0 Copa America 2011: Final Preview Paraguay vs Uruguay

Uruguay will have to overcome Paraguay in the Copa America final to lift their 15th Copa America title in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday. If Uruguay win the title they will set record of highest Copa America titles than any other country. Current Uruguay and Argentina stand at 14 Copa America titles apiece.

Champion to represent South America in Confederations Cup
The champion will automatically earn a place to represent South America in Confederations Cup. For Uruguay this will be a series of success after finishing fourth on 2010 World Cup despite controversial hand ball by Luiz Suarez with prevented Ghana to the first African nation to reach World cup semi-final.

Paraguay and penalty shoot-out
Uruguay (La Celeste) have had several wins to reach at this surprise Copa America final but Paraguay have done enough in the play time and progress after penalty shoot-out. Many football fans are in favour of Uruguay to win during play time and Paraguay if the final have to be decided by penalty shoot-out. Paraguay have played 240 minutes in two consecutive games and might be a bit tied compared to their opponents but this could also give them more confident.

Paraguay road to Copa America final
Paraguay have reached final stage without a win in 90 min in group stage or 120 min in knock-out stage, 0-0 draw with Ecuador, 2-2 against Brazil, 3-3 against Venezuela. In knock-out stage they drew 0-0 (0-2 pen) against Brazil and 0-0 (5-3 pen) against Venezuela.

Uruguay road to Copa America final
Uruguay scored 6 goals (3 in group stage and three in knock-out stage) and concedes only two. Winning two and draw two game so far, on the way they drew 1-1 with Peru and Chile, beat Mexico 1-0 before a 1-1 drew with Argentina and entred the final with a convincing 2-0 win victory over Chile.

Paraguay have to be careful with the like of Diego Forlan on set pieces Luiz Suarez ability to shake of defenders, going for ball punched by opponent goalkeeper, Paraguay will have to be on their top form today to reach penalty shoot-out stage.

Top scorer of the tournament

Luiz Suarez and Sergio Aguero are all at three goals mark in the race for tournament top scorer award. Suarez playing alone Diego Forlan, the adidas World Cup’s Golden Ball winner have a high chance to scorer and avoid sharing the award with mmmmmm. The Liverpool player scored all three goals against Peru, one in group stage and two goals in the semi-final. Alvaro Pereira also had a chance to share the top scorer award if he score on Sunday has he his currently at 2 goals mark but only if Luiiz Suarez fail to scorer. Paraguay will rely on Manchester City striker, Roque Santa Cruz who despite being quite in this tournament he can be as bad to Uruaguay lika any other top striker.

All that said, this Copa America edition like many others, have had a lot of surprise and Paraguay can not be completely ruled out. Uruguay have to really fight to earn their 15th Copa America title.

The following awards will be presented on Sunday at the end of the game medal to the runners up, Golden Ball (best tournament player), Golden Boot (top scorer),. And the following awards by tournament sponsors Best Young Player of the Tournament Best Goalkeeper , Top Scorer of the Tournament , Player of the Copa, medals to the referees of the final match, Fair Play Trophy to the winning selection, medal with a replica of the Copa America and finally the Copa America trophy.

0 Uruguay beat Paraguay 3-0 to win their 15th Copa America title

Uruguay have been crowned kings of Copa America after successful winning their 15th Copa America title. Currently Uruguay is the most successful national team in Copa America history. They have been progressive improving after finishing fourth in 2010 world cup. Before the final game, Uruguay tied with Argentina both with 14 South American championship titles, other countries are way behind to reach this Copa America record. Uruguay as champions, will represent South America in Confederations Cup.

Luiz Suarez was on score sheet again today to add his goal tally to 4 but he didn't score enough to equal Paolo Guerrero 5 goals. José Paolo Guerrero who secured a top scorer of the tournament Golden boot award after hat-trick he bagged against Venezuela. Luiz Suarez achievement was rewarded by being selected the best player of the tournament, Golden ball award.

Copa America Top scorers
José Paolo Guerrero	Peru	5
Luis Suárez	Uruguay	4
Sergio Agüero	Argentina	3
Álvaro Pereira	Uruguay	2
Radamel Falcao Garcia	Colombia	2
Alexandre Pato	Brazil	2
Neymar Santos	Brazil	2
Felipe Caicedo	Ecuador	2

Diego Forlan, 2010 world cup best player; scored two goals in the final have added a rare superb piece in history of Uruguay and Copa America. He said "This title means a lot to me because my grandfather won, my father won and now I won. Three generations who led this tournament, Forlan will be the last name in the history"
Uruguay 1-0 Paraguay (Suarez, 12 min)
Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay (Forlan, 42 min)
Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay (Forlan, 90 min)

Tournament awards
Paolo Guerrero is the top scorer Santander 2011 Copa America

Luis Suarez is the Best Player LG Copa America 2011

Sebastian Coates receives the Trophy Claro - Best Young Player of the Copa America

Justo Villar is the best goalkeeper Petrobras of the Copa America

Pictures credit to Copa America website
Final Teams
Uruguay: Muslera; Maxi Pereira, Luganno, Coates, Caceres; Gonzalez, Perez, Arevalo Riosm, Alvaro Pereira; Forlan, Suarez. Subs: Castillo, Silva, Godin, Gargano, Rodriguez, Eguren, Lodeiro, Abreu, Hernandez, Scotti, Cavani.

Paraguay: Villar; Piris, Da Silva, Veron, Marecos; Riveros, Ortigoza, Caceres, Vera; Valdez, Zeballos. Subs: Diego Barreto, Fernandez, Alcaraz, Caceres, Edgar Barreto, Martinez, Barrios, Estigarribia, Perez.

Copa America Champion and runner-up since 1916

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score	Host Country
2011	Uruguay	Paraguay	3-0	Argentina
2007	Brazil	Argentina	3-0	Venezuela
2004	Brazil	Argentina	2-2   (4-2)	Peru
2001	Colombia	Mexico	1-0	Colombia
1999	Brazil	Uruguay	3-0	Paraguay
1997	Brazil	Bolivia	3-1	Bolivia
1995	Uruguay	Brazil	1-1  (5-3)	Uruguay
1993	Argentina	Mexico	2-1	Ecuador
1991	Argentina	Brazil	2-0	Chile
1989	Brazil	Uruguay	1-0	Brazil
1987	Uruguay	Chile	1-0	Argentina
1983	Uruguay	Brazil	1-1 (2-0)	Home, Away
1979	Paraguay	Chile	3-0  (0-0)	Home, Away
1975	Peru	Colombia	1-0	Home, Away
1967	Uruguay	Argentina	1-0	Uruguay
1963	Bolivia	Paraguay	2-0	Bolivia
1959*	Uruguay	Argentina	5-0	Ecuador
1959	Argentina	Brazil	1-1	Argentina
1957	Argentina	Brazil	3-0	Peru
1956	Uruguay	Chile	2-1	Uruguay
1955	Argentina	Chile	1-0	Chile
1953	Paraguay	Brazil	3-2	Peru
1949	Brazil	Paraguay	7-0	Brazil
1947	Argentina	Paraguay	6-0	Ecuador
1946	Argentina	Brazil	2-0	Argentina
1945	Argentina	Brazil	3-1	Chile
1942	Uruguay	Argentina	1-0	Uruguay
1941	Argentina	Uruguay	1-0	Chile
1939	Peru	Uruguay	2-1	Peru
1937	Argentina	Brazil	2-0	Argentina
1935	Uruguay	Argentina	3-0	Peru
1929	Argentina	Paraguay	4-1	Argentina
1927	Argentina	Uruguay	3-2	Peru
1926	Uruguay	Argentina	2-0	Chile
1925	Argentina	Brazil	2-2	Argentina
1924	Uruguay	Argentina	0-0	Uruguay
1923	Uruguay	Argentina	2-0	Uruguay
1922	Brazil	Paraguay	3-0	Brazil
1921	Argentina	Brazil	1-0	Argentina
1920	Uruguay	Argentina	1-1	Chile
1919	Brazil	Uruguay	1-0	Brazil
1917	Uruguay	Argentina	1-0	Uruguay
1916	Uruguay	Argentina	1-1	Argentina

0 Copa America: History overview, Argentina and Uruguay 14 titles apiece, Brazil 8.

To-date Copa America has had 43 editions and 44th edition is still ongoing in Argentina. It started in 1916 and thus the oldest championship in the world. Since its inauguration in 1916, Six nations have won the Copa America cup with Argentina and Uruguay lead with 14 titles each, Brazil (8), Paraguai (2), Peru (2), Bolívia (1) and Colombia (1).

Copa America top scorers
Since 1916, 55 top scorers emerged as in some editions has top scorers tied in number of goals. 1983 had record number of top scorers tied, 4 players; Roberto Dinamite (Brazil), Carlos Aguilera (Uruguay), Jorge Burruchaga (Argentina) and Eduardo Malásquez (Peru) each scored 4 goals.

Record number of goals score is held by three players in 1949 Jair Rosa Pinto (Brazil) scored 9 goals and 1957 two player tied Javier Ambrois (Uruguay)and Humberto Maschio (Argentina) each score 9. Next to the list is Pele who scored 8 goals in 1959 but Brazil did not win the title and Copa America became the only trphy missing in Pele's trophy cabinet.1955 Rodolfo Micheli (Argentina) and 1953 Francisco Molina (Chile) both bagged 8 goals.

In the current Copa America edition, Sergio Aguero (Argentina) and Luis Suárez (Uruguay) lead the top scorer list with 3 goals each. Sergio Aguero was among top 10 scoers in Europen league competitions last season. Argentina failed to progress, Luis Suárez have a bigger chance to be top scorer if he score in the final. If Luis Suárez failed to scorer the top scorer award will again be shared and there is a possibility of another player to join the 3 goals scorer list.

Lionel Messi have had tremedous perfomance at Barcelona but once again fail to show fans expected at national team. Despite creating several chance for his team, only few were converted and the blam fall back to him.

0 Updated FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking top ten ranking Jul 2011: World, CAF and UEFA

New FIFA Cocacola ranking countries soccer rankings have been released for Jul 2011. Previous FIFA ranking was released on Jun 29th 2011. The top three is unchanged still dominated by Spain, Nertheland and Germany, despite both three lossing more than 100 points. The two world cup finalist still lead the ranking. One change in top ten contries, as Uruguay move to top 10, Mexico drop to 20th position from 9th. Uruguay having drop 185 point in previous ranking they have gain 247 points and move to 5th from 18th position after winning the 15th Copa America cup, this being their best ever position. 88 matches taken into account most from Copa America, which saw most of Copa America participant move places above. The next FIFA cocacola ranking will be on 24th Aug 2011.

FIFA COCACOLA WORLD RANKING JUL 2011
No	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
1	Spain	1588	0		-283
2	Netherlands	1542	0		-119
3	Germany	1305	0		-112
4	Brazil	1202	1		72
5	Uruguay	1156	13		247
6	England	1146	-2		0
7	Portugal	1076	0		30
8	Italy	1059	-2		0
9	Croatia	1033	-1		0
10	Argentina	1013	0		34

FIFA RANKING FOR UEFA - EUROPE NATIONAL TEAMS
Among top ten countries in FIFA cocacola ranking world wide, Seven teams are from UEFA countries, three team that add the list of top ten UEFA countries according to FIFA ranking are Norway, Greece and France and there have been very little movement in UEFA TOP 10.

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR UEFA COUNTRIES JUL 2011
UEFA Ranking	World Ranking	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
1	1	Spain	1588	0		-283
2	2	Netherlands	1542	0		-119
3	3	Germany	1305	0		-112
6	4	England	1146	-2		0
7	5	Portugal	1076	0		30
8	6	Italy	1059	-2		0
9	7	Croatia	1033	-1		0
12	8	Norway	972	-1		0
13	9	Greece	959	-1		0
15	10	France	920	0		0

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR CAF-AFRICA NATIONAL TEAMS
Côte d'Ivoire leads the CAF - Africa countries, but 14th in FIFA world ranking. Top ten FIFA cocacola - CAF countries ranking is unchanged.

FIFA COCACOLA RANKING FOR CAF-AFRICA COUNTRIES
CAF ranking	World ranking	Country	Points	Position change		Points difference
14	1	Côte d'Ivoire	922	0		0
34	2	Egypt	735	0		8
36	3	Ghana	696	-3		-39
39	4	Burkina Faso	661	-2		0
43	5	Nigeria	635	-2		0
46	6	Senegal	619	-3		0
49	7	South Africa	597	-2		0
50	8	Cameroon	595	-2		0
52	9	Algeria	575	-1		0
55	10	Tunisia	553	2		26