Messi Leads Argentina to Copa America Final Against Colombia
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00:00Let me ask you about Messi and Argentina.
00:05They're in the Copa final against a team that's on fire in Colombia that's won 28 in a row
00:11and they got it done last night against Uruguay, won nothing, albeit afterwards some ugliness
00:16on the pitch with players fighting and then it went up into the stands like the malice
00:21at the palace with all the Uruguayans fighting to protect their family and friends and kids
00:28against some crazy Colombian fans that were really overwhelming them.
00:33Yeah, a terrible scene after the game.
00:36We still don't really know what happened, what precipitated it all, but it was ugly
00:42regardless and certainly Comrabal, the South American federation, is going to have to investigate
00:50that and figure out what happened and then decide whether or not discipline is necessary
00:55for any of the players involved and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were facing something
01:00based on, you go back to the malice at the palace and I don't know that you'll see the
01:06kind of punishment in this case that we saw then where the suspensions were so protracted,
01:13but I'd be surprised once you enter that, you cross that barrier, you've put yourself
01:19in an untenable position as an athlete.
01:22Just as we saw a pitch invasion in the England game, I believe it was, that I watched the
01:29other night, or yesterday afternoon I should say, there was a pitch invasion in one of
01:34the semifinal games that I watched and they had to track down that person, so you're not
01:41supposed to be on the other side of that line, so we'll see what happens, but the game itself
01:46on Sunday, Sunday night Colombia versus Argentina, couldn't have asked for a more compelling
01:54final in the Copa America after what's been a pretty messy tournament, we mentioned what
01:58happened off the field, but on the field it's been a wreck too, not necessarily in terms
02:02of the soccer, but in terms of the officiation and adjudication of the tournament has been
02:07an absolute mess, but now we get the two best teams and I was in Brazil 10 years ago when
02:14James Rodriguez exploded as a player, he scored a couple of goals in around a 16 game
02:21against Uruguay, became an absolute sensation during his time there, and then the last decade
02:28or so as a club player has not gone well, but now we're being reminded of why he was
02:35that sensation of the 2014 World Cup, he's now the sensation of the 2024 Copa America,
02:41even more so than Messi, who was phenomenal the other night when he had to be, but hadn't
02:47really put that much into the group stage, so now we see those two square off, and Argentina's
02:54best soccer I think is still better than Colombia's best, but Colombia may be better at keeping
02:59you, in this case Argentina being you, from playing your best.