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In Honor of Tadanari Lee, A History of International Championship Winning Goals

Liverpool fans burned a Fernando Torres jersey on Monday night, furious that the striker their club pried from his hometown team in Madrid for tens of millions of pounds left Merseyside after three-plus seasons for Chelsea's tens of millions of pounds. Torres probably didn't grow up dreaming of playing for the Reds or the...

USA 1, Argentina 2.. 3... 4...

...and that's pretty much the thumping you expect when you throw your second-stringers out against Argentina, but it almost wasn't. Maybe not "almost". But it 2/3rds wasn't? Eddie Johnson drew a ninth minute penalty; Argentina responded with a set piece chip that bobbled around the box until Hernan Crespo slammed it home,...

Copa America Will Be Trial By Fire

The USMNT's plan this summer was always to win the Gold Cup, get a bid to the '09 Confederations Cup, and then throw a bunch of kids and marginal performers to the wolves in the Copa America, hoping that two or three would establish themselves in the cauldron of South America's championship maelstrom. Step one:...

copa america News From the Web

06/01/12 Soccer fans or sex symbols? Source: MSN India - Cricket & Sports We all know that football is a religion in South America.
05/31/12 MessiÂ´s Argentina Look to Pull Away in World Cup... Source: The New York Times - New York NY Messi scored his first and only hat-trick for Argentina in a 3-1 friendly win away to Switzerland in February so pasting over cracks in coach Alejandro SabellaÂ´s defence.

Background on copa america

The Copa América (Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese for "America Cup")—previously known as South American Championship—is an international association football competition contested between the men's national teams of CONMEBOL, the sport's continental governing body.

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