Copa America Centenario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpXZWSvtmaw

Colombia looking very good here, thought not quite at Mexico or Argentina's level.

Just curious since this thread isn't getting much traffic: Is it less interesting because it's an off-sequence tournament, or do people just not care on a different level? Or maybe it's the time the games are played? It's a little surprising honestly, given the traffic on the Euros thread.

For my part I just haven't had a chance to watch until just now, but I think in general lots of people care more about the other tournament.

Hell of a goal by Ayala for Paraguay just now, 30+ yards.

xp that's pretty much what I figured

Yeah, that goal was really nice

Redd card!?

Colombia the first team through to the Quarterfinal with that win. They looked tired towards the end for sure, the game got sort of end-to-end there.

Yeah

wrt to copa america popularity compared to the euros, well it's style, stars and location i guess

latin american football is pretty different and the players are considered lower tier, with most wanting to make it big in europe; probably because they are bigger markets, so more money

and the euros will start friday with tonnes of star players. i mean just look at germany though they have a lot of older players now as well

they have pretty much failed to deliver on the stars that are participating, it's true, although James is kicking ass

I don't agree with the lower level part overall, I mean Bolivia suuuuucks, and never mind Haiti, but there has been some top level play for sure

RIP Haiti btw

I mean obv with the non-Mexico CONCACAF sides included the level is lower

Haiti's goal tonight on local radio: https://twitter.com/Raschiid/status/740721330492985345?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

(they lost 7-1 to brazil)

\ecuador ties it 2-2 with peru as I type

Had to walk away when the Vino Tinto got injured. Has the game gained any momentum?

Vinotinto

What's black and white and red all over?

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Ha wrong thread

https://twitter.com/deejayfaremi/status/741146521333293058

I have always been slightly put off the copa america by its numbing frequency, but more crucially its not televised much. I watched costa rica - Paraguay this time, but I won't bear a grudge

Wow, great equalizer from Bolivia.

Yeah that was fantastic, they're showing more energy now too

Chile flirting with elimination now :c

I have always been slightly put off the copa america by its numbing frequency, but more crucially its not televised much. I watched costa rica - Paraguay this time, but I won't bear a grudge
― ogmor, Friday, 10 June 2016 01:44 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Except for this centenary edition it has been changed to every 4 years since 2007,and will be that way in future (ignoring this tournament).

Fuck sake puch smh

Jesus vidal

Nice save on the fk

A bunch of my friends texting and such trying to get me to go to the ARGvPAN game at Soldier Field tonight, cheapest Stubhub seats are $135... I'll be staying on the couch for this one.

Nice save on the fk

Eight minutes!

Ho boy

Ugh

Ahhh holy shit

Love this chaos

That was a very soft penalty. MLS refs :/

Bolivia had their chance to equalise tho, jesus.

Chile live to fight another day, theyre not going to do too well this tournament based on what we've seen.

Here comes the CONCACAF filth

on the one hand, it's nice to not watch a complete bus park fest. Panama is obviously raw and lack technical skills but they're fairly good athletes with some speed and sometimes they overachieve through sheer will.

But they're also flop artists and much like Bolivia, their defensive strategy is jumping on opposing players' backs and wailing away.

also lol was that five yellows in fifteen minutes?

p much don't see anybody who's taking down Argentina in this tourney unless Mexico keeps form, but Chile could always regain their form - they just got deflated after the equalizer and were facing a team playing for a draw for 75 of the 90 minutes. Brazil scoring 7 on Haiti is indicative of p much nothing but given who has been bounced already they'll probably go far enough.

lol another yellow

as far as Penedo, I heckle him every time his punk ass comes to Orlando.

$132 might have been worth it to see Messi except what's the point of putting him in if they rack up a multi-goal lead. possibly just to tune him up but they could just as easily do that in the next match.

a lot of money for something that will only occupy two hours of your night

no flow to this shit at all. this is turning into last year's Gold Cup

Godoy deserved that shit. this is goonball, not football.

https://twitter.com/TotalMLS/status/741451097319952388

Dumbass MLS, lol

Surprising too because the Dallas academy is like top 2-3 in the league

lol damn. any other famous MLS flameouts that became studs in Europe?

short night for Di Maria

Good question. The immediate name that comes to mind is Bedoya, I remember reading that MLS lowballed him on a contract and he went to Sweden instead, then on to France etc.

I'm sure there are more. Probably mostly Liga MX players?

I keep hoping Larin will eventually become the complete package in Orlando but I feel like he's gonna get poached away by Europe long before we'll ever find out.

garbage first half. shoulda saved the Arg-Chile group match for later, just diminishing returns for that group until the elimination round. tho the Chile-Bolivia 2nd half was entertaining and crazy as hell.

Looks like maybe a handball

chile vs uruguay starts now. promises to be a good game.

alexis just tracked someone back there 0_0

hes played well so far tbf

columbia v chile in two and a half hours: colombia the best team of the tournament so far.

heart says la roja de todos, head says colombia

chile were late getting to the stadium so the game is delayed lol

oh my god, an absolute travesty of a VAR decision overturning a perfectly legal chile goal. i am fucking raging.

get VAR to fuck

ok they're VARing another definitely fine goal and if it gets chopped off i am going to literally go insane.

oh and he has, handball. for one of those daft handball nothings (guy had his arm at a 90 degree angle resting on his chest and the ball hit it and his chest without him having any chance to do anything about it

some of these haircuts are super high maintenance.

True.

I'm drunk and listening to Nueva Cancion. My dad messagd me around midnight my time because he turned his phone on when he woke up in anticipation of a message from me regarding the score.

This golden generation might just have it in them

Hope so

we weren't watching the game but then realized it was on because of being able to hear the chileans cheer.

second-half collapse by canada

Don’t you mean to post that on this thread: CONCACAF (soccer)

indeed so

Strange that Argentina was the only team that scored in the quarter finals.

Chile could definitely go all the way. Nobody has been particularly impressive.

Weird that VAR was relatively unobtrusive in 2018 World Cup and so abysmal this year. Probably due to the terrible 6/1 rule rollout that has every nothing called a handball

well that was rough.

peru beat chile 3-0 to go through to the final vs brazil (who beat argentina, likely ending lionel messi's chances of ever winning a trophy with argentina).

brazil of course beat peru 5-0 already the tournament, so, not sure the final is going to be a classic.

nice for peru tho, first final since 1975.

I didn't see this game but I did see Peru v Uruguay last weekend and would never have bet on Peru against Chile after that

Messi sent off for quite literally nothing. Game has gone. pic.twitter.com/3qyJHuXRPn

— Adam ✍🏻 (@AdamSport_) July 6, 2019

Messi and Medel sent off for chesting each other.