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8 unusual facts about CONMEBOL


1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

The runner-up Mexico qualified in two playoff-matches against the second-placed team of CONMEBOL - Argentina.

2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship qualification

Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.

Estádio Serra Dourada

The stadium was also the neutral ground used by CONMEBOL in the 1981 Copa Libertadores group stage replay match between Flamengo and Atlético Mineiro, in which Flamengo was declared the winner by CONMEBOL, after five Atlético Mineiro players were sent off by referee José Roberto Wright.

Jorge Barraza

Jorge Barraza is an Argentine journalist and chief editor of the CONMEBOL magazine.

Luque

It is one of the most important cities in the metropolitan area, it is the location of the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, most important airport in the country, and the headquarters of CONMEBOL.

Nicolás Leoz

Nicolás Leoz Almirón (born September 10, 1928 in Pirizal, Chaco Paraguayo, Paraguay) was President of CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, South American Football Confederation) between 1986 and 2013.

Rafael Romo

On 6 June 2009, Romo played in the CONMEBOL FIFA SA World Cup qualifier against the Bolivia, the first time Venezuela ever beat Bolivia in La Paz, largely thanks to an excellent performance by Romo, who made many excellent saves and kept a clean sheet.

Toyota Cup

Intercontinental Cup (football), a football competition organised jointly by UEFA and CONMEBOL; known since 1980 to 2004 as the Toyota European/South American Cup for sponsorship reasons.


1978 FIFA World Cup qualification

South America (CONMEBOL): 3 or 4 places, 1 of them went to automatic qualifier Argentina, while the other 3 places were contested by 9 teams.

1981 Torneo Descentralizado

This dubbed regional tournament was contested in this season because the Peru national football team was using domestic players in preparation for the 1982 World Cup Qualifiers.

1982 FIFA World Cup qualification

South America (CONMEBOL): 4 places, one to automatic qualifier Argentina, while the other 3 places were contested by 9 teams.

2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

The fourth edition of the Sudamericano Femenino (Women's South American Championship) in 2003 determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers Brazil and Argentina.

2006 CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship

The 2006 CONMEBOL Beach Soccer championship also known as the 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for (CONMEBOL) was the first beach soccer championship for South America, held in May, in Macaé, Brazil.

2014 Copa Libertadores Femenina

The 2014 Copa Libertadores Femenina will be the sixth edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina, CONMEBOL's premier annual international women's football club tournament.

Alberto Junior Rodríguez

Rodríguez started representing Peru during the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and quickly became a defensive cornerstone for the national side, representing it at the 2007 Copa América in an eventual quarterfinal exit.

Andrew Jennings

Jennings alleged that Ricardo Teixeira, President of Brazil's Football Federation (CBF) and of the 2014 World Cup Organising Committee, Nicolás Léoz of Paraguay, President of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), and Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) all accepted bribes from a television marketing firm.

Clube Atlético Bragantino

In the following year, in 1993, Bragantino competed in the Copa CONMEBOL for the second time.

Copa de Oro

The Copa de Oro (English: Gold Cup, Portuguese: Copa Ouro), or Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz, was a football cup winners' cup competition contested on 3 occasions by the most recent winners of all Conmebol continental competitions.

Copa Oro

Copa de Oro (Spanish: Gold Cup), South American association football competition between the club winners of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Supercopa Sudamericana, the Copa CONMEBOL, and the Supercopa Masters

Futsal Confederations Cup

It is contested by the winners of each of the six confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF) the winner of the world cup and the host country.

History of the Torneo Descentralizado

In addition, the runner-up Sport Boys also qualified to the Copa Libertadores after CONMEBOL expanded the number of berths for each member association from one to two.

Luis Amaranto Perea

He was named national team captain before the 2014 World Cup qualifier against Bolivia in La Paz, in a first-ever win in that country (2–1).

Nicolás Peric

In December 2004 Peric was suspended for six months by the CONMEBOL because he had tested positive for cocaine -he and team members would have drunk coca leaf tea before the game- against Bolívar in La Paz, Bolivia.

Rio Branco Football Club

The club was eliminated in the first round of Copa CONMEBOL, by Deportes Tolima, of Colombia, after losing in the penalty shootout.

Torneo República

The competition was held at the beginning of the year and its purpose was to integrate teams from the Asunción area with teams from other departments in order to give teams from all over the country a chance to qualify for international CONMEBOL tournaments.

World Football Insider

The publication’s growing readership includes: FIFA members, officials from the six confederations (CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA and AFC); organizers of the next three World Cups in Brazil, Russia and Qatar; England's Premier League and other leagues from around the world; football clubs; football agents and consultants; sponsors and sports marketing companies; officials from sports ministries; and national governing bodies.


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