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15-497: The club was founded on November 19, 1955 as Lister Rossel (a famous local pediatrician and amateur sportsman). In 1974 the club name was changed to Deportes Linares . The year 1992 the team's name was changed again, to be known as Frutilinares . A new name, this time Linares Unido , was given to the club in 2006. And finally, in 2011, the club took back their current name, Deportes Linares . This article about sports in Chile

30-454: A governing body to facilitate the organization of the tournament. Thus, CONMEBOL was founded on 9 July 1916 under the initiative of Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez , but approved by the football associations of Argentina , Brazil , Chile and Uruguay . The first Constitutional Congress on 15 December of that same year, which took place in Montevideo , ratified the decision. Over the years,

45-457: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a South American football club is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CONMEBOL The South American Football Confederation ( Spanish : Con federación Suda me ricana de Fút bol ; Portuguese : Con federação Sul-A me ricana de Fute bol ), known by the acronym CONMEBOL ( / ˈ k ɒ n m ɪ b ɒ l / KON -mib-ol ) or CSF ,

60-729: Is an annual match between the past year's winners of the Copa Libertadores and the winners of the Copa Sudamericana (previously the winners of the Supercopa Libertadores) and came into being in 1989. The Intercontinental Cup was jointly organized with UEFA between the Copa Libertadores and the UEFA Champions League winners. Last updated: 9 January 2022 Last updated on: 12 March 2019 – [1] Men's update: 31 January 2022. For each tournament,

75-692: Is the Copa América , which started in 1916. The Copa America is the only continental competition in which teams from a totally different continent and confederation can be invited to participate. CONMEBOL usually selects and invites a couple of teams from the AFC or CONCACAF to participate in the Copa America. Japan and Qatar were invited to participate in the 2019 edition of the Copa America. CONMEBOL also runs national competitions at Under-20 , Under-17 and Under-15 levels. For women's national teams, CONMEBOL operates

90-521: Is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA 's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque , Paraguay. CONMEBOL is responsible for the organization and governance of South American football's major international tournaments. With 10 member football associations, it has the fewest members of all

105-578: The Copa América Femenina for senior national sides, as well as Under-20 and Under-17 championships. In futsal , there is the Copa América de Futsal and Campeonato Sudamericano de Futsal Sub-20 . The Campeonato Sudamericano Femenino de Futsal is the women's equivalent to the men's tournament. CONMEBOL also runs the two main club competitions in South America: the Copa Libertadores

120-548: The "Caribbean" rimlands. With ten member nations, CONMEBOL is the smallest and the only fully continental land-based FIFA confederation (no insular countries or associates from different continents). As of 14 September 2021 There are sovereign states or dependencies in South America which are not affiliated with CONMEBOL but are members of other confederations or do not have affiliation with any other confederations at all. The main competition for men's national teams

135-598: The CONMEBOL President Juan Ángel Napout was also arrested. Federaci%C3%B3n Venezolana de F%C3%BAtbol The Venezuelan Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Venezolana de Fútbol or FVF) is the governing body of football in Venezuela. It was founded in 1925 and affiliated in 1952. It is a member of CONMEBOL as well as FIFA , and is in charge of the Venezuela national football team . Venezuela

150-497: The confederations in FIFA. CONMEBOL national teams have won ten FIFA World Cups (Brazil five, Argentina three and Uruguay two) and CONMEBOL clubs have won 22 Intercontinental Cups and four FIFA Club World Cups . Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have won two Olympic gold medals each. The World Cup qualifiers of CONMEBOL have been described as the "toughest qualifiers in the world" for their simple round-robin system, entry of some of

165-572: The flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown. On 27 May 2015, several CONMEBOL leaders were arrested in Zürich, Switzerland by Swiss police and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of corruption, money laundering, and racketeering. Those swept up in the operation include former CONMEBOL presidents Eugenio Figueredo and Nicolás Léoz and several football federations presidents such as Carlos Chávez and Sergio Jadue . On 3 December 2015,

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180-617: The other football associations in South America joined, with the last being Venezuela in 1952. Guyana , Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana , while geographically in South America, are not part of CONMEBOL. Consisting of a former British territory, a former Dutch territory and a French territory, they are part of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) , mainly due to historical, cultural, and sporting reasons as members of

195-527: The top national teams in the world, leveling of the weaker national teams, climate and geographic conditions, strong home stands and passionate supporters. Juan Ángel Napout (Paraguay) was the president of CONMEBOL until 3 December 2015 when he was arrested in a raid in Switzerland as part of the U.S. Justice Department's bribery case involving FIFA . Wilmar Valdez (Uruguay) was interim president until 26 January 2016 when Alejandro Domínguez (Paraguay)

210-668: Was elected president. The Vice presidents are Ramón Jesurún (Colombia), Laureano González (Venezuela) and Arturo Salah (Chile). In 1916, the first edition of the "Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol" (South-American Football Championship), later known as the " Copa América ", was contested in Argentina to commemorate the centenary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence . The four participating associations of that tournament gathered in Buenos Aires in order to officially create

225-648: Was first held in 1960 and the Copa Sudamericana was launched by CONMEBOL in 2002 as an indirect successor to the Supercopa Libertadores (begun in 1988). A third competition, the Copa CONMEBOL , started in 1992 and was abolished in 1999. In women's football, CONMEBOL also conducts the Copa Libertadores Femenina for club teams. The competition was first held in 2009. The Recopa Sudamericana

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