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2007 Copa América

Copa América Venezuela 2007
Copa América 2007 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Venezuela
Dates	26 June – 15 July
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (8th title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Uruguay
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	86 (3.31 per match)
Attendance	1,050,230 (40,393 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Robinho (6 goals)
Best player(s)	Robinho
Best young player	Lionel Messi
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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.

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil (holders)
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Ecuador
•  Mexico (invitee)
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  United States (invitee)
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela (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.

Maturín	Barquisimeto	Mérida	Ciudad Guayana
Estadio Monumental de Maturín	Estadio Metropolitano de Lara	Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida	Estadio Polideportivo Cachamay
Capacity: 52,000	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 41,600
Maracaibo	BarinasBarquisimetoCaracasMaracaiboMaturínMéridaPuerto la CruzCiudad GuayanaSan Cristóbalclass=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2007 Copa America.
Estadio José Pachencho Romero
Capacity: 40,000
San Cristóbal	Puerto la Cruz	Barinas	Caracas
Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo	Estadio Olímpico Luis Ramos	Estadio Agustín Tovar	Estadio Olímpico de la UCV
Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 38,000	Capacity: 27,500	Capacity: 24,900

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.

• Carlos Chandía
• Sergio Pezzotta
• René Ortubé
• Carlos Simon
• Óscar Ruiz
• Mauricio Reinoso
• Armando Archundia
• Carlos Amarilla
• Carlos Torres
• Víctor Rivera
• Jorge Larrionda
• Baldomero Toledo
• Manuel Andarcia

Draw

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

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Venezuela (hosts)  Argentina  Brazil	Ecuador  Paraguay  Uruguay	Chile  Colombia  Peru	Bolivia  Mexico (invitee)  United States (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

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

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

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Venezuela	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Peru	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Uruguay	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
Bolivia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2

Uruguay	0–3	Peru
	Report	Villalta 27' Mariño 70' Guerrero 88'

Venezuela	2–2	Bolivia
Maldonado 20' Páez 55'	Report	Moreno 38' Arce 84'

Bolivia	0–1	Uruguay
	Report	Sánchez 58'

Venezuela	2–0	Peru
Cichero 48' Arismendi 79'	Report

Peru	2–2	Bolivia
Pizarro 34', 85'	Report	Moreno 24' Campos 45'

Venezuela	0–0	Uruguay
	Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Brazil	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Chile	3	1	1	1	3	5	−2	4
Ecuador	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0

Ecuador	2–3	Chile
Valencia 16' Benítez 23'	Report	Suazo 20', 80' Villanueva 86'

Brazil	0–2	Mexico
	Report	Castillo 23' Morales 28'

Brazil	3–0	Chile
Robinho 36' (pen.), 84', 87'	Report

Mexico	2–1	Ecuador
Castillo 21' Bravo 79'	Report	Méndez 84'

Mexico	0–0	Chile
	Report

Brazil	1–0	Ecuador
Robinho 56' (pen.)	Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Argentina	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6	9
Paraguay	3	2	0	1	8	2	+6	6
Colombia	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3
United States	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Paraguay	5–0	Colombia
Santa Cruz 30', 46', 80' Cabañas 84', 88'	Report

Argentina	4–1	United States
Crespo 11', 60' Aimar 76' Tevez 84'	Report	Johnson 9' (pen.)

United States	1–3	Paraguay
Clark 35'	Report	Barreto 29' Cardozo 56' Cabañas 90+2'

Argentina	4–2	Colombia
Crespo 20' (pen.) Riquelme 34', 45' D. Milito 90+1'	Report	E. Perea 10' Castrillón 76'

Colombia	1–0	United States
Castrillón 15'	Report

Argentina	1–0	Paraguay
Mascherano 79'	Report

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.

Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
B	Chile	3	1	1	1	3	5	−2	4
A	Uruguay	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
C	Colombia	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	7 July – San Cristóbal
	Venezuela	1
					10 July – Maracaibo
	Uruguay	4
					Uruguay	2 (4)
	7 July – Puerto la Cruz
					Brazil (p)	2 (5)
	Chile	1
									15 July – Maracaibo
	Brazil	6
									Brazil	3
	8 July – Maturín
									Argentina	0
	Mexico	6
					11 July – Ciudad Guayana
	Paraguay	0
					Mexico	0
	8 July – Barquisimeto
					Argentina	3			Third place
	Argentina	4
									14 July – Caracas
	Peru	0
									Uruguay	1
									Mexico	3

Quarter-finals

Venezuela	1–4	Uruguay
Arango 41'	Report	Forlán 38', 90+1' García 64' Rodríguez 86'

Chile	1–6	Brazil
Suazo 76'	Report	Juan 16' Baptista 23' Robinho 27', 50' Josué 68' Vágner Love 85'

Mexico	6–0	Paraguay
Castillo 5' (pen.), 38' Torrado 27' Arce 79' Blanco 87' (pen.) Bravo 90+1'	Report

Argentina	4–0	Peru
Riquelme 47', 85' Messi 61' Mascherano 75'	Report

Semi-finals

Uruguay	2–2	Brazil
Forlán 36' Abreu 69'	Report	Maicon 13' Baptista 41'
Penalties
Forlán Scotti González C. Rodríguez Abreu García Lugano	4–5	Robinho Juan Gilberto Silva A. Alves Diego Fernando Gilberto

Mexico	0–3	Argentina
	Report	Heinze 45' Messi 61' Riquelme 65' (pen.)

Third-place match

Uruguay	1–3	Mexico
Abreu 22'	Report	Blanco 36' (pen.) Bravo 68' Guardado 76'

Final

Brazil	3–0	Argentina
Baptista 4' Ayala 40' (o.g.) Dani Alves 69'	Report

Result

2007 Copa América Champions
Brazil 8th title

Awards

• Top Goalscorer : Robinho Archived 3 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• Most Valuable Player : Robinho Robinho disputará a Messi y Riquelme la Copa América y el MVP del torneo
• Best Goal : Lionel Messi

Goalscorers

With six goals, Robinho was the top scorer in the tournament. There were 86 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 3.31 goals per match.

6 goals

• Robinho

5 goals

• Juan Román Riquelme

4 goals

• Nery Castillo

3 goals

• Hernán Crespo
• Júlio Baptista
• Humberto Suazo
• Omar Bravo
• Salvador Cabañas
• Roque Santa Cruz
• Diego Forlán

2 goals

• Javier Mascherano
• Lionel Messi
• Jaime Moreno
• Jaime Castrillón
• Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Claudio Pizarro
• Sebastián Abreu

1 goal

• 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

1 own goal

• Roberto Ayala (against Brazil)

Team of the Tournament

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Eff
1	Brazil	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	13	72.2%
2	Argentina	6	5	0	1	16	6	+10	15	83.3%
3	Mexico	6	4	1	1	13	5	+8	13	72.2%
4	Uruguay	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8	44.4%
Eliminated in the quarterfinals
5	Paraguay	4	2	0	2	8	8	0	6	50.0%
6	Venezuela	4	1	2	1	5	6	−1	5	41.6%
7	Peru	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	4	33.3%
8	Chile	4	1	1	2	4	11	−7	4	33.3%
Eliminated in the first round
9	Colombia	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3	33.3%
10	Bolivia	3	0	2	1	4	5	−1	2	22.2%
11	Ecuador	3	0	0	3	3	6	−3	0	0.0%
12	United States	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0	0.0%

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

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

1. "Copa América Best Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
2. "Brazil victorious in Copa America". BBC Sport. 16 July 2007. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
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 FIFA.com – 2005/2006 season: final worldwide matchday to be 14 May 2006.
4. Mexico and the 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. "Postergan sorteo de la Copa América 2007". Los Tiempos. 4 October 2006. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
6. "Estados Unidos y México tomarán parte en la Copa América 2007". Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol. 29 May 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
7. "Conmebol definió por sorteo grupos de la Copa América Venezuela 2007" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
8. "Sorteo de grupos Copa América Venezuela 2007" – via www.youtube.com.
9. "El Once Ideal de la Copa América" [The Ideal Eleven of the Copa América]. La República (in Spanish). 16 July 2007. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
10. "Sketch winner of the "Pet Copa America 2007"". Journal EL MUNDO. 29 June 2006. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
11. "Con nombre propio". ESPN Español. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
12. "Copa América 2015: las canciones del torneo desde Perú 2004 hasta hoy". Depor. 14 May 2015.

External links

• Copa América 2007 Website – official website
• Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol – official website
• FuriaVinotinto – Unofficial Forum
• Copa América 2007 at ESPN Archived 20 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine

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