After an absorbing encounter in Charlotte, North Carolina, it was Colombia who emerged to earn a meeting against defending champions Argentina in the Copa America final in Miami on Sunday.
The spotlight was on Lionel Messi before this Copa America but Rodriguez, who turns 33 on Friday, has stolen the show.
Stuart JamesA quintessential Copa America game?
This was Copa America football — South American football — at its bewitching best, witnessed and enhanced by a crowd so fervently Colombian that we may as well have been in Medellin.
Ugarte had ‘played’ Munoz, and Colombia knew that the balance of the game had totally shifted.
Persons:
Jefferson Lerma, Daniel Munoz, elbowing Manuel Ugarte, Nestor Lorenzo’s, Uruguay’s Darwin Nunez, Jack Lang, Stuart James, Colombia’s, Nestor Lorenzo, James Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Lionel Messi, Timothy A, Clary, Messi, Stuart James A, Luis Diaz, dervish, Rodrigo Bentancur, Munoz, Luis Suarez, Tim Nwachukwu, Richard Rios, Rios, Mateus Uribe, Jack Lang Daniel Munoz’s, Manuel Ugarte, Darwin Nunez, Ugarte, gesturing, ‘, ’ Munoz, Stuart James Oh, Marcelo Bielsa’s, Edinson Cavani, you’ve, Nunez, Nicolas de la Cruz, Fede Valverde, Nunez’s, Chandan Khanna, shanking —, Davinson Sanchez, clobbered, La Celeste, Omar Vega, Jack Lang What’s
Organizations:
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Locations:
Charlotte , North Carolina, Colombia, Miami, Uruguay, Colombia … Argentina, … Argentina, Argentina, Copa America, Colombian, Medellin, Miami Gardens , Florida, Charlotte, North Carolina