Carlos Orbe. Christian Lescano. Claudio Puga. Marvin Bejarano. Eduardo Villegas. Byron Romero. Piero Maza.

Esteban Ostojich. Jorge Larrionda. Dani Alves. Eduardo Cardozo. Arnaldo Samaniego. Wilmar Navarro. Pablo Silva.

Ubaldo Aquino. Arena Fonte Nova , Salvador. Tiros desde el punto penal. Giorgian De Arrascaeta.

Some did not participate every year, others sent lesser teams; in the edition held in Ecuador, Brazil entered a team from the state of Pernambuco.

Bolivia won for the first time when it hosted in , but was defeated in the first game of the tournament by debutant Venezuela. The founding of the Copa Libertadores in also affected the way the tournament was viewed by its participants.

The tournament had no fixed venue, and all matches were played throughout the year in each country. Nine teams participated in the group stages with the defending champions receiving a bye into the semifinals.

The tournament was contested every four years using this system until From until , the event was hosted every two years in rotation by the ten members of the confederation.

The format would remain constant with a first round of groups, but the final round stage ranged from being a new, final round-robin group or a single-elimination system to decide the winner.

This renewal helped the tournament, which began to receive television coverage in Europe and North America. Despite entering as heavy favorites for being the reigning world champions having won the FIFA World Cup , playing at home and having a team largely composed of its World Cup winners led by the legendary Diego Maradona , Argentina would finish in a disappointing fourth place after being beaten by defending champions Uruguay 0—1 in the semifinals.

Uruguay would defeat a surprisingly strong Chilean squad who made it to the final, disposing of the powerful Brazil 4—0 on the group stage.

Uruguay managed to win the competition in as host, ending a period of decline for Uruguayan football. With the implementation of rotating hosts, Colombia , Paraguay and Venezuela hosted the tournament for the first time.

Brazil entered a series of victories, winning four of the five continental titles between and Brazil would successfully defend the title in after thumping Uruguay 3—0 in Asuncion , Paraguay.

Colombia, the host nation, would go on to win the competition for the first time ever. From to , the tournament was contested every three years, and from forward every four years, with the exception of the tournament's centennial in Running from an embarrassing performance in , Brazil reestablished itself in the South American pantheon after defeating Argentina, on penalties, in order to win the competition held in Peru.

Three years later , the two teams met again in the final, this time in Venezuela. Once again, Brazil came out victorious after crushing Argentina 3—0.

Argentina hosted the competition and was ousted by Uruguay in the quarterfinals by penalty shootout. Uruguay would go on defeating Peru 2—0 in the semis to reach the finals and overpower Paraguay 3—0, thus winning the trophy on Argentinean soil for the third time and second in a row.

This, the 43rd edition, was the first time that neither Argentina nor Brazil reached the semifinals of a tournament they both had entered. Chile went on to win the tournament, their first title, on home soil.

A second rotation commenced in , with host countries rotating in alphabetical order, starting with Argentina. The swap was made official in May South American Championship of Nations was the official English language name.

Messi and co. They will certainly hope Messi ends his time away from the national team to try and avenge those defeats then, and it looks like the Barcelona maestro could well be set to return.

Years won: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , As well as being the smallest country by population to have ever won the FIFA World Cup, Uruguay is also the smallest country to have won Copa America, making their status as the most successful team in the history of the competition even more spectacular.

More than half of their successes came at the beginning of the 20th century, with two of them sandwiched in between their World Cup successes of and After placing in Copa America for five tournaments in a row, Uruguay only reached the quarter-finals in and disappointingly crashed out in the group stages a year later, at the Copa America Centenario.

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The game played at Lima was won by the Peruvians 2 to 0. Even though this meant Peru should win by the goal difference, a last game was played at the city of Caracas.

With a goal at the 25th minute of the game by Hugo Sotil , Peru obtained its second international title.

Paraguay and Chile also were part of this group. Peru tied with Brazil 0—0, tied with Paraguay 1—1 and beat Chile 1—0. In semifinals Peru was eliminated by Mexico 4—2.

The team was able to reach the quarterfinals of this cup and eliminated Argentina to advanced into the semifinals.

In the semifinals, Peru faced Brazil, and lost by a margin of 7 to 0 Peru's worst result to date. For the third place spot, Peru faced Mexico.

The game was won by Mexico by a goal scored at the 82nd minute of the game. This began a wave of criticism against Peru's then coach Paulo Autuori , who boycotted the media, and his squad.

Peru made its debut against Uruguay , with a draw, with Paolo Guerrero scoring for Peru. A win over Mexico came next and finally a loss against Chile, which it suffered due to a 90th minute own goal of a corner kick, would qualify Peru to the next round.

At the quarterfinals match, Peru faced Colombia. All analysts placed Colombia as the big favorites.

At the semifinals Peru lost against the eventual champion Uruguay. Peru moved on to the third place match against the other surprise of the tournament, Venezuela.

Copa America will feature 10 teams from South American confederation CONMEBOL and two teams from the AFC (Asian Football Confederation). The 10 CONMEBOL representatives are: Argentina. Copa América El equipo de Perú que debutó en el certamen contra Venezuela | FOTOS Un dia como hoy, pero en , Perú debutó en la Copa América Brasil ante Venezuela, El encuentro quedó. Peru has passed the group stage in each of the last nine appearances in the CONMEBOL Copa América. The rojiblanco team dreams of winning the tournament title again, after their distant conquests of and Peru had an acceptable participacion in this Copa América when they passed as the leaders of their group with 4 points, 1 more point than Brazil. Paraguay and Chile also were part of this group. Peru tied with Brazil 0–0, tied with Paraguay 1–1 and beat Chile 1–0. The lead scorer for Peru in this competition was José del Solar with three goals. In semifinals Peru was eliminated by Mexico 4–2. Copyright © All rights reserved. CONMEBOL Copa América Argentina - Colombia >.