🇨🇴 James Rodríguez escogido como el mejor jugador de la Copa América. pic.twitter.com/4dZRyx9iQv— Guillermo Arango (@guilloarango) July 15, 2024
I believe yes but tied. Basile won 2 Copas, an Artemio Franchi trophy (finalissima predecessor) and one King Fahd Cup (Confed Cup predecessor). Scaloni has 4 titles now.
A day when I got to watch 2 major continental Championship finals. On the whole I think while I enjoyed watching the Euros more overall, the Copa final was a much better watch than the Euro. Conrats to both Spain and Argentina. Spain were the superior side in the first game, and whilst the second game was much closer it was Argentina who got better as the game went on.
Didn't one of Spain or France win 3 major tournaments in a row ? Congrats to Argentina for pulling off that feat. They stepped their game up because I thought for sure Colombia would win, but they raised their game big time.
LEGENDARY TEAM UNWAVERING GLORY Desde 1978, punto de quiebre en su historia futbolera, Argentina 🇦🇷 es:▪️ La selección que más veces ganó la Copa del Mundo (3)▪️ La que más finales del mundo disputó (5, al igual que Alemania)▪️ La que más veces ganó el Mundial Sub 20 (6)▪️ La que más medallas doradas… pic.twitter.com/sJJVcOmzI8— VarskySports (@VarskySports) July 15, 2024
I would hope the ticketed fans that did not get in received SERIOUS compensation, way above and beyond the cost of their ticket, be it from the primary or secondary market. For all of the failures, at least it did not become another Hillsborough.
Plot twist: Conmebol blames Hard Rock Stadium for apparently ignoring its recommendations. Comunicado CONMEBOL: Final de la CONMEBOL @Copaamerica 2024™— CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) July 15, 2024
"CONMEBOL ESTÁ MUY PREOCUPADA POR LO QUE HA OCURRIDO. YO CREO QUE VAN A PASAR MUCHOS AÑOS PARA QUE VUELVA LA COPA AMÉRICA A ESTADOS UNIDOS"🎙️ @giraltpablo sobre los incidentes en la previa de Argentina y Colombia#PelotaParada pic.twitter.com/oVumnKQJxy— TNT Sports Argentina (@TNTSportsAR) July 15, 2024
Aquí en el estadio circula el rumor que Conmebol intimó a Concacaf (encargada de la seguridad)ayer para que refuerce la seguridad. La respuesta de las autoridades habría sido que estaba todo bajo control y que había gente suficiente! En qué mundo viven? No saben lo q es fútbol?— Martin Liberman (@libermanmartin) July 15, 2024
Yeah, in general soccer crowds tend to enter the stadium more last minute and all at the same time. For American sports and also concerts, arrival of fans is much more dispersed - it's common to have >50% of the crowd arriving after the scheduled game start time. So, just because a stadium hosted many big events before doesn't mean they knew what they were doing in this instance.
Funny you should mention that. I'm not at liberty to share the internal message that Hard Rock Stadium sent out to us staff verbatim... but there are two noteworthy things I can paraphrase: 1. By their own admission, they had no idea what security challenges they were facing with fan disturbances ahead of this Final. Specifically, they used a lot of synonyms for unprecedented. 2. They defended the act of opening the gates at 8 pm and letting everyone in unencumbered as a life-or-death measure to avoid a stampede or crushing outside the gates. Fair enough... but not a peep as to why the decision was made to proceed with the match rather than suspend it.
La federación francesa de fútbol denunciará a Argentina ante FIFA, por un cántico racista publicado en un Instagram live de Enzo Fernández. Decía esto: “Escuchen, rueden la bola, juegan en Francia, pero son todos de Angola. Que lindo es, van a correr, son come trabas, como el…— Cesar Augusto Londoño (@cesaralo) July 16, 2024
What should be a triumphant celebration of Argentina’s success is marred by the players singing a thematically racist song.I say this as a person of Argentine heritage who understands the ramifications of their words beyond the country’s borders…It highlights the deeper…— Nico Cantor (@Nicocantor1) July 16, 2024
Either Conmebol does not know to how type up a contract, or wants to play dumb. Conmebol paid for venue security enforcement. Expected obligations should be stipulated clearly on its signed contract, instead of *recommendations*. Knowing that Conmebol cut expenses in multiple CA areas, then it should not surprise us if it bought a cheap security plan in the first place. Otherwise, Conmebol can sue the venue security provider for breach of contract. Of course, Conmebol won't sue because it got what it paid for.