Before we look ahead to next month's Copa America with Canada participating for the first time, let's look back at what happened at the last South American football championship in 2021?
Copa America 2021 wasn’t originally scheduled to be held in Brazil. It wasn’t even supposed to have been held in 2021 for that matter.
Weeks before the Copa kicked off, Barcelona finished as runners-up to Atletico in La Liga. The Blaugrana wrapped up its season on May 16 with a 2-1 loss to Celta Vigo. Messi scored the lone goal in the defeat. Nobody knew it at the time, but the goal would be the last he would score in a Barcelona shirt.
But honours won while playing for Argentina were missing. Argentina hadn’t won a World Cup since 1986 and Copa since 1993. In five Copas with Messi, Argentina finished as runners-up three times. The Albiceleste just couldn’t get over the hump.
The quarters got underway with excitement as runners-up in 2019, Peru, met Paraguay in Goiania. Both teams quickly learned that Gustavo Gomez could both give and take away. From a corner the 11minute, David Martinez’s header was turned aside by Pedro Gallese, but Gomez was on the doorstep to bundle the rebound over the line to make it 1-0 for Paraguay. Only 10 minutes later, Peru was level when Andre Carrillo’s cross for Gianluca Lapadula was turned into his own net by Gomez.
After scoring four goals in their final group-stage match, Argentina stayed hot offensively against Ecuador in the last of the four quarter-finals. Messi squandered an early chance for the Albiceleste when he was hilariously played onside yards behind the Ecuador backline by an errant back pass, but rang his effort off of the post. Messi could only laugh at his mistake.when Hernan Galindez came off of his line and almost out of the box entirely to stop the run of Nicolas Gonzalez.
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