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The Colombia national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Colombia), nicknamed Los Cafeteros, represents Colombia in men's international football and is managed by the Colombian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Colombia. They are a member of CONMEBOL and are currently ranked 10th in the FIFA World Rankings. [7]
Also, in Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay, basketball is widely played & very popular. [14] [15] The FIBA World Cup took place in South America seven times: Argentina (1950, 1990), Brazil (1954, 1963), Chile , Uruguay and Colombia .
Uruguay also won the World Cup in 1950, beating Brazil in Rio de Janeiro at the Estádio do Maracanã. The event has had astounding impacts on the history of the sport, due to Brazil being a heavily favoured team at that time, and is also known as the Maracanazo. Uruguay produces well known football players such as Luis Suárez and Diego Godin.
Club Nacional de Football was the first criollo team of Uruguay. Club football in Uruguay is dominated by two big Montevideo clubs, Peñarol and Nacional, which compete in the AUF Championships (Primera División). [13] Peñarol have won the tournament 51 times (including titles by its predecessor, CURRC) and Nacional 49 times, since it began ...
DSports (formerly known as DirecTV Sports) is a Latin American sports subscription television channel owned by satellite provider Vrio Corp. and operated by Torneos.The network broadcasts and operates its feeds from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, and also broadcasts to parts of Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The National Boxing Commission of Colombia (Comisión Nacional de Boxeo de Colombia) was created and regulated the practice of boxing in Colombia. In the 1980s, the success of Miguel "Happy" Lora reigned in the bantam weight division (118 pounds) -WBC- from 1985 to 1988 and the silver medal in the Pan American Games of Carlos José Tamara .
Having missed the previous World Cup due to injury, Falcao made his World Cup debut against Japan on 19 June, in Colombia's first group game of the 2018 World Cup, with Colombia losing 1–2. [317] On 24 June, Falcao scored his first World Cup goal in Colombia's 3–0 win over Poland . [ 318 ]
Futsal is a football-based sport played on a hardcourt like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. ... Colombia Uruguay: 1979