	0
					Brazil	1			Game for third place
	July 2, 2021, 6 p.m. in Goiânia
					Peru	0
	Peru	E.3  (4) E.							Colombia	3
	Paraguay	3 (3)							Peru	2
									July 9, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Brasília

Quarter finals

July 2, 2021, 6 p.m. in Goiânia
Peru	-	Paraguay	3: 3 (2: 1), 4: 3 i. E.
July 2, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Brazil	-	Chile	1: 0 (0: 0)
July 3, 2021, 7:00 p.m. in Brasília
Uruguay	-	Colombia	0: 0, 2: 4 i. E.
July 3, 2021, 10:00 p.m. in Goiânia
Argentina	-	Ecuador	3: 0 (1: 0)

Semifinals

July 5, 2021, 8:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Nilton Santos)
Brazil	-	Peru	1: 0 (1: 0)
July 6, 2021, 10:00 p.m. in Brasília
Argentina	-	Colombia	1: 1 (1: 0), 3: 2 i. E.

3rd place match

July 9, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Brasília
Colombia	-	Peru	3: 2 (0: 1)

Endgame

July 10, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro (Maracanã)
Argentina	-	Brazil	1: 0 (1: 0)

referee

•  Néstor Pitana
•  Patricio Loustau
•  Gery Vargas
•  Wilton Sampaio
•  Raphael Claus
•  Roberto Tobar
•  Wilmar Roldán
•  Andrés Rojas
•  Guillermo Guerrero
•  Boar Aquino
•  Victor Carrillo
•  Jesús Gil Manzano
•  Esteban Ostojich
•  Leodán González
•  Alexis Herrera

As part of an exchange program between UEFA and the South American association CONMEBOL, Argentina's Fernando Rapallini was nominated for the first time as a South American referee for the 2021 European Football Championship ; in return, the Spaniard Jesús Gil Manzano represented UEFA at the Copa America 2021 in Brazil.

Goal scorers

place	player	Gates	Penalty goals	templates	Playtime
1	Luis Díaz	4th	0	0	386
	Lionel Messi	4th	1	5	630
3	Gianluca Lapadula	3	0	1	581
	Lautaro Martínez	3	0	0	417
5	André Carrillo	2	0	1	518
	Edinson Cavani	2	0	0	428
	Papu Gomez	2	0	0	128
	Neymar	2	1	3	540
	Lucas Paquetá	2	0	0	355
	Ayrton Preciado	2	0	0	282
	Ángel Romero	2	0	0	385
	Erwin Saavedra	2	0	0	317
	Eduardo Vargas	2	0	1	403
	Yoshimar Yotun	2	0	1	613

Best players

With the Argentine Lionel Messi and the Brazilian Neymar , two players were chosen as the best player of the tournament before the final, because "it is impossible to choose just one best player", as it was said in a message from the South American association CONMEBOL. The Argentine Emiliano Martínez was named the best goalkeeper of the tournament .

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

In the course of the group stage, there were significant problems with the COVID-19 virus. Two days after the start, 53 cases of infected people were known. At the time, 27 cases had been identified among players and members of delegations, and 26 among service providers hired for the event. Venezuela's selection was hardest hit with 13 positive tests, including eight players. Bolivia reported four victims, Colombia two. The Peruvians' athletic trainer also had to be quarantined.

Web links

• Official website at conmebol.com (Spanish)

Individual evidence

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