Copa América 2004-Football (Soccer)-Virtual Tour of Peru

Chile 1, Costa Rica 2, in a very entertaining game.
The winning goal was on the very last minute.

Today, again, Chileans played better than their rivals but, again, missed so many scoring chances. And matches are defined by goals.

One good thing is that Bolivia, who showed nothing at all, was eliminated.

So another quarterfinal is defined: Colombia-Costa Rica.

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fbaezer wrote:

Argentina 4, Uruguay 2. Nice match.

Peru got exactly what it tried to avoid with the rigged draw... to face Argentina early in the tournament.

Yes,

Argentina for the Copa America victory. I don´t like the football team from Brazil.

btw, Argentina´s Crespo move frim Chelsea to Ac Milan for one year. Good transfer.

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Paraguay 2, Brazil 1.

I didn't watch it, but it seems to have been the best game of the qualifying round.
It was an open game, with Paraguay defending itself to keep the lead only in the last ten minutes, after one of their men got a red card.
This is the second time in a row the Paraguayan team defeats Brazil. They eliminated the Verde-amarelha in the Olympic tournament. Now, the same team, with the three over 23 reinforcements (Craven's favorite, Gamarra, among them) deservedly won their group.
If they keep the mentality, with this football team, Paraguay may win their first Olympic medal ever, in any sport.

The quarter-finals are set:

Colombia - Costa Rica
Peru - Argentina
Paraguay - Uruguay
Mexico - Brazil

There's a national transport strike in Peru. Brazil, second in group C, has to move from Arequipa, in the South, to Piura, in the North, to face Mexico, first in group B. Will they make it to the game?...

Damn, I guess they won't be using public transportation. No forfeit. We'll have to beat them with goals.

Thok, I'm glad you don't like the football team from Brazil... I guess this means you'll root for Mexico Wink

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fbaezer wrote:

[...]

Mexico - Brazil
[...]
Thok, I'm glad you don't like the football team from Brazil... I guess this means you'll root for Mexico

at this game of course ...

Mexico will be beats Brazil.......

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go Costa Rica!
go Peru!
go Mexico!
and...
hmmm...
hmmm...
okay....
go Uruguay!

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fbaezer wrote:

Colombia - Costa Rica
Peru - Argentina

I didn´t watched the games, just read the reports: Colombia-Costa Rica 2:0 and Peru -Argentina 0:1 very good :-)

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Uruguay 3-1 Paraguay , that´s a incidental game ....

because the top game:

NO Mexico - Brazil 0:4 they downright trashed Mexico. two goals Adriano and he also set up two others.

now the Semifinals in Lima
Argentina -Colombia
Brazil - Uruguay

Argentina and Uruguay!

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Yeah Thok, it was like Czech Republik - Denmark, only worse.

With the game 0-1 (a penalty kick in the first half), and with Mexico almost making the tying goal, a lethal play by Adriano put the game 0-2. Mexico went wildly on attack and lost order. At the end, a 0-5 seemed more probable than a 1-4.

Brazil hadn't beaten us in our last six matches. Now they took complete revenge.

This is typical Mexico: we often win group play, and we always get busted somewhere in the road to the finals (or in the final game, as in last Copa America).

I think the final will be Argentina-Brazil.
Sad

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fbaezer wrote:

I think the final will be Argentina-Brazil.

If so, then Argentina should win !

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MyOwnUsername wrote:

go Costa Rica!
go Peru!
go Mexico!
and...
hmmm...
hmmm...
okay....
go Uruguay!

Your usual 25% quota.
Grrrr. Wink

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fbaezer wrote:

Yeah Thok, it was like Czech Republik - Denmark, only worse.

With the game 0-1 (a penalty kick in the first half), and with Mexico almost making the tying goal, a lethal play by Adriano put the game 0-2. Mexico went wildly on attack and lost order. At the end, a 0-5 seemed more probable than a 1-4.

Brazil hadn't beaten us in our last six matches. Now they took complete revenge.

This is typical Mexico: we often win group play, and we always get busted somewhere in the road to the finals (or in the final game, as in last Copa America).

I think the final will be Argentina-Brazil.

Bummer -- 0-4? I didn't see the game, but it sounds like it must have been hard to watch the second half... unless you were rooting for Brazil.

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Mexico, unbeaten in six meetings with Brazil, was still in contention until the 66th minute when it lost the ball in midfield and Adriano scored with a low shot from the edge of the penalty area.

Adriano added his second in the 79th minute and set up Ricardo Oliveira in the 87th as the game became a rout.

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Just wondering...
Why is everyone so down on Brazil?

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George, I prefer Brazil over any team outside the continent. And it's always nice to see them play. But they're too strong, like the New York Yankees of world football.

Uruguay has been a traditional "black beast" for Brazilians, since "The Tragedy of Maracaná" (Uruguay beating them in the final of World Cup 1950, in Brazil), but man against man, it's a very inferior team.

Argentina did not put a good game against weak Peru. Brazil, instead, played very effectively against Mexico. If that doesn't change, Brazil will recover Copa America. But I still believe Argentina is, all in all, a better side.

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I'm not down on Brazil, George. They are a fabulous team and never quit. Beating Brazil is difficult because they have it all: athleticism, accuracy, and for the most part, good team cooperation despite a huge number of star players. Usually their bench holds more star players than the starting lineups of most teams. It was just Mexico's bad luck to play Brazil so early in the finals and it sounds like they held their own for a long while.

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fbaezer wrote:

But they're too strong [..]

exactly

I prefer rather (not in this order) Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina.

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Time to visit Ayacucho, just before today's semifinal in Lima.

Ayacucho is Perú's most important city outside the coast. It was particularly important during the colonial years and it's historical center is considered the most beautiful in the country.

http://www.ayacuchoperu.com/turismo/imagen/parquesucre.jpg

http://www.traficoperu.com/images/ciudades/ayacucho.gif

Near Ayacucho's airport, you can find the excavations of Conchopata, a ceramic center of the Warpas, from 500 A.D.

http://www.ayacuchoperu.com/turismo/imagen/conchopata.jpg

Not far, you'll see the sanctuary of Pampa de la Quinúa, right where the Battle of Ayacucho, key to Peruvian independence, took place.

http://www.ayacuchoperu.com/turismo/imagen/obelisco.jpg

About 70 miles from Ayacucho, stands Vilcashuaman; Willka Huaman ("The Golden Hawk"), what used to be the most important administrative center of the Incas. Vilcashuaman has an altitude of 3470 meters (a little bit over two miles)

http://www.ayacuchoperu.com/turismo/imagen/vilcashuaman.jpg

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No games are held in Ayacucho.
The reason? Political unrest.
Ayacucho has been traditionally a politically troubled city, where the racial/social clashes are more violent. It is in the middle of a region inhabited mostly by Quechuas and Aymaras, descendants of the Incas. The Incas were conquered and repressed with more violence than elsewhere in Latin America. And, unlike other countries with large indigenous population, slavery was common (it was abolished in 1854).

Rebellions and uprisings have been common. The last one, very bloody, was lead by the fanatical Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), whose trademark was to hang dogs from lamp-posts, prophetizing the end for "Capitalists and their lackeys".

This graffiti in Ayacucho is relatively new (PCP stands for Partido Comunista del Perú/ Sendero Luminoso)

http://www.csrp.org/photos/ayacucho-pcp.jpg

This picture was staged by the senderistas in a training camp, a decade ago.

http://www.artehistoria.com/tienda/banco/jpg/KDG13837.jpg

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To end this part of the tour, Ayacucho is also known in Latin America as the home of Big Cola, perhaps Peru's most succesfull entrepreneurial story.

Oddly enough, it all started with Shining Path.
In the eighties, Sendero Luminoso attacked all the trailers and trucks that brought Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola to Ayacucho. They'd spill the "black liquid of Yankee imperialism" and burn the vehicles. The flow of fresh drinks stopped.
This meant there was no Coca-Cola, no Pepsi-Cola in Ayacucho. No "sparkle of life".
A lower-middle class family in Ayacucho, the Añañas, invented a drink, with cola nuts, coriander, lemon and orange. It tasted a lot like Coke. They sold their house in $30,000 and built a small factory with discarded pieces of an old destilery. Big Cola was a smash in Ayacucho, and later in all Peru, and it's now conquering the rest of Latin America.
Ayacucho was the easy part. Elsewhere Coca-Cola and Pepsico have done almost everything to stop Big Cola. If a supermarket or a retailer sells Big Cola, Coca-Cola and Pepsico boycott it. But little by little, the transnational giants have yielded.
Now Big Cola controls 20% of the soft drink market in Peru, and about 5% in other Latin American nations.
The real secret of Big Cola? It's cheap. Less than half the price of a Coke or a Pepsi.

http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/images/news/finanzas/2004/03/e9888587061f9764075732fbffbddcdc.jpg

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No real dog was harmed to make this picture. It is a "work of art" named "Sendero Luminoso":

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/Images/robinson2-13-6s.jpg

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very interesting cultur.....

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