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2007 Copa América

2007 Copa América
FieldValue
year2007
other_titlesCopa América Venezuela 2007
image2007 Copa América logo.svg
size200px
captionCopa América 2007 official logo
countryVenezuela
dates26 June – 15 July
num_teams12
confederations2
venues9
cities9
championBrazil
count8
secondArgentina
thirdMexico
fourthUruguay
matches26
goals86
attendance1050230
top_scorerRobinho (6 goals)
playerRobinho
young_playerLionel Messi
prevseason[2004](2004-copa-america)
nextseason[2011](2011-copa-america)

The 2007 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, known simply as the 2007 Copa América or 2007 Copa América Venezuela, was the 42nd edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held between 26 June and 15 July in Venezuela, which hosted the tournament for the first time.

The competition was won by Brazil (they were also the defending champions), who beat Argentina 3–0 in the final. Mexico took third place by beating Uruguay 3–1 in the third-place match. Brazil thus won the right to represent CONMEBOL at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Competing nations

As with previous tournaments, all ten members of CONMEBOL participated in the competition. In order to bring the number of competing teams to twelve, CONMEBOL invited Mexico and the United States, the two highest ranking CONCACAF teams in the FIFA World Rankings. Just as in every tournament since 1993, Mexico accepted the invitation. The United States rejected the invitation due to scheduling conflicts with the 2007 Major League Soccer season. CONMEBOL then proceeded to invite Costa Rica, the third highest CONCACAF team in FIFA's ranking. In the end, the United States accepted the invitation.

  • (holders)
  • (invitee)
  • (invitee)
  • (hosts)

Venues

For this Copa América, the organizing committee decided to choose eight cities to hold the tournament. A total of 14 cities presented proposal before the committee, of which they rejected proposals from Barquisimeto, Maracay, Valencia, Valera, Portuguesa and Miranda for not meeting established requirements. The cities of Barinas, Caracas, Ciudad Guayana, Maracaibo, Maturín, Mérida, Puerto la Cruz and San Cristóbal were selected to host the tournament. Later on, the organizing committee reconsidered the candidacy of Barquisimeto, based on the proposal of a new stadium to be built for the city. With a final nine host cities, the 2007 edition broke the previous records for host cities set by the 2004 Copa América in Peru, which used seven.

MaturínBarquisimetoMéridaCiudad GuayanaMaracaiboSan CristóbalPuerto la CruzBarinasCaracas
Estadio Monumental de MaturínEstadio Metropolitano de LaraEstadio Metropolitano de MéridaEstadio Polideportivo Cachamay
Capacity: **52,000**Capacity: **42,000**Capacity: **42,000**Capacity: **41,600**
[[File:Estadio Monumental de Maturín.2.jpgalt=204x204px]][[File:Estadio Metropolitano de Lara.jpg220x220pxalt=]][[File:Estadio metropolitana de merida.jpg220x220pxalt=]][[File:Brasil vs mexico cte cachamay.jpgalt=220x220px]]
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Estadio José Pachencho Romero
Capacity: **40,000**
[[File:Brazil vs. Uruguay Semifinals Copa América 2007 - 2.jpgalt=220x220px]]
Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo NuevoEstadio Olímpico Luis RamosEstadio Agustín TovarEstadio Olímpico de la UCV
Capacity: **40,000**Capacity: **38,000**Capacity: **27,500**Capacity: **24,900**
[[File:Inauguración Copa América 2007.jpg220x220pxalt=]][[File:Venarg3.jpg220x220pxalt=]][[File:Estadio Agustín Tovar.PNG220x220pxalt=]][[File:Estadio Olímpico (Caracas).jpg220x220pxalt=]]

Officials

On 30 May 2007, CONMEBOL announced the list of match officials for the competition. The list included one match official from every country (except Paraguay, which had two). From these thirteen, six officiated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Carlos Simon, Óscar Ruiz, Carlos Amarilla, Jorge Larrionda, and Armando Archundia.

  • Chile Carlos Chandía
  • Argentina Sergio Pezzotta
  • Bolivia René Ortubé
  • Brazil Carlos Simon
  • Colombia Óscar Ruiz
  • Ecuador Mauricio Reinoso
  • Mexico Armando Archundia
  • Paraguay Carlos Amarilla
  • Paraguay Carlos Torres
  • Peru Víctor Rivera
  • Uruguay Jorge Larrionda
  • United States of America Baldomero Toledo
  • Venezuela Manuel Andarcia

Draw

The draw for the competition took place on 14 February 2007 in the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
*(hosts)*
*(invitee)*
*(invitee)*

Squads

Each association had to present a list of twenty-three players to compete in the competition.

Group stage

The first round, or group stage, saw the twelve teams divided into three groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin of six games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams finishing first, second and two best-placed third teams in each group qualified for the Quarter-finals.

Tie-breaking_criteria ;Tie-breaking criteria Teams were ranked on the following criteria: :1. Greater number of points in all group matches :2. Goal difference in all group matches :3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches :4. Head-to-head results :5. Drawing of lots by the CONMEBOL Organising Committee

Key to colors in group tables

All times are in Venezuela Standard Time (UTC–4).

Group A

Main article: 2007 Copa América Group A

Mariño
Guerrero Páez Arce

Arismendi

Campos

Group B

Main article: 2007 Copa América Group B

Benítez Villanueva Morales

Bravo

Group C

Main article: 2007 Copa América Group C

Cabañas Aimar
Tevez

Cardozo
Cabañas Riquelme
D. Milito Castrillón

Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Knockout stage

Main article: 2007 Copa América knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

García
Rodríguez

Baptista
Robinho
Josué
Vágner Love

Torrado
Arce
Blanco
Bravo

Messi
Mascherano

Semi-finals

Abreu Baptista Scotti
González
C. Rodríguez
Abreu
García
Lugano Juan Gilberto Silva A. Alves Diego Fernando Gilberto

Messi
Riquelme

Third-place match

Bravo
Guardado

Final

Main article: 2007 Copa América Final

Ayala
Dani Alves

Result

Awards

Goalscorers

Robinho, top scorer

With six goals, Robinho was the top scorer in the tournament.

  • Robinho

  • Juan Román Riquelme

  • Nery Castillo

  • Hernán Crespo

  • Júlio Baptista

  • Humberto Suazo

  • Omar Bravo

  • Salvador Cabañas

  • Roque Santa Cruz

  • Diego Forlán

  • Javier Mascherano

  • Lionel Messi

  • Jaime Moreno

  • Jaime Castrillón

  • Cuauhtémoc Blanco

  • Claudio Pizarro

  • Sebastián Abreu

  • Pablo Aimar

  • Gabriel Heinze

  • Diego Milito

  • Carlos Tevez

  • Juan Carlos Arce

  • Jhasmani Campos

  • Dani Alves

  • Josué

  • Juan

  • Vágner Love

  • Maicon

  • Carlos Villanueva

  • Edixon Perea

  • Christian Benítez

  • Édison Méndez

  • Antonio Valencia

  • Fernando Arce

  • Andrés Guardado

  • Ramón Morales

  • Gerardo Torrado

  • Édgar Barreto

  • Óscar Cardozo

  • Paolo Guerrero

  • Juan Carlos Mariño

  • Miguel Villalta

  • Ricardo Clark

  • Eddie Johnson

  • Pablo García

  • Cristian Rodríguez

  • Vicente Sánchez

  • Juan Arango

  • Daniel Arismendi

  • Alejandro Cichero

  • Giancarlo Maldonado

  • Ricardo Páez

  • Roberto Ayala (against Brazil)

Team of the Tournament

GoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards

Final positions

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsEff
16411155+101372.2%
26501166+101583.3%
36411135+81372.2%
4622289−1844.4%
**Eliminated in the quarterfinals**
54202880650.0%
6412156−1541.6%
7411258−3433.3%
84112411−7433.3%
**Eliminated in the first round**
9310239−6333.3%
10302145−1222.2%
11300336−300.0%
12300328−600.0%

Marketing

Sponsorship

Global Platinum Sponsor

  • LG
  • MasterCard

Global Gold Sponsor

  • Telefónica (Movistar is the brand advertised)

Global Silver Sponsor

  • Casio
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev (Skol is the brand advertised)

Charitable Partner

  • UNICEF

Local Supplier

  • PDVSA
  • Empresas Polar (Maltin Polar is the brand advertised)
  • Ole Ole
  • Traffic Group

Match ball

The official match ball for the tournament was the Nike Mercurial Veloci. The ball was presented on 14 February 2007, prior to a friendly match played between Venezuela and New Zealand, by the president of the Venezuelan Football Federation, Rafael Esquivel, to the mayor of Maracaibo, Giancarlo Di Martino – head of the local organising committee.

Mascot

Main article: Guaky

Guaky is a scarlet macaw, a bird representative of Venezuela. He wore the traditional jersey Venezuela national football team burgundy and football shoes. Under their wings the characteristic tricolor national flag, with its eight stars on their wings.

To choose the official mascot held a contest in which proposals received 4,500,000 of Venezuelan children and adolescents at a school. The winning draw corresponded to the 15-year-old Jhoyling Zabaleta. The final design was commissioned to Fractal Studio, bring life and a "strong personality, cheerful and sport" that accompanied the event during its realization. The name of the pet, Guaky was subsequently elected by an online survey, where that option was a 54.17% of preferences.

Theme songs

  • "Gol" by Venezuelan singer Juan Carlos Luces, was the main theme song of the tournament, which was performed during the draw and the opening ceremonies.
  • "Baila la Copa" by Venezuelan singer Ose was an official anthem for the tournament.

References

References

  1. "Copa América Best Players".
  2. (16 July 2007). "Brazil victorious in Copa America". [[BBC Sport]].
  3. The South American champion, along with the European champion (the winner of [[UEFA Euro 2008]]), "will no longer be obliged to take part" in the Confederations Cup beginning with the 2009 edition [https://web.archive.org/web/20080617154816/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/releases/newsid=95756.html FIFA.com – 2005/2006 season: final worldwide matchday to be 14 May 2006].
  4. [[Mexico national football team. Mexico]] and the [[United States men's national soccer team. United States]] are members of CONCACAF, the governing body of North American football (which includes Central America and the Caribbean as well). Thus, they would not be allowed to represent CONMEBOL at the Confederations Cup. Had either team won the Copa América, the best-finishing South American team would have taken the place.
  5. (4 October 2006). "Postergan sorteo de la Copa América 2007". Los Tiempos.
  6. (29 May 2007). "Estados Unidos y México tomarán parte en la Copa América 2007". Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol.
  7. "Conmebol definió por sorteo grupos de la Copa América Venezuela 2007".
  8. "Sorteo de grupos Copa América Venezuela 2007".
  9. (16 July 2007). "El Once Ideal de la Copa América". La República.
  10. (29 June 2006). "Sketch winner of the "Pet Copa America 2007"". Journal EL MUNDO.
  11. (1 February 2006). "Con nombre propio". ESPN Español.
  12. (14 May 2015). "Copa América 2015: las canciones del torneo desde Perú 2004 hasta hoy".
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