The soccer teams of Uruguay and Paraguay, the most prominent of the region in the 2010 World Cup, extended the positive progress and will be the protagonists, on Sunday, of the final of Copa America Argentina-2011, at the Monumental stadium, in Buenos Aires.
Uruguay won the fourth place in the top event last year and Paraguay fell in the quarterfinals 1-0 to Spain, then the world champion.
Uruguay will be overwhelming favourites to see off Paraguay and clinch a record 15th continental crown, their first since 1995, to break their tie with Argentina.
Paraguay, who will likely pin their hopes on Lucas Barrios and Nelson Haedo Valdez in attack with Roque Santa Cruz still not fully fit, also won the event in 1953 and were runners-up on five occasions.
Yet here, the talk is of how they have reached Sunday's showdown at River Plate's Estadio Monumental by drawing all their matches.
But it is Uruguay, despite having only a 3.5 million population to draw on, who have shaped the history of the world's oldest international football tournament with their 14 wins and six final losses in 42 previous editions.
They will be looking to Diego Forlan, the top scorer at the 2010 World Cup, to find the target for the first time at the tournament.
The winner of Sunday's game will go forward to represent South America's CONMEBOL association in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Brazil.
Possible line ups of the teams:
Uruguay: 1-Fernando Muslera, 16-Maxi Pereira, 2-Diego Lugano, 4- Sebastián Coates and 22-Martín Cáceres; 15-Diego Pérez, 17-Egidio Arévalo Ríos, 11-Álvaro Pereira and 20-Álvaro González; 9-Luis Suárez and 10-Diego Forlán. Coach: Oscar Tabárez.
Paraguay: 1-Justo Villar, 2-Darío Verón, 14-Paulo Da Silva, 5-Antolín Alcaraz and 17-Aureliano Torres; 13-Enrique Vera, 8- Edgar Barreto, 16-Cristian Riveros and 21-Marcelo Estigarribia; 18- Nelson Haedo Valdez and 19-Lucas Barrios. Coach: Gerardo Martino.
Copa America 2011
Paraguay vs Uruguay
Date: 24 july 2011
Time: 15:00 ET
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