Gervinho asked for but atlas didn't get a private beach
Copa America 2015
jones wrote:Higuain should be put on suicide watch. WC final, Copa America final, EL semi vs Dnipro and the decisive penalty for 3rd place in Italy vs Lazio - all in twelve months, getting close to Robben levels of bottling.
Was about to say that. He basically bottled ALL the important matches this season. Pathetic striker really in big games.
Irish gunner wrote:General Mirth wrote:Wtf there's another Copa America next year - will someone give Sanchez a summer off ffs.
It's unreal, during the match I was looking at wikipedia trying to work out how often the copa America is played. It isn't like a normal tournament where it's every X number of years. If you look at the dates of previous tournaments there is no system whatsoever, it's complete chaos
They seem to organize it whenever they feel like it.
Copa America is played every 4 years, but in the last decade they kept changing the year that it's played after a certain cycle to gain more viewership.
Next year's Copa is a one off, it's sort of a special centennial tournament before it resumes as per normal 4 years later in 2019.
As things stand, Alexis will not have a summer break until 2020. He has Copa America 2016, Confed 2017, World Cup 2018, Copa 2019.
That is absolutely ridiculous.
Clrnc wrote:jones wrote:Higuain should be put on suicide watch. WC final, Copa America final, EL semi vs Dnipro and the decisive penalty for 3rd place in Italy vs Lazio - all in twelve months, getting close to Robben levels of bottling.
Was about to say that. He basically bottled ALL the important matches this season. Pathetic striker really in big games.
Irish gunner wrote:It's unreal, during the match I was looking at wikipedia trying to work out how often the copa America is played. It isn't like a normal tournament where it's every X number of years. If you look at the dates of previous tournaments there is no system whatsoever, it's complete chaos
Copa America is played every 4 years, but in the last decade they kept changing the year that it's played after a certain cycle to gain more viewership.
Next year's Copa is a one off, it's sort of a special centennial tournament before it resumes as per normal 4 years later in 2019.
As things stand, Alexis will not have a summer break until 2020. He has Copa America 2016, Confed 2017, World Cup 2018, Copa 2019.
It really isn't, sometimes it's every year, sometimes it's every 2nd year, or 3rd year, or 4th year, or there's just a random 8 year gap
Tournaments:
1916 1917 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1929 1935 1937 1939 1941 1942 1945 1946 1947 1949 1953 1955 1956 1957 1959 1959 1963 1967 1975 1979 1983 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2004 2007 2011 2015
2019 2023
edit: but yeah, now it's set to be every 4 years until 2023 at least 
RC8 wrote:flobaba wrote:RC8, where you at man? Congrats!
Thanks!!!
When Alexis' penalty went in, I cried from football for the first time in 17 years.
Keeping this cup home meant so much to us, and to have Alexis finish it off of all people (former Colo-Colo and current Arsenal player) just made it so ridiculously sweet for me. This done my decade.
Congratulations mate!
The passion of the Chilean people in the stands and of the players on the pitch is something very, very special. Such a great moment when Alexis won it for you. The video in this link captures it well;
Hope you can have one more crack at the World Cup with this group of players.