{"id":38389,"date":"2024-07-11T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38389"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:25:18","slug":"colombia-beats-uruguay-to-reach-first-copa-america-final-in-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/11\/colombia-beats-uruguay-to-reach-first-copa-america-final-in-23-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Beats Uruguay To Reach First Copa America Final In 23 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Uruguay in the Copa America 2024 semifinals, advancing to their third final in history.<br \/>\nThe last time Colombia reached the Copa America final was in 2001 which they went on to win.<br \/>\nThe only goal of the game came from a Jefferson Lerma\u2019s header off a corner by James Rodriguez in the 39th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s Daniel Mu\u00f1oz received a red card just before halftime.<br \/>\nMateus Uribe almost doubled the lead for Colombia four minutes into stoppage time but his effort hit the goalkeeper and the post.<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, emotions boiled over as players from both sides clashed on the pitch.<br \/>\nThe brawl went even further with some Uruguay players, including star Darwin Nu\u00f1ez, even venturing into the stands to confront fans.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s path to the final has been remarkable, extending their unbeaten streak to a national record 28 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Uruguay in the Copa America 2024 semifinals, advancing to their third final in history. The last time Colombia reached the Copa America final was in 2001 which they went on to win. The only goal of the game came from a Jefferson Lerma\u2019s header off a corner by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1174],"class_list":["post-38389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-colombia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38391,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38389\/revisions\/38391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}