If there is any doubt that the Copa Liberators is one of the most difficult tournaments on the planet, the show is that from the new millennium, in South America there is no club that can mark a dynasty, As it used to be in the past, when there were teams that won it very, very regularly. This Saturday, Palm trees i Santos they face the Final of the most rancid football tournament in the Southern Cone.
Sants is nine years old without winning it, Palmeiras, 20
Given that the Final this Saturday corresponds to the 2020 edition, the contenders for the title have a long time without lifting the Cup. In 2011, it was the last time that Santos won the pageant having no more and no less than a Neymar as his main figure and defeating the Peñarol of Uruguay in the Final.
What if Santos he’s almost 10 years old from not winning it, or what to say about Palm trees; the Verdao does not win the Liberators for more than two decades, since the last time was in 1999, when he won the Final in the ‘ Cali Sports Center of Colombia.
No ‘dynasties’ in South America
Given the last 20 years, There are clubs that have achieved this on one or more occasions, however none of them have been able to win it with true regularity.
mouth Juniors is perhaps the closest thing to a “hegemony” in the Liberators, Since in the new millennium, he won it in 2000, 2001 (The Blue Cross), 2003 and 2007. However, 13 long years have passed without the xeneize can win it again, staying very close in the 2012 and 2018 editions (which he lost with River Plate).
River Plate, Multi – champion of the Liberators in the second decade of the 2000, it gained it in 2015 (In Tigers) and in 2018 (a mouth Juniors). However, for this to happen it took 19 years, as before these titles, he won it in the distant 1996.
Flamengo, Which won it in 2019, took 38 years to recover, as it had previously achieved in 1981. Guilds it took 22 years to win it back in 2017, as its last one had been in 1995, while Inter of Porto Alegre he only got it twice: 2010 and 2006 (which he won in Chivas).
Other cases such as Olympics (2002), Once Caldas (2004), Sao Paulo (2005), Quito League (2008), students (2009), National Athletic (2016), Sant Llorenç (2014), Atlético Mineiro (2013) i Corinthians (2012), got the title in that year respectively, but then have not been able to figure again.
Independent, the only King of Cups ‘Liberator’
Historically, there is only one team that can truly be considered as “King of Cups“And this is Independent of Avellaneda, a nickname that was earned by all laws, because as far as Liberators refers, is the most has of all South America (Seven), which he won in 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984; that is, 20 years dominating the southern cone and its most important club tournament. However, she accumulates 36 years without getting it again.
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