Mexico's Official Copa America 2007 Thread: Official news

[LMvCP]

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This thread is meant for official news regarding the draw, official rosters, schedule, and/or FMF, FVF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOl, etc statements.

There will be another thread dedicated to unofficial news dedicated to player statements, coaches statements, roster analysis, leading opinions, and articles provided by reknown Mexican and International media outlets.

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[LMvCP]

Este miércoles 14 por la noche se realizó en Caracas, capital de Venezuela, el sorteo de los grupos de la primera fase del torneo. Al acto asistieron las más alas autoridades del fútbol del continente así como del Gobierno Venezolano, destacando la presencia de Hugo Chávez, presidente de la República.

La ceremonia estuvo dirigida por Eduardo Deluca, secretario general de la CONMEBOL. Asimismo, pronunciaron discursos el Dr. Nicolás Leoz, presidente de la Confederación Sudamericana, Rafael Esquivel, titular de la Federación Venezolana, y el propio presidente Chávez.

Así quedaron conformados los grupos de la primera fase:

GRUPO A Venezuela, Uruguay, Perú y Bolivia

GRUPO B Brasil, Ecuador, Chile y México

GRUPO C Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia y Estados Unidos

http://www.conmebol.com/articulos_ver.jsp?id=60247&slangab=S

[mexicano]

Our first game is against the Brazilians. Most likely they'll send a B or C team. Anyways, knowing them, they should still be dangerous.

[Perndog2006]

26-jun-07:
Venezuela - Bolivia (San Cristóbal)
Uruguay - Perú (Mérida)

27-jun-07:
Ecuador - Chile (Puerto Ordaz)
Brasil - México (Puerto Ordaz)

28-jun-07:
Paraguay - Colombia (Maracaibo)
Argentina - Estados Unidos (Maracaibo)

30-jun-07:
Bolivia - Uruguay (San Cristóbal)
Venezuela - Perú (San Cristóbal)

1-jul-07:
México - Ecuador (Maturín)
Brasil - Chile (Maturín)

El ex astro brasileño Careca (ida.) y el venezolano Luis Mendoza, considerado el mejor de todos los tiempos del país petrolero, fueron las figuras que extrajeron las bolillas en el sorteo.
Foto: EFE/Chico Sánchez.

2-jul-07:
Estados Unidos - Paraguay (Barinas)
Argentina - Colombia (Maracaibo)

3-jul-07:
Perú - Bolivia (Mérida)
Venezuela- Uruguay (Mérida)

4-jul-07:
México - Chile (Puerto La Cruz)
Brasil- Ecuador (Puerto La Cruz)

5-jul-07:
Colombia - Estados Unidos (Barquisimento)
Argentina - Paraguay (Barquisimento)

[metalmaster]

Wich is tougher, group B or C?

And does anyone know what was Hugo complaining about?

[Hugo Sanchez]

Keep this thread clean. No Trolling.

This thread is meant for official news regarding the draw, official rosters, schedule, and/or FMF, FVF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOl, etc statements.

There will be another thread dedicated to unofficial news dedicated to player statements, coaches statements, roster analysis, leading opinions, and articles provided by reknown Mexican and International media outlets.

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[Manoro3]

I see the host Venezuela sure got a cozy group for themselves. Random draw my ass.

I'm not sure whether group B or C is tougher. Normally I would have thought Ecuador was a push-over, like at the last Copa América, but they played really well at the mundial. If that's a good indicator of where the team is at right now, then group B is the group of death, easily.

Colombia didn't make it into the mundial and Paraguay stunk it up, so unless their previous coaches were terrible, o ha surgido una camada tremenda desde el mundial, that leaves group D looking fairly average.

[NoRightFoot]

They haven't been friendly to Mexico although on paper it might look easier. From an outsiders point of view I think Uruguay got the best of it. The Americans did pretty well but have buckleys against Argentina..

[NachoNation]

I think we've got arguably the toughest group. Colombia may be underperforming lately, but I thought that was just the u23 or u21. That said, they beat us with a mostly youth squad at the gold cup. They also barely missed out on the cup to Ecuador, who is another team in our group. Ecuador impressed me at the cup. I think they run a game that is largely built on pace and that can give us problems sometimes. To round out the group, we've drawn brazil too.

Two WC teams and one that was next in line.