1999 Copa América

1999 Copa América

Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
Dates	June 29 - July 18
Teams	12 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (6th title)
Runners-up	Uruguay
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	74 (2.85 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ronaldo (5) Rivaldo (5)
Best player	Rivaldo
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The 1999 Copa América was a football tournament held in Paraguay, from June 29 to July 18, 1999. It was organised by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body.

There is no qualifying for the final tournament. All South American countries (10 countries) participate, along with two more invited countries Japan (from AFC) and Mexico (from CONCACAF), making a total of twelve teams competing in the tournament. Japan became the first non-American team to participate. Uruguay attended with a youth team.

Competing nations

As with previous tournaments, all ten members of CONMEBOL participated in the competition. In order to bring the number of competing teams to twelve, CONMEBOL invited Mexico from the CONCACAF and Japan from the AFC, this was the fourth time Mexico accepted the invitation and Japan's first time in the tournament.

Argentina  Bolivia  Brazil (holders)  Chile

Colombia  Ecuador  Japan (invitee)  Mexico (invitee)

Paraguay (hosts)  Peru  Uruguay  Venezuela

Venues

A total of four host cities hosted the tournament. The opening and final game were hosted by Estadio Defensores del Chaco.

Asunción	Pedro Juan Caballero Asunción Luque Ciudad del Este	Asunción
Estadio Defensores del Chaco		Estadio General Pablo Rojas
Capacity: 36,000		Capacity: 32,910
Luque		Pedro Juan Caballero
Estadio Feliciano Cáceres		Monumental Río Parapití
Capacity: 25,000		Capacity: 30,000
Ciudad del Este
Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi
Capacity: 28,000

Squads

For a complete list of participating squads see: Copa América 1999 squads

Venue selection

Paraguay was chosen to be the venue by defeating Colombia by seven votes to three

First round

The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each. The formation of the groups was made by CONMEBOL, in a public drawing of lots.

Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three (3) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.

First and second placed teams, in each group, advance to the quarter-finals. The best third placed team and the second best third placed team, also advance to the quarter-finals.

• Tie-breaker
  • If teams finish leveled on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
  1. greater goal difference in all group games;
  2. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
  3. winner of the head-to-head match between the teams in question;
  4. drawing of lots.

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Paraguay	7	3	2	1	0	5	0
Peru	6	3	2	0	1	4	3
Bolivia	2	3	0	2	1	1	2
Japan	1	3	0	1	2	3	8

June 29, 1999	Paraguay	0 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Byron Moreno (Ecuador)

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June 29, 1999	Peru	3 – 2	Japan	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Mario Sánchez (Chile)
	Soto  70' Holsen  74', 81'		Lopes  6' Miura  77'

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July 2, 1999	Paraguay	4 – 0	Japan	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	Benítez  18', 62' Santa Cruz  40', 86'

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July 2, 1999	Peru	1 – 0	Bolivia	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Luis Solórzano (Venezuela)
	Zúniga  87'  90'

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July 5, 1999	Bolivia	1 – 1	Japan	Monumental Rio Parapiti, Pedro Juan Caballero Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	E. Sánchez  18' O. Sánchez  44'		Lopes  75' (pen.) Ihara  82'

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July 5, 1999	Paraguay	1 – 0	Peru	Monumental Río Parapití, Pedro Juan Caballero Referee: Byron Moreno (Ecuador)
	Santa Cruz  88'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Brazil	9	3	3	0	0	10	1
Mexico	6	3	2	0	1	5	3
Chile	3	3	1	0	2	3	2
Venezuela	0	3	0	0	3	1	13

June 30, 1999	Brazil	7 – 0	Venezuela	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Bonifacio Núñez (Paraguay)
	Ronaldo  28', 62' Emerson  40' Amoroso  54', 81' Ronaldinho  74' Rivaldo  82'

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June 30, 1999	Chile	0 – 1	Mexico	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
			Hernández  59'

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July 3, 1999	Brazil	2 – 1	Mexico	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
	Amoroso  20' Alex  45'		Terrazas  74'

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July 3, 1999	Chile	3 – 0	Venezuela	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Juan Luna (Bolivia)
	Zamorano  5' Estay  21' Tortolero  66' (o.g.) Vargas  39' Salas  69'		Alvarez  18'

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July 6, 1999	Brazil	1 – 0	Chile	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
	Ronaldo  36' (pen.)

• Suspended at 85th minute because of fog

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	Mexico	3 – 1	Venezuela	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Bonifacio Núñez (Paraguay)
	Blanco  21', 39'  84' Osorno  29'		Urdaneta  72'

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Colombia	9	3	3	0	0	6	1
Argentina	6	3	2	0	1	5	4
Uruguay	3	3	1	0	2	2	4
Ecuador	0	3	0	0	3	3	7

July 1, 1999	Argentina	3 – 1	Ecuador	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Gilberto Hidalgo (Perú)
	Simeone  12' Palermo  55', 61'		Kaviedes  77'

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July 1, 1999	Uruguay	0 – 1	Colombia	Estadio General Pablo Rojas, Asunción Referee: Wilson de Souza (Brazil)
	López  67' Magallanes  90'		Bonilla  20'

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July 4, 1999	Argentina	0 – 3	Colombia	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Zanetti  69'		Córdoba  10' (pen.) Congo  79' Montaño  87'

• In this match Martín Palermo missed 3 penalties, one was saved by Miguel Calero

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July 4, 1999	Uruguay	2 – 1	Ecuador	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Mario Sánchez (Chile)
	Zalayeta  72', 74'		Kaviedes  78'

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July 7, 1999	Uruguay	0 – 2	Argentina	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Masayoshi Okada (Japan)
			Kily González  1' Palermo  56' Vivas  73'

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July 7, 1999	Colombia	2 – 1	Ecuador	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Gilberto Hidalgo (Perú)
	Morantes  37' Ricard  39'		Graziani  50'

Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA B  Chile 3 3 1 0 2 3 2 C  Uruguay 3 3 1 0 2 2 4 A  Bolivia 2 3 0 2 1 1 2

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	July 10 - Asunción
	Mexico	3 (4)
					July 14 - Ciudad del Este
	Peru	3 (2)
					Mexico	0
	July 11 - Ciudad del Este
					Brazil	2
	Brazil	2
									July 18 - Asunción
	Argentina	1
									Brazil	3
	July 10 - Asunción
									Uruguay	0
	Uruguay	1 (5)
					July 13 - Asunción
	Paraguay	1 (3)
					Uruguay	1 (5)			Third Place
	July 11 - Luque
					Chile	1 (3)
	Chile	3							Mexico	2
	Colombia	2							Chile	1
									July 17 - Asunción

Quarter-finals

July 10, 1999	Mexico	3 – 3	Peru	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Wilson de Souza (Brazil)
	Hernández  28', 33' (pen.) Torrado  87'		Palacios  6' Pereda  15' Solano  40'
		Penalties
	Suárez Terrazas García Zepeda	4 – 2	Solano Jorge Soto José Soto Reynoso

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July 10, 1999	Uruguay	1 – 1	Paraguay	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)
	Zalayeta  65'		Benítez  15'
		Penalties
	Fleurquín Guigou Alonso Zalayeta Magallanes	5 – 3	Acuña Gamarra Enciso Benítez

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July 11, 1999	Chile	3 – 2	Colombia	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)
	Reyes  25', 50' Zamorano  65'		Bolaño  7' Bonilla  35'

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July 11, 1999	Brazil	2 – 1	Argentina	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Gustavo Méndez (Uruguay)
	Rivaldo  32' Ronaldo  48'		Sorín  10'

Semi-finals

July 13, 1999	Uruguay	1 – 1	Chile	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
	Lembo  22'		Zamorano  73'
		Penalties
	Del Campo Guigou Alonso Zalayeta Magallanes	5 – 3	Vargas Aros Pizarro Reyes

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July 14, 1999	Brazil	2 – 0	Mexico	Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi, Ciudad del Este Referee: Byron Moreno (Ecuador)
	Amoroso  24' Rivaldo  42'

Third-place match

July 17, 1999	Chile	1 – 2	Mexico	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
	Palacios  81'		Palencia  26' Zepeda  87'

Final

Main article: 1999 Copa América Final

July 18, 1999	Brazil	3 – 0	Uruguay	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción Referee: Oscar Julián Ruiz (Colombia)
	Rivaldo  20', 27' Ronaldo  46'

Result

Copa América 1999 Winners
Brazil Sixth title

Goal scorers

5 Goals Ronaldo Rivaldo 4 Goals Márcio Amoroso 3 Goals Palermo Zamorano Hernández Benítez Roque Santa Cruz Zalayeta 2 Goals Reyes Bonilla Kaviedes Lopes Blanco Roberto Holsen

1 Goal Kily González Simeone Sorín Sánchez Alex Emerson Ronaldinho Silva Estay Palacios Bolaño Congo Córdoba Montaño Morantes Ricard

Graziani Miura Osorno Palencia Terrazas Torrado Zepeda Palacios Pereda Solano Jorge Soto Zúñiga Lembo Urdaneta Own Goals Tortolero

Statistics

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Eff
Brazil	18	6	6	0	0	17	2	+15	100.0%
Mexico	10	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1	55.6%
Colombia	9	4	3	0	1	8	3	+4	75.0%
Paraguay	8	4	2	2	0	6	1	+5	66.7%
Chile	7	6	2	1	3	8	7	+1	38.9%
Peru	7	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	58.3%
Argentina	6	4	2	0	2	6	6	0	50.0%
Uruguay	5	6	1	2	3	4	9	-5	27.8%
Bolivia	2	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1	22.2%
Japan	1	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5	11.1%
Ecuador	0	3	0	0	3	3	7	-4	0.0%
Venezuela	0	3	0	0	3	1	13	-12	0.0%

External links

• Copa América 1999 at RSSSF