UEFA and Conmebol confirmed this Thursday the dispute of another Champions Cup, better known as Finalissima. This, one day after the one between Argentina (Copa América champion) and Italy (European Championship champion) at Wembley, where Lionel Messi’s Albiceleste thrashed 3-0.
The next Finalissima will feature youth competitions, with a match that will pit Peñarol, champion of the Copa Libertadores sub-20, against Benfica, champion of the Junior Champions League. This commitment will take place in Montevideo next August 21.
Furthermore, in futsal, the Finalissima will be a tournament with a final four format, held in Buenos Aires between 16 and 18 of September. There will participate Portugal, champion of the last European Championship; Spain, third (Russia was runner-up): Argentina, champion of the Copa América, and runner-up Paraguay.
Regarding women’s football, UEFA and Conmebol also contemplate a Finalissima, which will take place once the winning teams of the European Championship are known 2022, in England, and the Copa América 2022, in Colombia, next July. This is how the news agency Efe reports it.
Finalissima between Italy and Argentina
With goals from Lautaro Martínez ( 21), Ángel Di María (46′) and Paulo Dybala ( 46+3′), Argentina beat Italy in the new Finalissima. Lionel Messi was awarded as the best footballer of the match. This tournament had not been played for almost 30 years, when it was called the Artemio Franchi Cup.
“We are no more or fewer candidates than another for having won this game. The World Cup is something else,” said Lionel Scaloni, Argentina’s coach, at a press conference. We played a good game, we suffered at times; but it was more or less what we had thought, and the match went well”, he sentenced.
In this In this way, Argentina revalidated the Champions Cup that they won in 1993, when Diego Armando Maradona was still in their ranks. Italy, meanwhile, could not emulate what France achieved in 1985, when they defeated Uruguay 2-0 in the first edition of the intercontinental competition.
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