Alexis Sanchez signs a 5 year deal with Barcelona

Barcelona confirmed that 22-year old Alexis Sanchez is in fact joining the Catalonian club and will be transferred from the Italian Seria A. Udinesse Calcio released the Chilean striker on Thursday.

Alexis Sanchez celebrating a goal for Chile in
Copa America Argentina 2011

Barcelona was able to steal the deal away for €26 million, from such teams as Manchester City and Chelsea who had their eyes on Sanchez.

The fact that Barcelona signed a 5 year contract with Alexis Sanchez, shows the club's strong commitment to develop the young striker into a star player and implement his enormous talent.

Considering his out of the ordinary performance at Copa America Argentina 2011, Sanchez should make a strong addition to the Barcelona's attacking game.

Alexis Sanchez appearing for Chile international team

Uruguay beats Paraguay 3-0 in Copa América 2011 Final

Some 60,000 fans gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay to celebrate the country's Copa America 2011 champion squad return home. It's been a long wait since Uruguay last won the Copa in 1995 and now the title belongs to Uruguay again.

Luis Suarez celebrates his goal against
Paraguay in Copa America 2011 final

Uruguay displayed top level game in the first half, as star forward Luis Suarez opened a score on 12' after a pass by Diego Perez. Overall much stronger and with higher possession percentage, Uruguay scored the second goal on the 42', when Arevalo Rios stole the ball from the Paraguay defender and gave a precise pass to Diego Forlán, who took a shot and placed a ball in the net of Justo Villar.

In response to Uruguay's total domination in a first half, Paraguay answered with an attack by Haedo, who hit the crossbar of Uruguay's Fernando Muslera. However, to the disappointment of Paraguay fans, that was not enough to save the game, as Diego Farlan delivered a final blow on the 90', scoring a goal, which ended Paraguay's dream of Copa America 2011 championship title.

"My grandfather won it, my father won it, and now I have also done it," Diego Forlán said in Monumental stadium after the win over Paraguay. “Three generations have won this trophy,” he said. “The name of Forlán will stay in history.”

Diego Forlán goes down in history of Copa America
as a third generation player to participate and win
the the tournament

Luis Suarez was chosen as the best player of the tournament.

Undefeated, Uruguay won the 2011 Copa America for the 15th time in the history of this oldest international championship on the planet.

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Copa América 2011: Uruguay, Mexico 1 - 0

July 12, 2011, La Plata, Argentina
Mexico international fans were stunned by the loss to Uruguay on Tuesday at La Plata. The game presented a significant challenge for Mexico, while Uruguay's Luis Suarez and Diego Forlan pressed relentlessly on the Mexican defense.

Alvaro Pereira scores a goal against Mexico in a Group C match

 A goal scored at 14' when Diego Forlán's shot slipped out of the grip of the Mexican goalkeeper Michel and Alvaro Pereira, who was standing nearby, pushed the ball into the net. Alternatively there were not too many chances created by the Mexican side and only Giovani dos Santos provided with few opportunities to even the score but failed to capitalize on them.

Diego Forlán and the rest of the Uruguay's squad
will face Argentina in a quarter-final

Mexico was knocked out from Group C and was sent packing home to face the embarrassment at Copa América 2011 without a single win and with a loss to Uruguay in addition to a scandal with suspensions involving nearly half of the team in the early stages of competition.
Uruguay will move on to quarter-finals to face the host Argentina, which is promising to be a very exciting derby.

Copa América 2011: Paraguay, Ecuador draw 0 - 0

Paraguay tied 0 – 0 with Ecuador in the first round of Copa America’s 2011 Group B in the Argentine city of Santa Fe. "Today was a very complicated game, we wanted to win, tried to score the goal but could not, now let's see how it’s going to be”, Nelson Haedo said in his interview after a very tough match with Ecuador.

Paraguay began the match with advantage in the opening stages but failed to maintain the momentum. Ecuador's attackers did not deliver and the match ended in draw 0 - 0. 

Copa América 2011: Brazil 0 - Venezuela 0

Copa America Argenita 2011 edition is turning out to be full of surprises as Venezuela drew inspiration from such teams as Costa Rica, who put up a good fight against a definite favorite in their group. Brazil kept relentless pressure from the beginning of the match, while Venezuela made more then few mistakes on defense.

However Venezuela's Juan Arango had a chance to put the ball in the net of the opponent but Brazilian defenders were relieved when the ball curved away from the goal. From Brazil's side the chance came as Dani Alvez picked out Alexandre Pato who missed the net hitting the crossbar.

Lionel Messi not too impressed with Argentina's 1-1 draw with Bolivia

Lionel Messi was not impressed with a goal by Edivaldo Rojas, who shocked Argentina’s defense with stunnig goal and opened the score in Group A opener of Copa America 2011 tournament.

In his interview Messi said,  "They surprised us with a shitty goal and we drew level thanks to Kun [Aguero]. But we are upset because we didn't achieve our goal.” "We did some things well, but we have to keep growing and improving."

Sergio Batista, who replaced Diego Maradona was not happy as Messi, Tevez and Lavezzi failed to ignite Argentina's attacks and Bolivians should be proud of the game that they played. However the host nation was able to score an equalizer to pull a draw after Sergio Aguero delivered an excruciating goal off of a chest pass from Nicolas Burdisso.