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Here is a little picspam of selected pics from the Copa Libertadores games this past week. This tournament is in the group stages, so it's still early on for them.

The goal.com 'team of the week' is Once Caldas of Colombia who defeated favourites Sao Paulo of Brazil.

Results from SOME of the games:

Monterrey (Mexico) 2 - 1 Nacional (Paraguay)
Once Caldas 2 - 1 Sao Paulo
Blooming (Bolivia) 1 - 4 Lanus (Argentina)
Corinthians (Brazil) 2 - 1 Racing (Uruguay)
Universitario (Peru) 0 - 0 Libertad (Paraguay)
Internacionale Porto Alegre (Brazil) 2 - 1 Emelec (Ecuador)
Morelia (Mexico) 2 - 1 Nacional Montevideo (Uruguay)
Deportivo Italia (Venezuela) 0 - 1 Velez Sarsfield (Argentina)
Juan Aurich (Peru) 2 - 0 Bolivar (Bolivia)
Cruzeiro (Brazil) 4 - 1 Colo Colo (Chile)
Flamengo (Brazil) 2 - 0 U. de Catolica (Chile)

Once Caldas actually had its league game suspended last week because of an explosion at a local hospital in Ibague where the game was to be played. Authorities thought that since ambulance and medical staff rushed en masse to the hospital, then the fans and players at the stadium would have been left without any medical help if it had been necessary. Anyway, if anyone is interested, there is an article in the link below:

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And a teaser pic from the Lanus game:



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And lastly, here is a link to an interesting discussion on why the Copa Libertadores might be more interesting than the Champions League. From the Bleacher Report, printed in BBC Sport originally.

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I thought I'd post a picspam from the Interliga games so far. This tournament is taking place in the Southern USA, but it determines which two Mexican teams will take the two final Mexican berths in the 2010 Copa Libertadores. I have been fortunate in being able to watch the games on HDTV here. The picture quality is superb, such a nice change from the horrible feeds GOLTV gives us of the La Liga games (although I'm not complaining...I feel lucky to get them at all). Anyway, there are two groups of four teams each, and the group winners will go to the Copa Lib. So far America is leading Group A and Puebla Group B.

Here are pics of the games.

A teaser:

Memo Ochoa warming up on January 5th. XD



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