Copa America Group Stage Highlights

Luis Antonio Valencia

Ecuador

1-0 Chile

Hernan Crespo
Argentina
1-1 USA
2-1 USA

Nery Castillo
Mexico
1-0 Brasil
2-0 Brasil

Roque Santa Cruz
Paraguay
1-0 Colombia
2-0 Colombia
3-0 Colombia

Before the final day of group play, here are the standings:

Group A
4 Venezuela, +2
3 Peru, +1
3 Uruguay, -2
1 Bolivia, -1

Group B
6 Mexico, +3
3 Brazil, +1
3 Chile, -2
0 Ecuador, -2

Group C
6 Paraguay, +7
6 Argentina, +5
0 USA, -5
0 Colombia, -7

New Season = New Kits, New People.

With the new season comes changes. New faces, new kits... and therefore, new faces in those kits.

How will everyone look? Will it just be too weird to see that former Red in the white adidas of a Real Madrid shirt?

Manchester United released a new home range: classic all-red shirt (save for a white stripe down the back), white shorts, and black socks (plain but with a Red Devil stitched on the back). New signings Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich) and Nani (Sporting Lisbon) were one club men, but not symbols of their club and so the change to a red shirt should not be too strange. The change should be smooth also for Anderson (FC Porto), who is too young to have made his name synonomous with a club's.

Hargreaves has yet to recieve his number, but shows off his jersey with the new official Premiership lettering.

Inter Milan released images of their new Centenary away kit.





Inter signed experienced Honduran striker Suazo, and are looking to sign the young Brazilian Pato, also a striker.

Valencia introduced their new kits for next season. The away jersey has changed from black to orange, with a raised collar; their home kit is the same but with a polo collar.





Liverpool changed their away and 3rd kits. Their motto is "Worn with Passion. Identify yourself." The new away kits are so boring, their motto should be, "You'll need some identification when you wear this jersey because it's so boring that nobody will be able to tell you damn Scousers apart-- but they're better than the yellow, right?" Oh! I know! Maybe they made their kits from exciting to boring to reflect the change of striker from Luis Garcia to Fernando Torres!



Chelsea made their away kits a little more exciting.

Highlighter yellow shirts, highlighter-accented pants. Well, it looks scary all right. Almost as scary as their ads with the scarily tall and large and imposing trio of Drogba, JT and Michael Ballack running at you...

Now all Chelsea players wear their kits the same. Tight sleeves with shirt form fitting and tucked neatly into short, thigh hugging adidas shorts.

What on EARTH will new signing Claudio Pizarro do?!


Arsenal made changes to their kits, with some sort of historical meaning that I don't know enough about to write about.

Oh dear, they've cut Thierry out of this one.

I can't get over Fabregas looking all stoic and everything...

Atletico Madrid has a slightly new home kit and an all blue away jersey.

And a new model for their shirts. Younger, will-be-better, and cuter, if I do say so myself. Luis Garcia will look good in anything (he pulled off the yellow Liverpool shirt, did he not?) and anything is better than the horrible yellow of Villareal that Diego Forlan used to wear.

Bayern's kit now looks like a Gap rugby polo to ensure that Phillip Lahm,Bastian Schweinsteiger, Lukas Podolski and new signings Franck Ribery and Luca Toni will look as dorky as ever.


Real Madrid has changed their sponsor from Siemens to BWin. I liked their kits a lot last season, but there is actually no way to make a Real Madrid shirt look bad.



The best change that I have seen is that of Barcelona and their away jersey. Gone is the orange for a beautiful turquoise blue shirt with lime green accents. Perhaps they realized Henry's skin tone would clash with their orange and flourecent yellow away kits.



They're gorgeous. And Abidal and Henry will look wonderful in them. Hopefully Eto'o will stay, as well, because he'll look nice in them, too.