Copa América: The Oldest Tournament, the Most Unpredictable Continent. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and a Century of South American Pride
M. Muñoz
M. Muñoz
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The Copa América is the oldest international football tournament in the world, first played in Buenos Aires in 1916, a decade before the World Cup existed and decades before Europe organized its own continental championship. This book tells the story of that age through the rivalries that built it: Argentina against Uruguay in the amateur years of the 1920s, when a single disputed free kick gave the world the term “gol olímpico”; Uruguay's back-to-back Olympic titles and its 1930 World Cup crown; Brazil's slower, harder climb to the top of South American football; and the surprise champions, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia, and Chile, who broke what could easily have become a two- or three-team monopoly. It follows the tournament through renamed formats, missed editions, tournaments staged under military governments and fragile democracies, and a later era of invited guests from Mexico to the United States and beyond. It closes with the modern story most readers already know in outline: Lionel Messi's long wait for a senior title with Argentina, and the night in Rio de Janeiro in 2021 when that wait finally ended. Written for general readers and grounded in verifiable history, this is the record of a hundred years of South American football.
The Copa América is the oldest international football tournament in the world, first played in Buenos Aires in 1916, a decade before the World Cup existed and decades before Europe organized its own continental championship. This book tells the story of that age through the rivalries that built i...
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