MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- A decision to play the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors in Madrid is "irreversible", the head of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Saturday. The comments came just hours after River Plate...
Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil and Italy have all offered to stage the match. The fixture was billed as the biggest club game in the history of Argentine football, marking the first time that the country's two biggest teams have met in the final of the Copa Libertadores, South America's equiva...
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Millions of people will be hanging on every twist and turn of the Libertadores final, with plenty of potential for scandal. The last Copa game to feature the two teams failed even to reach 90 minutes: in 2015, the last-16 tie was abandoned and severa...
6 -- River Plate goalkeeper Franco Armani said Tuesday that his team will not dwell on the absence of captain Leonardo Ponzio and coach Marcelo Gallardo in the Copa Libertadores final against Boca Juniors. Gallardo was suspended for four matches for entering his team's dressing room at halftime...
Perrone made seven appearances in the league but has also been an ever-present in theLibertadores, even netting a last-minute winner against Nacional. The prodigious deep-lying midfielder heads up a very interesting cohort of Velez academy products breaking through such asValentin Gomez(18),Julian...
In last year's final, River struck two extra-time goals in the decisive leg to beat Boca 5-3 on aggregate. That victory gave them their fourth Libertadores title and second in four years. Flamengo, meanwhile, have not featured in the competition's showpiece fixture since 1981, when their ...
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez promised that security would be tight for the fixture. "Spain is ready to organize the final of the Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors and River Plate," Sanchez said in a Twitter post. "The security forces have extensive experience of these situations and...
MADRID, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Juan Fernando Quintero and Gonzalo Martinez scored in extra time as River Plate secured their fourth Copa Libertadores title with a dramatic 3-1 victory over River Plate in the second leg of the final here on Sunday. ...
The first leg of the final will be played at Gremio Arena on November 22 and the decisive return fixture is slated for Buenos Aires a week later. Gremio are bidding for their third Copa Libertadores title and first since 1995 while Lanus will be making their first appearance in a final....