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2004 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Chile
Dates	7 January – 25 January
Teams	10
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Argentina (4th title)
Runners-up	Paraguay
Third place	Brazil
Fourth place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	89 (3.18 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergio Herrera (5 goals)
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The 2004 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament began on 7 January 2004, and is the 12th CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. This was the 4th tournament is open to players under the age of 23 without any other restriction. There is no qualification stage and all 10 member of CONMEBOL automatic qualified. The winner and the runner-up qualified for 2004 Summer Olympics. Players born on or after 1 January 1981 were eligible to play in this competition.

Host nation and venues

On 16 July 2002, during a meeting of the CONMEBOL Executive Committee, Chile was named as the host country of the tournament at the request of the Football Federation of Chile. This decision was ratified a year later, on 7 August 2003. It was the first time that Chile hosted the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.

On 22 August 2003, the Football Federation of Chile proposed five host cities, with Concepción (Group A), La Serena and Coquimbo (both of Group B) as host cities of the first stage matches, while Viña del Mar and Valparaíso would host the final stage matches.

Coquimbo	La Serena	CoquimboLa SerenaConcepciónValparaísoViña del Marclass=notpageimage| Location of host cities
Estadio Municipal Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso	Estadio La Portada
Capacity: 13,000	Capacity: 18,000
Viña del Mar	Valparaíso
Estadio Sausalito	Estadio Playa Ancha
Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 16,000
Concepción
Estadio Municipal de Concepción
Capacity: 32,000

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best top-4 performance
Argentina	10th	Winners (1960, 1964, 1980)
Bolivia	7th	Third place (1987)
Brazil (holders)	12th	Winners (1968, 1971, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1996, 2000)
Chile (hosts)	11th	Runners-up (1984, 2000)
Colombia	12th	Runners-up (1968, 1971, 1980, 1992)
Ecuador	9th	Fourth place (1984, 1992)
Paraguay	8th	Winners (1992)
Peru	11th	Runners-up (1960)
Uruguay	10th	Runners-up (1976)
Venezuela	9th	Fourth place (1980, 1996)

Squads

Groups composition

The groups were composed according to the proposal presented by Reinaldo Sanchez, president of the Football Federation of Chile, on 22 August 2003. The proposal was unanimously approved by the CONMEBOL Executive Committee and the groups were formed as follows:

Group A  Chile  Brazil  Uruguay  Paraguay  Venezuela

Group B  Argentina  Colombia  Ecuador  Bolivia  Peru

Match officials

On 10 December 2003, the CONMEBOL Referee Commission announced 11 referees and 22 assistant referees appointed for the tournament.

Matches

First stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chile	4	3	1	0	10	3	+7	10
Brazil	4	2	2	0	9	2	+7	8
Paraguay	4	2	0	2	7	8	-1	6
Uruguay	4	0	2	2	3	7	-4	2
Venezuela	4	0	1	3	2	11	-9	1

Chile	3 – 0	Uruguay
M.González 5' Soto 33' Villanueva 49'	Report

Brazil	4 – 0	Venezuela
Diego 47' Dagoberto 58' Robinho 83' (pen.) Marcel 89'	Report

Chile	3 – 0	Venezuela
Valdivia 42' Villanueva 54' Luis Figueroa 91'	Report

Brazil	3 – 0	Paraguay
Diego 8' (pen.) Robinho 51' (pen.) Maicon 53'	Report

Brazil	1 – 1	Uruguay
Robinho 41'	Report	Vigneri 37'

Paraguay	3 – 1	Venezuela
J.González 11' (pen.) 43' Giménez 52'	Report	Maldonado 25'

Uruguay	1 – 1	Venezuela
Olivera 61'	Report	Maldonado 2'

Chile	3 – 2	Paraguay
Soto 65' (pen.) Beausejour 75' Leal 83'	Report	Figueredo 41' Torres 70'

Uruguay	1 – 2	Paraguay
García 30'	Report	Díaz 9' Bareiro 85'

Chile	1 – 1	Brazil
Beausejour 63'	Report	Alex 19'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	4	3	1	0	11	5	+6	10
Ecuador	4	3	0	1	10	9	+1	9
Colombia	4	2	0	2	7	6	+1	6
Peru	4	1	1	2	6	9	-3	4
Bolivia	4	0	0	4	5	10	-5	0

Colombia	0 – 1	Ecuador
	Report	Miña 14'

Argentina	0 – 0	Peru
	Report

Argentina	2 – 1	Bolivia
Tevez 46+' Luis González 49'	Report	Arce 16'

Colombia	3 – 1	Peru
Herrera 46+' (pen.), 57', 86'	Report	Guerrero 34'

Ecuador	4 – 2	Peru
Baldeón 9', 16' Salas 58' (pen.) Miña 72'	Report	Alberto Rodríguez 47' Guerrero 82'

Colombia	2 – 0	Bolivia
Herrera 28' Arzuaga 90'	Report

Argentina	5 – 2	Ecuador
Luis González 6' Ferreyra 9', 60' Fernández 22' Delgado 75'	Report	Salas 1' (pen.) Perlaza 50'

Peru	3 – 2	Bolivia
Guerrero 58' Aguirre 66', 68'	Report	Arce 31' Castillo 75'

Argentina	4 – 2	Colombia
Mosquera 14' (o.g.) Luis González 30' Gonzalo Rodríguez 38' Ferreyra 66'	Report	Álvaro Domínguez 21' Herrera 70'

Ecuador	3 – 2	Bolivia
Checa 29' Salas 47' Borja 70'	Report	Ortiz 58' Castillo 65'

Playoffs

Brazil	3 – 0	Colombia
Alex 11' Marcel 46' Dudu 81'	Report

Ecuador	0 – 0	Paraguay
	Report
Penalties
Guagua Miña Valencia Baldeón	2 – 4	Díaz E.Barreto Bareiro Martínez

Final stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
Paraguay	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Brazil	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3
Chile	3	0	1	2	4	7	-3	1

Chile	1 – 2	Paraguay
Millar 62'	Report	Bareiro 80' Figueredo 82'

Argentina	1 – 0	Brazil
G. Rodríguez 77'	Report

Argentina	2 – 1	Paraguay
Figueroa 76', 79'	Report	Achucarro 55'

Chile	1 – 3	Brazil
M. González 30'	Report	Marcel 5' Dudu 51' Diego 55'

Brazil	0 – 1	Paraguay
	Report	Devaca 32'

Chile	2 – 2	Argentina
Bascuñán 5' Beausejour 61'	Report	Figueroa 4' A. Domínguez 38'

Scorers

References

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5. ^ "Reunión de Comité Ejecutivo y Presidentes: Copa Toyota Libertadores 2004 con 36 equipos" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 22 August 2003. Archived from the original on 19 April 2004.
6. "Preolímpico Chile 2004: Inspección de estadios" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 29 September 2003. Archived from the original on 17 May 2004.
7. ^ "Los cinco estadios del Preolímpico" (in Spanish). LaRed21. 7 January 2004.
8. "Se designaron los árbitros del Preolímpico Chile 2004" [Referees for the Pre-Olympic Chile 2024 were designated] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 10 December 2003. Archived from the original on 17 May 2004.

External links

• CONMEBOL

• CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
• International association football competitions hosted by Chile
• 2004 in South American football
• 2004 in Chilean football