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The Copa América 1989 football

Football (soccer)

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tournament was hosted by Brazil

Brazil

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, from July 1 to July 16, 1989. All ten CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL

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member nations participated.

Brazil won their fourth Copa América, and first since 1949, by beating Uruguay 1-0 in the final match at the Maracanã

Estádio do Maracanã

The Estádio do Maracanã , officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is an open-air stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Owned by the Rio de Janeiro State Government, it is named after the Maracanã neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. It was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, and in the final...

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The top scorer was Brazilian Bebeto

Bebeto

José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as 'Bebeto', is a former football forward, a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup...

. He scored six times, including three in the final group stage.

Venues

City	Stadium name	Map	Capacity
Goiânia Goiânia -Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm....	Estádio Serra Dourada Estádio Serra Dourada The Estádio Serra Dourada is a football stadium inaugurated on March 9, 1975 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. It was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha...	16.69969°N 49.234264°W	22,000
Recife Recife Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...	Estádio do Arruda Estádio do Arruda Estádio José do Rego Maciel, also known as Estádio do Arruda, is a multi-purpose stadium in Recife, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1972 and is able to hold 60,044 people. Estádio do Arruda is owned by Santa Cruz Futebol Clube...	8.026552°N 34.891205°W	60,000
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...	Estádio do Maracanã Estádio do Maracanã The Estádio do Maracanã , officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is an open-air stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Owned by the Rio de Janeiro State Government, it is named after the Maracanã neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. It was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, and in the final...	22.91227°N 43.230128°W	145,000
Salvador	Estádio Fonte Nova Estádio Fonte Nova The Estádio Fonte Nova, also known as Estádio Octávio Mangabeira, was a football stadium inaugurated on January 28, 1951 in Salvador, Bahia, with a maximum capacity of 66,080 people. The stadium was owned by the Bahia government, and was the home ground of Esporte Clube Bahia and Esporte Clube...	12.978788°N 38.504194°W	30,000

First round

The tournament was set up in two groups of five teams each. Each team played one match against each of the other teams within the same group. The top two teams in each group advanced to the final stage.

Two points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss.

Tie-breaker
- If teams finish leveled on points, the following tie-breakers are used:
1. greater goal difference in all group games;
2. greater number of goals scored in all group games;
3. winner of the head-to-head match between the teams in question;
4. drawing of lots.

Group A

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Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	4	3	0	1	9	4
6	4	2	2	0	5	1
4	4	1	2	1	5	4
3	4	0	3	1	4	7	−3
1	4	0	1	3	4	11	−7

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Group B

2
Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	4	2	2	0	2	0
4	4	2	0	2	6	2
4	4	2	0	2	7	5
4	4	1	2	1	2	2	0
2	4	0	2	2	0	8	−8

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Final round

6
Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
6	3	3	0	0	6	0
4	3	2	0	1	5	1
1	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4
1	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6

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Individual scorers

6 goals Bebeto

Bebeto

José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as 'Bebeto', is a former football forward, a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup...

4 goals Rubén Sosa Carlos Maldonado

3 goals Romário

Romário

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Arnoldo Iguarán

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2 goals Claudio Caniggia

Claudio Caniggia

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Juvenal Olmos

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Buenaventura Ferreira

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Adolfino Cañete

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Alfredo Mendoza

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Gustavo Neffa

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Jorge Hirano

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Antonio Alzamendi

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Enzo Francescoli

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Santiago Ostolaza

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1 goals Baltazar

Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior

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Geovani Fernando Astengo

Fernando Astengo

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Juan Carlos Letelier Jaime Pizarro

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Jaime Ramírez

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Oscar Reyes Antony de Ávila

Antony de Ávila

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René Higuita

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Ney Avilés Hermen Benítez Franco Navarro

Franco Navarro

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Juan Reynoso

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Ruben Paz

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Own goals José del Solar

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