If there is any doubt that the Liberators cup It is one of the most difficult tournaments in the world, the example is that of the new millennium, in South America there is no club that can do that mark a dynasty, as in the past, when there were teams that won it very regularly. This Saturday, Palm trees Y Santos they face each other in the finals of the oldest soccer tournament in the Southern Cone.
Santos hasn’t won for nine years, Palmeiras, 20
Taking into account that the Last This Saturday corresponds to the 2020 edition, the title contenders have a long time without lifting the cup, 2011 was the last time that Santos won the game with no more or less than Neymar as the main figure and beating the Peñarol from Uruguay finally.
What if Santos He hasn’t won it in almost 10 years, not to mention Palm trees; the Verdao does not win the Libertadores over two decades, since the last time was in 1999 when he won the final with Deportivo Cali from Colombia.
No ‘dynasties’ in South America
Take into account the last 20 years, there are clubs that have already reached it one or more times, but none of them managed to win with real regularity.
Boca Juniors is perhaps the one closest to a “hegemony” in the Libertadoresas he won it in the new millennium 2000, 2001 (against Cruz Azul), 2003 and 2007. However, 13 long years have passed without the Xeneize can win it again and stay very close in the 2012 and 2018 editions (the one he lost River Plate).
River Plate, multi-champion of the Libertadores in the second decade of the 2000s he won it in 2015 (to Tigres) and in 2018 (a Boca Juniors). However, it took 19 years for that to happen, as he won it before those titles in the already distant 1996.
Flamengo, who won it in 2019, took 38 years to get it back, having previously obtained it in 1981. Guild It took him 22 years to win it again in 2017, since his last was in 1995 Inter from Porto Alegre He only got it twice: 2010 and 2006 (the one who beat Chivas).
Other cases such as Olympiad (2002), Agree Caldas (2004), Sao Paulo (2005), League of Quito (2008), Students (2009), National athletic (2016), San Lorenzo (2014), Atlético Mineiro (2013) and Corinthians (2012), were given the title in that year respectively, but have not been able to appear afterwards.
Independent, the only King of Cups ‘Liberator’
Historically, there is only one team that can really be considered “King of cupsAnd that’s Independiente de Avellaneda, a nickname earned by all laws, because as far as Libertadores is concerned is the one who has the most South America (seven), which he won in the years 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984; that is, 20 years dominate the southern cone and the main club tournament. However, he has accumulated 36 years without obtaining it again.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.