Tag: Libertadores Cup

• Saturday, October 26th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

  Brazilian Police do it again: 20 Peñarol fans remanded in Rio

  

  A total of 21 supporters of Uruguayan football club Peñarol were arrested this week in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro before a match with Botafogo and charged with racism, damage, and criminal association. “Nobody justifies criminal behavior, but this was a scandal,” said Peñarol's lawyer and former President Jorge Barrera. Brazil's criminal procedural legislation contemplates “these regrettable but foreseeable results,” he added.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Football player Juan Izquierdo dies at age 27 after collapsing during Copa Libertadores game

  

  The Uruguayan football community is in mourning after the confirmation of the death of Nacional defender Juan Manuel Izquierdo at the age of 27. Izquierdo, who collapsed in the final minutes of the second leg of the Copa Libertadores round of 16 match against São Paulo, did not recover after spending five days in intensive care.

• Saturday, November 4th 2023 - 23:31 UTC

  Fluminense beat Boca Juniors in extra time for first Libertadores Cup title

  

  Substitute John Kennedy gave Fluminense a crucial 2-1 win over Argentina's Boca Juniors on Saturday to secure the Rio de Janeiro club's first Libertadores Cup title in a cliffhanger final at the legendary Maracana stadium.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 07:56 UTC

  Copa Libertadores final moved to Lima from Santiago because of the social unrest in Chile

  

  The Copa Libertadores final between Flamengo and River Plate has been moved to Lima in Peru from Santiago due to the continuing unrest in the Chilean capital, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) announced.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Controversy over Bolsonaro's possible attendance in Chile of the Libertadores Copa final

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, an admirer of Latin America's military dictatorships, courted controversy on Friday when he said he might go to next month's Copa Libertadores final in the Chilean stadium once used as a detention centre.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 02:02 UTC

  Second leg of Libertadores Cup decider set for Dec. 9 in Madrid

  

  The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol)'s disciplinary board Thursday turned down Boca Juniors' request and thus cleared the way for the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final to be played at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu on December 9, it was announced.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Canadian journalist covering G-20 Summit tastes BA crime and justice

  

  Days after the Libertadores Cup fiasco that proved the city's security authorities inability to escort just one bus, Canadian journalist John Kirton was robbed off his belongings Tuesday in downtown Buenos Aires, as he was finalising details for his coverage of the G-20 Summit.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 10:09 UTC

  Maybe it's time for a Gremio/Palmeiras Copa Libertadores final

  

  There is growing consensus among South America's football association governing body Conmebol and sport supporters that the postponed Copa Libertadores final second leg between two of Argentina's most popular teams should be definitiverly cancelled and let the semifinalists dispute the trophy reversing shame.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 10:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires Security Minister takes the fall for Saturday's incidents

  

  Buenos Aires City Security Minister Martín Ocampo Monday resigned his post, thus taking the blame for Saturday's sloppy operation which failed to prevent the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players to River Plate's Monumental stadium from being attacked by hooligans of the home team.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 21:39 UTC

  Dollar climbs in Argentina as Macri worries about football violence

  

  Buenos Aires was still shaking around noon Monday from the weekend's Libertadores Cup fiasco. President Mauricio Macri was publicly addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference escorted by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Germán Garavano. And with the spotlight there, the US dollar crept back up against the Argentine peso after a two-month nadir, closing at AR$ 39.9 per 1 US dollar at the end of the business day.