2004 Copa América
Football tournament
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The 2004 Copa América was the 41st edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held in Peru, who hosted the tournament for the sixth time, from 6 to 25 July.
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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Peru |
| Dates | 6–25 July |
| Teams | 12 (from 2 confederations) |
| Venue | 7 (in 7 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Brazil (7th title) |
| Runners-up |  Argentina |
| Third place |  Uruguay |
| Fourth place |  Colombia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 26 |
| Goals scored | 78 (3 per match) |
| Top scorer | Adriano (7 goals) |
| Best player | Adriano[1] |
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The tournament was won by Brazil in a shootout over Argentina. This made Brazil hold the World Cup and Copa América titles simultaneously for the second time in history, as happened after 1997 Copa América.
There is no qualifying tournament for the final tournament. CONMEBOL's 10 South American countries participated, along with two more invited countries, making a total of twelve teams competing in the tournament. The two invited countries for this edition of the Copa América were Mexico and Costa Rica.
Venues
| Lima | Cuzco | Arequipa |
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| Estadio Nacional | Estadio Garcilaso | Estadio Arequipa |
| Capacity: 45,574 | Capacity: 45,056 | Capacity: 40,000 |
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| Piura | ||
| Estadio Miguel Grau | ||
| Capacity: 26,550 | ||
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| Tacna | Chiclayo | Trujillo |
| Estadio Jorge Basadre | Estadio Elías Aguirre | Estadio Mansiche |
| Capacity: 25,850 | Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 25,000 |
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Squads
Each association had to present a list of twenty-two players to compete in the competition.
Officials
Héctor Baldassi
René Ortubé
Márcio Rezende de Freitas
Rubén Selman
Óscar Ruiz
William Mattus
Pedro Ramos
Marco Antonio Rodríguez
Carlos Amarilla
Eduardo Lecca- Gilberto Hidalgo
Gustavo Brand
Draw
The draw for the competition took place on 8 March 2004 at the Lima Art Museum in Lima.[2] The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each. For logistical reasons the three teams from Pots 1 & 4 were manually assigned to their groups ahead of the draw.[3]
Group stage
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and zero 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-breaking criteria
Teams were ranked on the following criteria:
- 1. Greater number of points in all group matches
- 2. Goal difference in all group matches
- 3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
- 4. Head-to-head results
- 5. Drawing of lots by the CONMEBOL Organising Committee
| Key to colors in group tables | |
|---|---|
| Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarterfinals | |
- All times local (UTC-5)
Group A
Group B
| Argentina | 6–1 |  Ecuador |
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K. González  5' (pen.) Saviola 64', 74', 79' D'Alessandro 84' L. González 90' |
Report | Delgado 62' |
| Argentina | 4–2 | Uruguay |
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| K. González 19' (pen.) Figueroa 20', 89' Ayala 80' |
Report | Estoyanoff 7' Sánchez 38' |
Group C
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paraguay |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 |
| Brazil |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
 Costa Rica |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 |
 Chile |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 1 |
| Costa Rica | 0–1 | Paraguay |
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| Report | Dos Santos 85' (pen.) |
| Brazil | 1–0 | Chile |
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| Luís Fabiano 90' |
Report |
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 quarterfinals.
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 17 July – Chiclayo | ||||||||||
 Peru | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 July – Lima | ||||||||||
| Argentina | 1 | |||||||||
| Argentina | 3 | |||||||||
| 17 July – Trujillo | ||||||||||
| Colombia | 0 | |||||||||
| Colombia | 2 | |||||||||
| 25 July – Lima | ||||||||||
| Costa Rica | 0 | |||||||||
| Argentina | 2 (2) | |||||||||
| 18 July – Piura | ||||||||||
| Brazil (p) | 2 (4) | |||||||||
 Mexico | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 July – Lima | ||||||||||
| Brazil | 4 | |||||||||
| Brazil (p) | 1 (5) | |||||||||
| 18 July – Tacna | ||||||||||
| Uruguay | 1 (3) | Third place | ||||||||
| Paraguay | 1 | |||||||||
| 24 July – Cuzco | ||||||||||
| Uruguay | 3 | |||||||||
| Colombia | 1 | |||||||||
| Uruguay | 2 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Colombia | 2–0 | Costa Rica |
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| Aguilar 41' Moreno 45' |
Report |
Semi-finals
Third-place match
Final
Result
Goalscorers
With seven goals, Adriano was the top scorer in the tournament. There were 78 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.
7 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
- Roberto Ayala
- Andrés D'Alessandro
- César Delgado
- Juan Pablo Sorín
Lorgio Álvarez- Joaquín Botero
- Gonzalo Galindo
- Alex
- Juan
- Luisão
- Ricardo Oliveira
- Sebastián González
- Rafael Olarra
- Edwin Congo
- Sergio Herrera
- Edixon Perea
- Andy Herron
- Luis Marín
- Mauricio Wright
- Franklin Salas
- Héctor Altamirano
- Adolfo Bautista
- Ramón Morales
- Ricardo Osorio
- Pável Pardo
- Fredy Bareiro
- Ernesto Cristaldo
- Julio dos Santos
- Carlos Gamarra
- Julio González
Santiago Acasiete- Jefferson Farfán
- Flavio Maestri
- Roberto Palacios
- Claudio Pizarro
Diego Forlán- Paolo Montero
- Marcelo Sosa
- Massimo Margiotta
- Ruberth Morán
Awards
Team of the Tournament
| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
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Marketing
Mascot
The official mascot of the tournament was known as Chasqui. He was based on the Incan messengers of the same name.[6][7]
Sponsorship
Global platinum sponsor
Global gold sponsor
- América Móvil (Telcel & Telmex are the brands advertised)
- LAN Airlines
Global silver sponsor
- Anheuser-Busch InBev (Corona (beer) is the brand advertised)
- PepsiCo (Pepsi and Gatorade are the brands advertised)
- 51 (brand)
- Volkswagen
Official Supplier
- Tolteca
Theme songs
- "Más Allá de los Sueños" by Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco was the official theme song for the tournament.[8][9] The song was well received and became popular in Latin America but mostly in Perú.[10][11][12][13] Despite it being the official tournament theme song, Gian Marco was unable to perform it during the closing ceremony due to him being on tour at that time.[14]
- "La Copa Será Tuya Al Final" by Betzaida was used by Univision as their theme song.[15][16][17]
