Brazil vs. Argentina will face this Saturday for the final of the Copa América 2020 at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro and will be played from 7:00 pm.

Match Schedule:

Brazil vs. Argentina

Copa America Final 2020

Date: 10 July 2021; Time: 7:00 pm

Venue: Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

Fourteen years after the continental final in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina meet again with a title at stake. That day, with the Albiceleste defeat, marked the beginning of a bad run in the finals for Lionel Messi with his national team.

Leo Messi is again before another opportunity to lift a title for his country, with which he has only celebrated gold in the Beijing Olympic Games. After losing the final match in 2007, they fell in the finals of the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 and 2016 Copa América, both against Chile and on penalties.

Opposite, his ex-teammate Neymar has also resisted the continental tournament; In the 2019 edition, in which the 'Scratch' ended up winning the title, the PSG striker could not participate after seriously injuring himself in a friendly just before the appointment. Now, he hopes to help Tite's team revalidate the trophy, all with the incentive of playing at home.

The victories against Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia, in addition to the draw with Ecuador on the group stage, allowed Brazil to advance as the leader to the quarterfinals, where a goal by Lucas Paquetá eliminated Chile. Already in the 'semis', again with so much from Paquetá, he beat Peru by the minimum difference and assured his presence in the final, where he wants to lift his tenth Copa América

Meanwhile, Lionel Scaloni's men suffered to overcome Colombia in the semifinals, where goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez became the Albiceleste star by stopping three of the 'coffee' shots in the final round. Before, they had left Ecuador on the road in the quarterfinals after a group stage in which they only gave up points in their debut for Chile.

In search of its fifteenth title in the tournament - which would allow it to tie in the record with Uruguay - and the first since 1993, Argentina will have all its players, while Brazil will not be able to have Gabriel Jesús or Felipe.

Today 26 May 2021, Racing Club wins with Rentistas by 3-0 goals in Group E of the Copa Libertadores. Racing Club finished at the top of Group E of the Copa Libertadores with 14 points, ahead of Brazil's Sao Paulo. 

Argentine  Racing  Club, qualified for the knockout stages of the Copa Libertadores, secured first place in Group E by beating Uruguayan Rentistas 3-0 (partial 1-0), in one of the games for the sixth and last Date played this Tuesday at the Cilindro de Avellaneda (southern outskirts of Buenos Aires).

Tomas Chancalay (14, 49, and 68) scored the goals for the victory of the Albiceleste 'Academia', who also played a large part in the match with ten players due to the early expulsion of Julián López (16) by a double warning.

Racing goalkeeper Gabriel Arias also showed off by saving a penalty from Salomón Rodríguez (68).

With this result, Racing finished at the top of Group E with 14 points, ahead of the Brazilian Sao Paulo, escort with 11, both classified to eighth, while the Peruvian Sporting Cristal (4) will go to the South American Cup as third, and Rentistas (3) was left out of everything.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, North Korea will not participate in the in Tokyo, Japan Olympics that will take place this summer.

The decision was made on March 25 at a meeting of the North Korean Olympic Committee, but only announced on April 5 on the government website Sports in DPR Korea. The site claims that the decision not to participate in the Olympics was made "to protect athletes from the global health crisis caused by COVID-19". The Olympics, which will start on July 23, were supposed to take place in the summer of last year but had been postponed due to the pandemic.

So far, the North Korean regime has always maintained that there has been no coronavirus infection in the country, although it is very difficult to believe that this is true. It is true, however, that the regime intervened very early to limit the risk of the spread of the virus, adopting some of the most drastic measures in the world: since February it had suspended flights and trains to and from China and imposed isolation of 40 days (therefore more than double that of much of the rest of the world) to those arriving from abroad or having had contact with those who had been there.

The Tokyo Olympics will be the first summer Olympics that North Korea will not participate in since it boycotted the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, in the United States, and those of 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.

Beyond their sporting value, the Tokyo Olympics were seen as a further possibility of improving diplomatic relations between North and South Korea.

Peru vs. Paraguay will face this Thursday, October 8 at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in Asunción. The game corresponds to the first day of the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers and will be played from 5:30 pm (Peruvian time).

Match Schedule:

Peru vs. Paraguay

WC Qualification South America

Date: 08 October 2020; Time: 5:30 pm (Peruvian time)

Venue: Defensores del Chaco Stadium

After seven months of postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Qualifiers in South America will begin with the clash between Peru and Paraguay, a duel that has already occurred five times during Ricardo Gareca's cycle and where the bicolor always won. One of those games took place in a setting that will be like this Wednesday. For the same contest and in the same town, the visitors achieved a 1-4, a result with which they won for the first time in Asunción.

In the Peruvian National Team, there are no major doubts regarding the formation with which they will face the match. The defensive sector would be the same that could develop since the last Copa América. In that sense, those who would be in the observation are the components of the left sector, since both Luis Abram and Miguel Trauco have not played official matches in their clubs for months due to the pandemic.

One of the main novelties in Gareca's proposal will be in the middle sector. The inclusion of a third midfielder gained strength in the technical command, being Pedro Aquino who would join Renato Tapia and Yoshimar Yotún, three players who started in the friendly with a victory in the United States against Brazil.

André Carrillo and Christian Cueva are constant in the national offense, which will back Raúl Ruidíaz, the top scorer in Seattle Sounders who will seek to translate this into the national team after the absence of Paolo Guerrero. Jefferson Farfán is part of the delegation and will be among the 23 eligible footballers, although the strategist would reserve it for the course of the commitment.

Olympique de Lyon and Bayern Munich will meet this Wednesday in Lisbon for the semifinals of the Champions League. The 2019-2020 Champions League is one game away from its grand finale. This Wednesday, August 19 at 2:00 p.m. we will meet the second finalist of the tournament: Olympique Lyon vs. Bayern Munich will play the second semifinal match at the José Alvalade Stadium.

Match Schedule:

Lyon vs. Bayern Munich

Champions League Semi-final

Date: 19 August 2020; Time:  2:00 p.m.

Stadium: José Alvalade

The French team led by Rudi García comes to this meeting full of motivation after eliminating Pep Guardiola's Manchester United in the quarterfinals and giving the bell in the tournament, since around before they had also been in charge of leaving Juventus out, which cost the Italian team the dismissal of their then coach, Sarri. For its part, Bayern, who looks favorite in this key after the overwhelming 2-8 victory over Barcelona, will seek to continue their 27-game streak without knowing defeat and settle in the final of the tournament, an instance to which they did not reach since the 2012-13 season when they beat Dortmund.

If Lyon gives the bell to eliminate the Giant of Bavaria we could also see a final in French, as it would be measured against PSG that thrashed Leipzig, otherwise Bayern Munich will represent Germany to have the third clash between Germans and French for la Orejona, the 2020 Champions League title, on August 23 at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa.

It will be held without an audience at the José Alvalade Stadium and the winner will get a direct pass to the grand final. Bayern Munich seems unstoppable. Hans-Dieter Flick's men arrive motivated after thrashing Barcelona 8-2 and are emerging as the great numbers to win the title.

However, he will face a tough rival who comes from eliminating huge teams like Juventus and Manchester City. This is Olympique de Lyon, Rudi García's French team that will seek to reach a Champions League final for the first time in its history. The winner of this match must be measured against the winner of Leipzig vs. PSG in the grand final.