Two-time champions Boca Juniors, as well as compatriots Defensa y Justicia and Internacional from Brazil will be looking to win another title in South American Cup, who celebrated this Monday the group stage draw in the Paraguayan city of Luque. Boca, who won the Copa Sudamericana in 2004 and 2005, top group D, where they face Brazil’s Fortaleza, Bolivian Nacional Potosí and Paraguayan Sportivo Trinidense.
Argentina’s Defense and Justice also began to command group A, where the team from the city of Florencio Varela seeks to repeat the campaign in 2020, where it won the tournament. For its part, Brazilian Internacional, who will lead group C, will look to repeat the history it wrote in 2008. This time, Venezuelan Rayo Zuliano, Peruvian Deportivo Garcilaso and Paraguayan Sportivo Trinidense will make their debut in the regional tournament.
In this year’s group stage, six representatives from Argentina and the same number from Brazil will clash, as well as the four teams that lost in phase 3 of the Copa Libertadores. Additionally, 16 clubs that secured their ticket to the first stage of the Sudamericana will participate. The leader of each group will advance to the round of 16, while the runners-up will compete in the qualifying round to advance to the competition.
THIS IS WHAT THE GROUPS THINK
Group A: Defense and Justice (ARG), Ind Medellín (COL), Universidad César Vallejo (PER) and Always Ready (BOL) Group B: Cruzeiro (BRA), Unión La Calera (CHI), Universidad Católica (ECU) and Alianza FC (COL)
Group C: Internacional (BRA), Delfín (ECU), Belgrano (ARG) and Real Tomayapo (BOL)
Group D: Boca Juniors (ARG), Fortaleza (BRA), Nacional Potosí (BOL) and Sportivo Trinidense (PAR)
Group E: Atlético Paranaense (BRA), Danubio (URU), Sportivo Ameliano (PAR) and Rayo Zuliano (VEN)
Group F: Corinthians (BRA), Argentinos Juniors (ARG), Racing (URU) and Nacional (PAR)
Group G: Lanús (ARG), Metropolitanos (VEN), Cuiabá (BRA) and Deportivo Garcilaso (PER)
Group H: Karera (ARG), Coquimbo Unidos (CHI), Sportivo Luqueño (PAR) and Red Bull Bragantino (BRA).
Source: La Verdad
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