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Copa America Centenario Final: Chile beats Argentina on penalties, again

If there was ever going to be a victim of CONMEBOL's decision to have a Copa America one year after its last Copa America it was Chile. Currently (the tournament adjusts its timing with reliable fequency), the South American continental champion is identified every four years. At least, it has been that way since 2007. Brazil got four years to call itself Copa America champ after winning the 2007 tournament; Uruguay was CONMEBOL champion for four years after winning in 2011; Chile won its first Copa America - on home soil, no less - in 2015, and scarcely got 12 months to enjoy it before being asked to head to the USA to defend the title.