Copa America 2011

Draw imminent. Some very stirring footage and music on Fox Sports Vivo right now.

will both Japan ánd Mexico send u23 teams? cause if Japan sends a senior team I'm rooting for their win.

Mexico are sending an u23 team + 5 senior players I believe - which must be just about a full-strength squad, they're a pretty young team. Don't know about Japan.

last time Japan participated they were v. shitty though, even losing to Peru.

When was that? Japan were certainly much better at the world cup than I'd ever seen them before.

This dancing is pretty great.

1999

they'll do better this time for sure. i never catched the Copa on Eurosport though, as far as i can recall. maybe it's a time zone thing. Asian Cups can be pretty cool (Uzbekistan!)

It's kind of frustrating the USA sent a roster of scrubs and n00bs in 2007 and basically screwed our chances of ever being invited again.

I never see them either xp, except one year - I think it was also 1999, though I don't remember Japan. I do remember it for one of the greatest displays I've ever seen though, Argentina outplaying hot favourites Brazil for 45 minutes in one of the semis or quarters (before getting skelped in the second half)

with the arrival of the interwebz i guess there are plenty of opportunities to catch some coverage.

in my memory, but i might be making this up, the only Copa stuff is always sort of gritty/chaotic/cheap looking images of the goals in pouring rain, shown in the afternoon sports tv journal.

That was the most underwhelming display of samba I think I've ever seen

I mean, aiui samba queens do not in general wear long, baggy white dresses

classic overblown sound on the stream of this that I've turned on

finally

This manner of revealing and displaying the teams is pretty stylish, or would be if they just let the women get on with a flourish and kept the fat guy from spoiling the moment

That guy's blazer reminds me of David Byrne in Stop Making Sense

A: Argentina, Colombia, Japan, Bolivia
B: Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela
C: Uruguay, Chile Mexico, Peru

See y'all in July

C = El Grupo del muerte?

woah, excellent mascot

Preview of Copa dream final (apologies to Chile and Uruguay) Brazil vs. Argentina tonight. Excellent first 20 mins here. Only the second time I'm seeing Football Manager 10 'wonderkid' Neymar play, rocking a rad mohawk btw, he's looked good so far. Alves has hit the bar and Mascherano has almost scored an own goal. Brazil look more offensive than the Dunga model thus far.

Thanks for the tip - where are they playing at this hour? Dubai or somewhere?

xp Doha
Just showed a shot of Fergie and Zidane on what appeared to be thrones chatting up a storm.

Last 20 mins hasn't been as good although Messi rocketed a sweet half volley off the post.

Strange decision there - Neymar upended on edge of box, it breaks for Robinho to shoot so ref gives advantage, only to give him offside.

worst streaker ever

great goal

Oh Messi, how I love thee. Lavezzi (sp?) was good down the right for Arg I thought. Robinho selfish and wasteful. But yeah, what a goal.

it really was maradonaesque, he was even being bundled over as he finished. The four defenders converging on Messi was like his assist in Caniggia's goal against Brazil in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X3p0_R0Y5E

great piece of commentary on that clip too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8Y27O42LY

sorry to clog thread, but this one is even better

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/wires/04/04/2080.ap.soc.copa.america.japan.out.1st.ld.writethru.0255/

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -Japan withdrew from this year's Copa America on Monday, leaving the 12-nation tournament with only 11 teams just three months before it is due to start.

sucks. someone on twitter said that costa rica would be the replacement.

aren't they in the gold cup this summer? USA did both the last time around but sent the lowliest scrubs to the copa

Is that tsunami-related?

Actually reading the story indicates that it is. Other sides should be falling over themselves to step in imo.

ah such a pity.

hope there will be a replacement, what about.. Togo! New Zealand! Canada!

spain?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/9581149

would be cool, but also would be a difficult group for argentina

That would set some benchmark, being World, Euro and Copa America champions simultaneously.

nevermind, Japon is back on

deja vu
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/920708/japan-officially-withdraw-from-2011-copa-america?cc=5901

There are no fewer than 7 Mexican players who are being sent home because of having prostitutes in their hotel rooms while in Quito. 7!

lol u23 team

wonder if they'll be allowed to replace them like they did with the gold cup team grumble grumble

http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mexico-Prostitutes.jpg

Damn really wanted to see Jonathan dos Santos.

Mexico is/are fucking crazy

When does this start?

Tournament will stream live on youtube starting this Friday.

this tournament isn't fitting round my work schedule well. doesn't help that all the games are pretty late at night if you're in britland. i think i'll get to see one of chile's group matches live :/

although surely the story here has to be messi running the show and leading argentina to glorious victory at home?

I hope brazil don't win. I like that they have a relatively poor record in this, and them winning it a few times recently is threatening to ruin that.

chile's goalie kinda fucked it up on the second goal

This is what makes me excited for next summer, because Germany could start somewhere from 6 to 9 Bayern players (Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Badstuber, Contento, Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Muller, Gomez) plus two more whose year-round objective #1 is to beat Barcelona. That might make for a great tournament and final.

― boxall, Monday, 18 July 2011 02:02 (16 hours ago)

shit yeah this is exciting!

And don't forget liverpool's monopoly on England

Newcastle have basically only been buying French players recently. The resurgence of Les Bleus could begin there

Passed out during the chile game :( golden generation,squandered a real chance to win this thing.

<3 Luis Suarez.

I was about to make some comment about how he's done little in this Copa except argue with every single opposing player - he's world class at that - then I checked ESPN, completely forgot there was a match tonight! Was it good?

It was okay I guess. Peru had a couple of good chances and Uruguay tried to make the play more than they have in previous games. Suarez finishes were both simple but predatory.

it seemed like he really scuffed his shot for the second. nasty elbow from vargas too.

more PKs

instead of "kinda lol mostly sad", PKs are "kinda ! mostly :-/"

These were at least well-taken. Match was very dull though.

yeah

So Paraguay are in the final without having won a single match? All draws?

yours, outraged PSV fan

lol

The match indeed was dull. And my sky+ recording finished after the third Paraguay penalty. So I sat through 120 mins of tedium without the pay off of a penalty shootout. Bah. That's me and you through forever Copa America!

Another thing that's Murdoch's gault

fault ffs. Also, I feel a bit cheated that it turns out you haven't been watching live - had been imagining all sorts of glamorous soirées topped off by some Costa Rica v Ecuador

Haha. I set off to work at 1am most days so have to watch when I finish mid morning. The other day I had 2 Copa games and 2 WWC games to get through. I watched both women's games and one Copa, but cheated on the last and started it at the beginning of the 2nd half.

the only good thing about paraguay is how crazy dr francia was.

ok in fact lucas barrios is pretty cool, was playing 2nd division football in argentina at 21 years old, five years later is one of the highest rated strikes in europe's 3rd biggest league.

http://www.ole.com.ar/copa-america/argentina/imagenes-eliminacion-argentina_OLEIMA20110717_0083_8.jpg

Great start to the final. Fantastic header from a corner by Diego Lugano well-saved, but a PAR player got away with slapping the rebound shot away with his hand. Led to a lighting counter-attack finally stopped by Forlan defending in his own area.

Slapped it away with both hands, I should say.

Suarez looks as dangerous as ever.

game is tight

LUISITO!!!!!

GOL!

Fucking amazing touch to set up that shot.

awesome celebration

PARTIDAZO

forlan <3

Oh gosh, that finish was nice.

Yeah, Arevalo teed him up nicely too though, real soft touch, he's not just a reducer.

well, that'll do

Beautiful goal

Really happy for them, they're a terrific side.

AHI ESTÁ LA GLORIOSA CELESTE
COMO HACEN ESTO
3 MILLIONES
PERDIDOS EN EL MAPA

amazing that Forlan joins his father and grandfather in winning the Copa America

Announcement coming tomorrow of Copa America Centenario 2016, to be played in the US with CONMEBOL + CONCACAF teams. This seems like it could be really good.

http://americansoccernow.com/articles/copa-america-centenario-could-be-a-game-changer

June 3-26, 2016
10 CONMEBOL teams
6 CONCACAF teams

Interesting that it will overlap with Euro 2016. Gonna be some big big days of game-watching.

Have just been blithely assuming that this year's Copa would be showing on Eurosport, BT, or Sky only to find out that it's exclusive to Premier Sports which I don't have a subscription for. Gutted.

ah but you do

YouTube? I dunno if they're doing it eveywhere but I think they're live streaming the whole thing in some countries, could use a proxy if it's not happening where you are?

Cheers Windsor, I'll catch the odd game like that but was hoping to record and watch later as I'm at work during most of the games.

youtube thing not happening at all it seems, misinformation in the press, bullshit. reduced to watching a stream of the American coverage... Ray fuckin Hudson man, what does "parabolic vision" even mean? He's calling Vidal "King Arthur" tonight.

that guy is a fucking nut

pands, reviving a thread from the last copa is taking new thread parsimony a bit far

Ended up getting a 2 month minimum subscription for a tenner.

New thread started Nakh.