lThe Colombian National Team got rid of Costa Rica’s defensive approach and with an extraordinary performance, won 3-0 this Friday in Glendale, Arizona, to ensure qualification for the quarterfinals of the Copa América 2024.
Since Argentine Néstor Lorenzo came to manage the team, in June 2022, Colombia has not lost a game.
There are already 22 under his command, plus three others from his predecessors: two with Reinaldo Rueda, at the close of the failed qualifying round for the World Cup in Qatar, and one with Héctor Cárdenas, who directed, as manager, a friendly against Saudi Arabia.
Of those 25 games, Colombia won 20 and drew five. Eight of those matches were official (six in qualifying and two in the Copa América) and the rest were preparation games.
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Brazil’s historical record that Colombia equaled this Friday
The victory against Costa Rica left an important mark from a statistical point of view: For the first time in history, Colombia wins ten consecutive matches. The most he had achieved was seven consecutive victories, on two occasions: 1988-89 and 2001.
That mark, according to Spanish statistician Alexis Martín Tamayo, better known as @2010MisterChip, becomes a historic record for CONMEBOL: it equals the highest number of consecutive victories, held by Brazil. Colombia surpassed the record of nine consecutive victories held by the national teams of Argentina and Peru.
Since when has the Colombian National Team not lost?
The last defeat of the Colombian senior team was on February 1, 2022, when they lost 1-0 against Argentina, with a goal by Lautaro Martínez, at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium in Córdoba, in the qualifiers for Qatar.
Colombia, with its place already secured for the quarterfinals, will face Brazil in the closing of the first phase of the Copa América, this Tuesday, at 8 pm, at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (California).
Beyond the unbeaten record, the goal of the national team is to fight for the continental title, which it has only achieved once, in 2001, precisely when it had achieved its best streak of consecutive victories. In that edition of the Cup, which Colombia played at home, it won all the games and did not concede any goals.
Colombia won its first Copa América in 2001.
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