- Torneio Mercosul
Torneio Mercosul (English: "Mercosur Tournament", Spanish: "Torneo Mercosur") was an international football competition played in 1995 in Santa Catarina state,
Brazil .The competition was considered at the time, by Santa Catarina press, as an embryo of
Copa Mercosur . It was intended to have a second edition of Torneio Mercosul in1996 , but it never happened. The budget of the competition was US$ 400,000.00.CONMEBOL did not recognize this competition.Invited teams
emifinals
tatistics
Overview
The tournament was considered a failure. One of the reasons was that Centertur used a rubber check to pay the accommodations of Olimpia at Hotel Mariner Plaza in
Itajaí . Also, many traditional teams declined to play the tournament, exhausting the competition before it started. The tournament was discontinued and three years later, theCopa Mercosur 's first edition was played.ee also
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Copa Mercosur References
*pt icon [http://www.geocities.com/costeira1/figueirense/ Iª Copa Mercosul 1995]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/mercosul95.html Torneio Mercosul at RSSSF]
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