Copa Libertadores

Copa Libertadores Roundup — April 28 — 30

by George Metellus on May 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Its the final week of Lib­er­ta­dores action, the bracket for the knock­out stage is set. Teams fought hard to get closer to becom­ing the cham­pion of the 50th Copa Lib­er­ta­dores. On Tues­day, the top two teams in Groups 7 and 8 were final­ized. In Group 7, the only drama was who would fin­ish 2nd as […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup: April 14 — 16

by George Metellus on April 17, 2009 · 0 comments

50 Years of Pas­sion is what the 50th Anniver­sary Copa Lib­er­ta­dores is all about. The tour­na­ment is 2 weeks away from final­iz­ing the seed­ings for the knock­out stage. There is still a lot of maneu­ver­ing as teams look to fin­ish in the top 2 slots in their groups. Group 6 is set­ting up for some […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup: April 7 — 9

by George Metellus on April 10, 2009 · 0 comments

A full week of Lib­er­ta­dores matches took place this week as teams seek points to advance to the knock­out stages which are less than 1 month away.  On Tues­day, Libertad’s per­fect record ended with a 2–1 road loss to Uni­ver­si­tario in Lima.  The Peru­vians took the 3 points when Piero Alva scor­ing in the 62 […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup: Mar. 17 — 19

by George Metellus on March 20, 2009 · 0 comments

We are get­ting close to the end of the group stage as teams jockey for higher seeds in the Round of 16.  As expected, the big name teams dis­played their power this week. Boca Juniors con­tin­ued their con­fi­dent play in the group stage with a 3–1 road win vs Guarani of Paraguay.  Boca dom­i­nated the 2nd half […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup: Mar. 10 — 12

by George Metellus on March 13, 2009 · 0 comments

That was the scene last year when Liga De Quito stunned the world with their Lib­er­ta­dores tri­umph.  Every team in the group stage is vying to feel the same joy & euphoria. With every team hav­ing played at least 2 group matches after this week of Lib­er­ta­dores matches, it is becom­ing clear who are the pre­tenders and the […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup — Mar. 3 — 5

by George Metellus on March 6, 2009 · 0 comments

O Rei has expe­ri­enced the joy of win­ning a cou­ple of Lib­er­ta­dores with San­tos of Brazil and even though San­tos is not par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Lib­er­ta­dores this year, the tour­na­ment is still loaded with drama.  This past week was a pos­i­tive time for Chilean clubs in the Lib­er­ta­dores. Colo Colo sur­prised Palmeiras in Sao Paulo 3 –1 on the strength of […]

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Copa Libertadores Roundup — Feb. 24–26

by George Metellus on February 27, 2009 · 0 comments

We are offi­cially in full swing this week for the Copa Lib­er­ta­dores because every team has now played in the group stage.  We will soon know who are the pre­tenders and the con­tenders in the chase to win the 50th Anniver­sary of the Copa Lib­er­ta­dores.  Deportivo Cuenca moved to the top of Group 2 with an impressive […]

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