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Copa Libertadores 1996
The 1996 edition of Copa Libertadores was the 37th in the tournament's history. Twenty-one teams participated in the competition. River Plate, of Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ..., won the tournament for their second time. The tournament began on March 13 and ended on June 26. Group stage Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Final stages Seeding Bracket Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals Champion Top scorers References External links Copa Libertadores de América 1996 at RSSSF.org {{Copa Libertadores Seasons 1 Copa Libertadores seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atlético River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city's estuary, Río de la Plata. River's home stadium, Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires), Monumental, is the largest in South America. River had the highest average home attendance of any association football club in the world in 2023 with 84,567. With more than 350,000 members at the end of 2023, River is one of the List of sports clubs by membership, largest sports clubs by membership. River Plate is also considered one of the ''Big Five (Argentine football), Big Five'' of Football in Argentina, Argentine football, along with Club Atlético Independiente, Independiente, San Lorenzo de Almagro, San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors, and Racing Club de Avellaneda, Racing Club. Although a Multi-sports club, multi-sport club, River Plate is best known for its professional association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Monserrat
Roberto Carlos Monserrat (born 13 September 1968 in Córdoba) is an Argentine former football midfielder. He played for the Argentina national team and won several major championships with River Plate. Career Monserrat started his playing career in 1989 with Belgrano de Córdoba in the Argentine 2nd division. In 1991 the club won promotion to the Argentine Primera. Monserrat played with the club until the end of 1992 when he moved to San Lorenzo de Almagro. In 1995, he was part of the San Lorenzo team that won the Clausura 1995 championship. Monserrat joined River Plate in 1996, he was part of the team that won three consecutive league championships, Copa Libertadores 1996 and Supercopa Sudamericana in 1997. In 1997, he was called up to play for Argentina in Copa América 1997. Monserrat also played in the Argentine Primera with Colón de Santa Fe, Racing Club de Avellaneda and Argentinos Juniors before returning to lower league football. In 2002–03, he helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL ( ) or CSF (; ; ), is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay. CONMEBOL is responsible for the organization and governance of South American football's major international tournaments. With 10 member football associations, it has the fewest members of all the confederations in FIFA. CONMEBOL national teams have won ten FIFA World Cups (Brazil five, Argentina three and Uruguay two) and CONMEBOL clubs have won 22 Intercontinental Cups and four FIFA Club World Cups. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have won two Olympic gold medals each. The World Cup qualifiers of CONMEBOL have been described as the "toughest qualifiers in the world" for their simple round-robin system, entry of some of the top national teams in the world, leveling of the weaker national teams, climate and geographic condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peñarol
Club Atlético Peñarol (), more commonly referred to as Peñarol, is a Uruguayan professional football club based in Montevideo. The club currently competes in the Uruguayan Primera División, the highest tier in Uruguayan football. The name of the club comes from the neighborhood on the outskirts of Montevideo, which itself takes its name from Pinerolo, a town in the metropolitan area of Turin, in the Italian region of Piedmont. The club's origin dates back to the 28th of September 1891, when the club was initially established as the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (also known by its acronym CURCC), founded by mostly British railway workers for the practise of cricket. The club was renamed as Peñarol on 13 December 1913; the continuity between the football section of the CURCC and Peñarol has sparked significant controversy in Uruguayan football, as some football pundits have argued that while Peñarol inherited its tradition from the CURCC and there is a sociolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Romero (Uruguayan Footballer)
Luis Alberto Romero (born June 15, 1968 in Montevideo) is a former Uruguayan footballer who played for clubs in China, Peru and Italy. Honours Peñarol * Uruguayan Primera División: 1995, 1996, 1997 Shandong Luneng * Chinese Jia-A League: 1999 * Chinese FA Cup:1999 Nacional * Uruguayan Primera División: 2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ..., 2005–06 References External links * * 1968 births Living people Uruguayan men's footballers Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers Uruguay men's international footballers Uruguayan Primera División players Serie A players Sud América players Club Nacional de Football players Cagliari Calcio players Peñarol players Central Español players Club Alianza Lima footballers Shandong Taishan F.C. pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelinho Carioca
Marcelo Pereira Surcin (born 1 February 1971), known as Marcelinho Carioca, is a former Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Known as ''Pé de Anjo'' (Angel's Foot) for his Direct free kick, free kick accuracy, he scored 80 goals in this manner out of a total tally of 513. A legend of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Corinthians, Marcelinho scored 206 goals in 420 matches for the ''Timão'' from 1994 to 2001. He won 8 trophies, including two consecutive Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, national titles and the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup in 2000, but never succeeded Brazil national football team, internationally due to his difficult character and falling-outs with national team coaches. Club career Corinthians After winning 1990 Brazilian Cup, 1991 Rio de Janeiro State Championship and 1992 Brazilian National Championship as a CR Flamengo, Flamengo player, Marcelinho Carioca signed his first contract with Corinthians—w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mário Jardel
Mário Jardel de Almeida Ribeiro (; born 18 September 1973) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was most noted for his positioning on the field and his heading ability. In spite of only representing Grêmio on loan for a single season, he is highly regarded by the club's fanbase for playing a major part in the squad that won the 1995 Copa Libertadores. With his exceptional positioning ability, he was able to become one of Europe's most prolific strikers during his time at Porto, Galatasaray, and Sporting CP, scoring 206 goals in 274 matches for those clubs. After leaving Sporting CP in 2003 at age 29, Jardel had a succession of brief and unsuccessful stints at clubs in England, Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Argentina and Australia. He then played for several smaller clubs in Brazil before retiring in 2011. Jardel made his debut for the Brazil national team in 1996, making a total of 10 appearances and being selected for the 2001 Copa Amér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmundo (footballer)
Edmundo Alves de Souza Oliveira (born 2 April 1971), better known simply as Edmundo, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired footballer who played as a forward. Nicknamed "O Animal" (''The Animal''), he was a talented yet controversial footballer and drew attention both for his skill, as well as for his volatile behaviour, both on and off the pitch. Edmundo started his professional career in Vasco da Gama in 1991, making his debut in 1992, where he won the Cariocão Grupo A in 1992. In 1993, he signed with Palmeiras, where he was part of the team that won the Brasileirão Série A in 1993 and 1994 and the Paulistão Série A1 in 1993, which ended the club's 17-year major title drought, and 1994, with a loan spell at Parma in 2000. In 1995, he moved to Flamengo and in 1996, after a loan spell in Corinthians, he returned to Vasco da Gama, where he won the Brasileirão Série A in 1997, netting 29 goals in 28 games, breaking the then Brasileirão Série A scoring record for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlético Junior
Club Deportivo Popular Junior F.C. S.A. (), commonly known as Junior de Barranquilla, by its old name Atlético Junior or simply as Junior, is a Colombian professional football team based in Barranquilla, capital of the department of Atlantico, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Junior is the main Caribbean team in the top flight of Colombian football. As of 2022, they sit in the 25th place of the best South American teams. The club was founded on 7 August 1924. Known as ''Los Tiburones'' (The Sharks), or ''El Equipo Tiburón'' (The Shark Team). Junior have won the Colombian professional football championship ten times (1977, 1980, 1993, 1995, 2004 Finalización, 2010 Apertura, 2011 Finalización, 2018 Finalización, 2019 Apertura, and 2023 Finalización). Some of the most notable players that have played for the club include Heleno de Freitas, Garrincha, Dida, Juan Ramón Verón, Efraín Sánchez, Carlos "El Pibe" Valderrama, Iván Valenciano, Teófil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Valenciano
Iván René Valenciano Pérez (born 18 March 1972) is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as forward. He is the second top goalscorer of all-time in the Colombian Primera A with 217 goals, behind Argentine Sergio Galván Rey, who surpasses him with 224 goals. During his first spell at Atlético Junior, he scored many goals and was visibly overweight. Due to this, he earned the nickname "El Gordito de Oro" (The Golden Fat Man). Club career Junior Valenciano was born in Barranquilla. He debuted as a professional player in the Junior from Barranquilla, on 23 October 1988 in a match against Independiente Santa Fe played in Bogotá, in which he scored a goal. Since then, there would be the beginning of a long history of goals that covered two decades – he was the top goal scorer for Junior six times. In 1991, only being 19 years old, he scored 30 goals, winning his first Golden Boot award. Atalanta (Italy) He participated in the Italian Serie A in 1992, play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Universidad De Chile
Club Universidad de Chile () is a professional Association football, football club based in Santiago, Chile, that plays in the Chilean Primera División, Primera División. Founded on 24 May 1927, Universidad de Chile is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the league title 18 times. In the last 10 years, the team has been crowned champion six times, including their undefeated run to the 2011 Copa Sudamericana title. The team has been associated with the colour blue throughout its history, blue is present on the logo, which was officially adopted in 1943. The club rivalries are with Colo-Colo and Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, Universidad Católica, with whom they regularly contest the Santiago derbies known as ''Superclásicos''. Despite not owning its stadium, the club usually rents and plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, in the commune of Ñuñoa in Santiago. Universidad de Chile was the champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
