CONMEBOL Copa America Centenario 2016 (champions - Chile)
Chile retained the title at the Copa America Centenario, beating Argentina on penalties for the second year running - 4-2 after another goalless 120 minutes - at MetLife Stadium on 26 June 2016 before 82,026 spectators, in a final reduced to ten against ten inside the first 45 minutes.
Why this wins its question: Retellings of the Centenario final keep Messi's miss and lose the match it happened in. CONMEBOL's ficha tecnica has what they drop: two red cards inside the first 45 minutes, so the 120 goalless minutes were played ten against ten; the 82,026 attendance; and the full shoot-out order down to Silva's decisive kick. It also records that CONMEBOL's own itemised shoot-out list is two kicks short of the result its own page reports.
Claims
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Chile beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties in the Copa America Centenario final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday 26 June 2016, the match having finished 0-0 through both 90 minutes and 30 minutes of extra time. The attendance was 82,026.
Both sides finished with ten men: Marcelo Diaz of Chile was sent off in the 28th minute and Marcos Rojo of Argentina in the 42nd, so the final was played eleven against ten briefly and then ten against ten for the rest of normal time and all of extra time.
In the shoot-out Arturo Vidal's opening kick was saved and Lionel Messi shot wide. Nicolas Castillo, Charles Aranguiz and Jean Beausejour then scored for Chile and Javier Mascherano and Sergio Aguero for Argentina, with Claudio Bravo saving from Lucas Biglia and Francisco "El Gato" Silva converting the decisive kick.
CONMEBOL's itemised list of that shoot-out is incomplete: it prints seven kicks and omits two that the same page describes in its prose and in its own summary of scorers - Biglia's saved attempt and Silva's decisive conversion. The scorer summary on the page (Aguero and Mascherano for Argentina; Castillo, Aranguiz, Beausejour and Silva for Chile) is what reconciles to the 4-2 result.
The final was refereed by a Brazilian trio, Heber Lopes with assistants Kleber Gil and Bruno Boschilia, in warm conditions of 26 degrees. Gerardo Martino coached Argentina and Juan Antonio Pizzi coached Chile.
The Centenario was the second of Chile's only two Copa America titles, won in consecutive years against the same opponent, both finals goalless after extra time and both decided on penalties.