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Venues Revealed For 2024 Copa America In USA | Football News
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Venues Revealed For 2024 Copa America In USA | Football News

[ad_1] Next year's 48th edition of the Copa America, featuring 10 South American nations and six North American teams, will be held in 14 venues across 10 US states, organizers said on Monday. South American governing body CONMEBOL had already announced that the June 20 opener would be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta with the final on July 14 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. On Monday CONMEBOL revealed that AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, NRG Stadium in Houston, State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, will host quarter-final matches.Semi-finals will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.Other venues are Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas, SoFi Stadium in Los...
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“Respect Elders”: Lionel Messi Reacts After Manuel Ugarte’s Obscene Gesture Towards Rodrigo De Paul During World Cup Qualifier | Football News
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“Respect Elders”: Lionel Messi Reacts After Manuel Ugarte’s Obscene Gesture Towards Rodrigo De Paul During World Cup Qualifier | Football News

[ad_1] Uruguay ended Argentina's 14-match unbeaten streak with a 2-0 victory over the world champions in FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers on Thursday. Defender Ronald Araujo fired Uruguay ahead on 41 minutes before Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez made the game safe with an 87th-minute goal on the counterattack to settle a hard-fought clash at the Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires. The game was filled with clashes and one of them included a verbal fight between Uruguay's Manuel Ugarte and Argentina's Rodrigo de Paul.Ugarte made an obscene gesture towards De Paul that seemigly involved Messi. Ugarte allegedly said De Paul that the World Cup winner is Messi's "bottle feeder".After the game, Messi reacted, saying that his South American rivals needed to learn to respect."It's normal. These kind...
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Uruguay Stun Argentina; Emotional Luis Diaz Double As Colombia Sink Brazil | Football News
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Uruguay Stun Argentina; Emotional Luis Diaz Double As Colombia Sink Brazil | Football News

[ad_1] Uruguay ended Argentina's 14-match unbeaten streak with a 2-0 victory over the world champions in World Cup qualifiers on Thursday as Luis Diaz scored twice to fire Colombia to an emotional 2-1 win over Brazil. Defender Ronald Araujo fired Uruguay ahead on 41 minutes before Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez made the game safe with an 87th-minute goal on the counterattack to settle a hard-fought clash at the Bombonera Stadium in Buenos Aires. It was Lionel Messi and Argentina's first defeat of the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign, and their first loss since they were stunned 2-1 by Saudi Arabia at the 2022 finals in Qatar."We never felt comfortable," Messi said after the defeat."They're a physical team that works well and on the counterattack they were very dangerous," added Messi, ...
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Luis Suarez Returns To Uruguay Squad For Argentina Clash | Football News
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Luis Suarez Returns To Uruguay Squad For Argentina Clash | Football News

[ad_1] Luis Suarez in action© AFPUruguay's record goalscorer Luis Suarez on Monday received his first call-up under new coach Marcelo Bielsa who named the 36-year-old in his squad to face Argentina this week in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Suarez, with 68 international goals to his name, has been in superb form for Brazilian club Gremio with 16 goals in 29 games but has not featured for Uruguay since Bielsa took over in May. Thursday's match against Argentina will be his first for the national team since they were eliminated from the World Cup in Qatar in the group stages last year.Edinson Cavani, who has 58 international goals to his name, was left out after picking up an injury playing for Boca Juniors.If he plays, Suarez is likely to come up against his former Barcelona teammate L...
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Neymar Jr Has Torn Knee Ligament, Facing Surgery | Football News
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Neymar Jr Has Torn Knee Ligament, Facing Surgery | Football News

[ad_1] Neymar twisted his knee in a collision with Uruguayan midfielder Nicolas de la Cruz.© AFPFootball superstar Neymar has a torn ligament and meniscus in his left knee and will have to undergo surgery after being injured during Brazil's 2-0 loss to Uruguay, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said Wednesday. The 31-year-old, who joined Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal from Paris Saint-Germain in August, was stretchered off in tears just before halftime in Brazil's 2026 World Cup qualifying match in Montevideo Tuesday. Neymar will undergo surgery for the injuries at a "yet-to-be-determined date," the CBF said, after a series of medical exams on the player in Sao Paulo."Brazilian and world football need Neymar healthy and recovered, because football is happier when he's on the pitch,...
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Neymar Injured As Brazil Lose To Uruguay, Lionel Messi Double Helps Argentina Stay Perfect | Football News
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Neymar Injured As Brazil Lose To Uruguay, Lionel Messi Double Helps Argentina Stay Perfect | Football News

[ad_1] Lionel Messi scored two goals as Argentina extended their perfect start to South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday with a 2-0 victory over Peru. The Inter Miami star took his international goal tally to 106 with strikes in the 32nd and 42nd minutes at Lima's Estadio Nacional. Messi's first-half brace left reigning world champions Argentina on top of the South American qualifying table with 12 points from four games, five points clear of Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela, who all have seven points.Restored to the starting line-up after coming off the bench in last Thursday's 1-0 win over Paraguay, Messi showed no sign of the injuries that have recently limited his appearances in Major League Soccer.The 36-year-old crashed home an emphatic opener just after the half-...
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Brazil Held By Venezuela As Argentina Stay Perfect In World Cup Qualifiers | Football News
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Brazil Held By Venezuela As Argentina Stay Perfect In World Cup Qualifiers | Football News

[ad_1] A stunning 85th-minute equalizer from Eduard Bello earned Venezuela a rare draw at Brazil while world champions Argentina made it three wins out of three in South American World Cup qualifying with a hard-earned 1-0 win over a determined Paraguay on Thursday. Darwin Nunez struck a stoppage time penalty as Uruguay fought back for a 2-2 draw with Colombia in Barranquilla while Ecuador got their first points with a last gasp 2-1 win at Bolivia and Chile beat Peru 2-0.A third-minute goal from Nicolas Otamendi was just enough for Lionel Scaloni's Argentina, with Lionel Messi coming off in the bench in the second half and hitting the woodwork twice.Brazil have never lost to Venezuela in a competitive fixture and have only once before, in 2009, failed to beat the Vinotinto in World Cup q...
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Fabian O’Neill, Hailed By Zinedine Zidane As “Most Talented Player Ever”, Dead At 49 | Football News
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Fabian O’Neill, Hailed By Zinedine Zidane As “Most Talented Player Ever”, Dead At 49 | Football News

[ad_1] Fabian O'Neill earned 19 caps for Uruguay and scored two goals.© AFPFormer Uruguay international midfielder Fabian O'Neill, once hailed by Zinedine Zidane as "the most talented player" he'd ever seen, died Sunday after a long battle with alcoholism. He was 49. "Goodbye Wizard," tweeted O'Neill's formative club Nacional after he passed away due to chronic cirrhosis in a Montevideo hospital where he had been rushed on Saturday suffering from a hemorrhage. "The most talented player I've ever seen," was how French World Cup winner Zidane, a teammate at Juventus, described O'Neill.After making his debut for Nacional at the age of 18 in 1992, O'Neill was transferred to Cagliari in Italy three years later.In 2000, he moved to Juventus but after playing for the Turin giants for just one s...
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Ghana’s Daniel Amartey Says It Was “Important” To Deny Uruguay World Cup Progression | Football News
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Ghana’s Daniel Amartey Says It Was “Important” To Deny Uruguay World Cup Progression | Football News

[ad_1] Ghana defender Daniel Amartey admitted his team were determined that if they could not qualify for the World Cup knockout stage, they would at least prevent Uruguay from doing so. The South American side triumphed 2-0 on Friday but both sides were eliminated due to South Korea's last-gasp 2-1 win over group winners Portugal. The bad blood between Uruguay and Ghana dates back 12 years to the infamous Luis Suarez handball that denied Ghana an extra-time winner in the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals.Suarez was sent off but Asamoah Gyan missed the subsequent penalty and Uruguay triumphed in the shoot-out.Once South Korea scored in stoppage time in Qatar on Friday, Uruguay realised they needed another goal to reach the last 16 while Ghana needed two.But the South Americans missed out on ...
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Luis Suarez Heroics Not Enough As Uruguay, Ghana Exit World Cup | Football News
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Luis Suarez Heroics Not Enough As Uruguay, Ghana Exit World Cup | Football News

[ad_1] Uruguay crashed out of the World Cup on Friday despite beating Ghana 2-0 after South Korea scored a late winner in the other Group H match to leapfrog the South American side. Giorgian De Arrascaeta netted twice in quick succession in the first half, with 35-year-old Luis Suarez having a hand in both goals. However, Suarez finished the match on the bench in tears as he news came in of South Korea's last-gasp victory over Portugal, which meant the Asian side had moved above the Uruguayans into second place in Group H on goals scored.Veteran striker Suarez had been at the centre of the pre-match build-up because of his infamous handball in the 2010 quarter-finals, which helped eliminate Ghana. His name was booed loudly by the Ghana fans when it was read out by the stadium announcers...
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