August 23, 2024, 1:05 PM
August 23, 2024, 1:05 PM
For the first time in the history of the South American Under-17 Men’s Futsal Championship, Bolivia will play the semifinals and this will be thanks to the results that were obtained on Thursday and that favoured them to advance to the next round. On Saturday, in Luque (Paraguay), they will seek to qualify for the final against the current champion, Argentina.
Thursday was a day of rest for the Verde and was waiting to see if they would make it into the top four teams in the competition.
Thanks to their victories over Paraguay (5-3) and Ecuador (9-6) They were second in Group A with six points and had to hope that both Paraguay and Colombia failed to score in their respective matches on Thursday, and that was what happened.
Ecuador defeated Colombia 3-2 and Brazil defeated host Paraguay 6-0.
With this, the canarinha was first with a perfect score by achieving 12 points and Behind was Bolivia, which finished with 6, the same as Paraguay, but the Verde qualified for the semi-finals thanks to their better goal difference (-2 against -3).
They completed the group Ecuador and Colombia (both with 3).
The B series ended as follows: Argentina (12), Venezuela (9), Chile (6), Uruguay and Peru (both with 1).
This Friday is a day of rest For all teams, the semi-finals and matches to determine seventh to tenth place will be played on Saturday, according to the approved schedule of matches.
Bolivia will face the leader of B, Argentinawhile Brazil will rival Venezuela.
In the short history of this international competition, the Verde For the first time, she made it into the top four selections.
In 2016 this tournament was born and Brazil was the champion, as in 2018, while in 2022 the winner was Argentina, which was runner-up in the first two editions.
The third and fourth place in those tournaments were distributed between Venezuela, Peru and Colombia.
