Top 10 Copa America - Tournament fun facts

One has to do with the amount of games led by an Argentine coach.

A day to start play the Copa America 2015 Chile, reviewing the history and statistics of competition left to denuded some other interesting curiosities that is always good to take them into account.

Here a review of these numbers:

1) it is the average of 3.28 goal per game in 725 games played

2) Seven games were defined in an extra match:

a) Brazil 1 vs. Uruguay 0, Rio de Janeiro, 1919

b) Brazil 3 vs. Paraguay 0, Rio de Janeiro, 1922

c) Argentina 2 vs. Brazil 0, Buenos Aires, 1937

d) Brazil 7 vs. Paraguay 0, Rio de Janeiro, 1949

e) Paraguay 3 vs. Brasil 2, Lima, 1953

f) Peru 1 vs. Colombia 0, Caracas, 1975

g) Paraguay 0 vs. Chile 0, Buenos Aires, 1979

3) 2381, goals scored in the tournament

4) In 1927 Peru reached the highest average goal per game: 6.17, product of 37 points in 6 games.

5) lowest goal average in Brazil 1922 was 2.00, with 22 goals in 11 games.

6) 15 countries played at least once America's Cup: the ten CONMEBOL teams, plus Mexico, USA, Costa Rica, Honduras and Japan (in 2015 Jamaica will add).

7) The National Stadium in Lima, Peru, is where most games were played in history, with 76 games.

8) 12-0. It is the most lopsided win in the history of the America's Cup in 1942.

9) Milestones goals:

a) one-José Piendibene (Uruguay) vs. Chile, in 1916

b) 100- Juan Heguy (Uruguay) vs. Chile, 1922

c) 500- José Moreno (Argentina) vs. Ecuador, 1942

d) 1000- Enrique Hormazábal (Chile) vs. Ecuador, 1955

e) 1500- Nelinho (Brazil) vs. Argentina, 1975

f) 2000 Luis Hernandez (Mexico) vs. Costa Rica, 1997

g) 2381- Diego Forlan (Uruguay) vs. Paraguay, 2011

10) The Argentine Guillermo Stábille is the coach with more games, with 44 games.