Biology:2004 Copa América

Short description: Football tournament

The 2004 Copa América was the 41st edition of the Copa América, the South-American championship for international association football teams. The competition was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body, and was held in Peru, who hosted the tournament for the sixth time, from 6 to 25 July.

The tournament was won by Brazil in a shootout over Argentina. This made Brazil hold the World Cup and Copa América titles simultaneously for the second time in history, as happened after 1997 Copa América.

There is no qualifying tournament for the final tournament. CONMEBOL's 10 South American countries participated, along with two more invited countries, making a total of twelve teams competing in the tournament. The two invited countries for this edition of the Copa América were Mexico and Costa Rica.

Venues

Lima	Cuzco	Arequipa
Estadio Nacional	Estadio Garcilaso	Estadio Arequipa
Capacity: 45,574	Capacity: 45,056	Capacity: 40,000
Piura	Arequipa Chiclayo Cusco Lima Piura Tacna Trujillo
Estadio Miguel Grau
Capacity: 26,550
Tacna	Chiclayo	Trujillo
Estadio Jorge Basadre	Estadio Elías Aguirre	Estadio Mansiche
Capacity: 25,850	Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 25,000

Squads

Further information: 2004 Copa América squads

Each association had to present a list of twenty-two players to compete in the competition.

Officials

• Héctor Baldassi
• René Ortubé
• Márcio Rezende de Freitas
• Rubén Selman
• Óscar Ruiz
• William Mattus
• Pedro Ramos
• Marco Antonio Rodríguez
• Carlos Amarilla
• Eduardo Lecca
• Gilberto Hidalgo
• Gustavo Brand

Draw

The draw for the competition took place on 8 March 2004 at the Lima Art Museum in Lima. The teams were divided into three groups of four teams each. For logistical reasons the three teams from Pots 1 & 4 were manually assigned to their groups ahead of the draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Peru (assigned to Group A) Argentina (assigned to Group B) Brazil (assigned to Group C)	Colombia Paraguay Uruguay	Venezuela Costa Rica Mexico	Bolivia (assigned to Group A) Ecuador (assigned to Group B) Chile (assigned to Group C)

Group stage

Each team plays one match against each of the other teams within the same group. Three points are awarded for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a defeat.

First and second placed teams, in each group, advance to the quarter-finals. The best third placed team and the second best third placed team, also advance to the quarter-finals.

Tie-breaking criteria

Teams were ranked on the following criteria:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches

2. Goal difference in all group matches

3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches

4. Head-to-head results

5. Drawing of lots by the CONMEBOL Organising Committee

Key to colors in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarterfinals

• All times local (UTC-5)

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Ranking of third-placed teams

At the end of the first stage, a comparison was made between the third-placed teams of each group. The two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarterfinals.

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Goal scorers

With seven goals, Adriano is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 78 goals were scored by 55 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

Adriano, top scorer

7 goals

• Adriano

3 goals

• Kily González
• Javier Saviola
• Carlos Bueno

2 goals

• Luciano Figueroa
• Lucho González
• Carlos Tevez
• Abel Aguilar
• Tressor Moreno
• Luís Fabiano
• Agustín Delgado
• Nolberto Solano
• Fabián Estoyanoff
• Vicente Sánchez
• Darío Silva

1 goal

• Roberto Ayala
• Andrés D'Alessandro
• César Delgado
• Juan Pablo Sorín
• Lorgio Álvarez
• Joaquín Botero
• Gonzalo Galindo
• Alex
• Juan
• Luisão
• Ricardo Oliveira
• Sebastián González
• Rafael Olarra
• Edwin Congo
• Sergio Herrera
• Edixon Perea
• Andy Herron
• Luis Marín
• Mauricio Wright
• Franklin Salas
• Héctor Altamirano
• Adolfo Bautista
• Ramón Morales
• Ricardo Osorio
• Pável Pardo
• Fredy Bareiro
• Ernesto Cristaldo
• Julio dos Santos
• Carlos Gamarra
• Julio González
• Santiago Acasiete
• Jefferson Farfán
• Flavio Maestri
• Roberto Palacios
• Claudio Pizarro
• Diego Forlán
• Paolo Montero
• Marcelo Sosa
• Massimo Margiotta
• Ruberth Morán

Awards

• Most Valuable Player: Template:Fbicon Adriano
• Top Goalscorer: Template:Fbicon Adriano (7 goals)

Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Júlio César	Javier Zanetti Roberto Ayala Juan Darío Rodríguez	Lucho González Pável Pardo Renato Alex	Carlos Tevez Adriano

Marketing

Mascot

The official mascot of the tournament was known as Chasqui. He was based on the Incan messengers of the same name.

Sponsorship

Global platinum sponsor

• Petrobras
• LG

Global gold sponsor

• América Móvil (Telcel & Telmex are the brands advertised)
• LAN Airlines

Global silver sponsor

• Anheuser-Busch InBev (Corona (beer) is the brand advertised)
• PepsiCo (Pepsi and Gatorade are the brands advertised)
• 51 (brand)
• Volkswagen

Official Supplier

• Tolteca

Theme songs

• "Más Allá de los Sueños" by Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco was the official theme song for the tournament. The song was well received and became popular in Latin America but mostly in Perú. Despite it being the official tournament theme song, Gian Marco was unable to perform it during the closing ceremony due to him being on tour at that time.
• "La Copa Será Tuya Al Final" by Betzaida was used by Univision as their theme song.

External links

• Copa América 2004 at RSSSF