Today sunday 25th of July ends the "Soccer Championship of America" PERU 2004 National Soccer Teams from Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Brasil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela played in seven peruvian stadiums from north to south Peru.

With this championship touristic operators expected to come Peru around 30,000 tourists and incomes of around 8 million dollars. Besides, around 135 cities around the world have been watching this championship with an audience of around 600 million of soccer fans. The best news come with the modernization of seven stadiums in Lima, Cuzco, Arequipa, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Piura and Tacna, and the free entry of around 18,000 peruvian poor kids to all the matches.

Saddly, Peruvian national soccer team wasn't in the final match in spite of the fact, peruvians are soccer fans so the stadium will be empty today. The championat started in July 6th with an outstanding open ceremony and today will be closed with the final match of the national soccer teams of [b]Brasil vs Argentina[/b] a final that have not being happened since 1993. The symbol of this cup is the "Chaski" (an ancient messanger or postman of the Incas era) and today we will expect a nice close ceremony with the hymn of the championship in the voice of peruvian pop/rock grammy nominated singer "Gianmarco", the colorfull of Peruvian traditions and the presence of Joseph Blatter ( World Soccer Association President), Pele, and other soccer represetantavives from around the globe.

You know soccer is a feeling and makes people be happy around a ball and a match to forgive in 90 minutes the bad news that govern our blue world.

¡Viva la Copa America - Peru 2004 !

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