An early goal of the transandino combination was a lot of ballast for the national game that he sought throughout the party to discount and match without success. Anyway, it was a great tournament for our world players who bring home the silver presea in the pre-India World Cup 2023.

Asunción, 11 October 2022. - It was a party worthy of a final. He had everything: Emotion, surrender, goals and controversy. And there was also a lack of things, like a little more luck, that Chile deserved in this great final that ended up giving in for 1-3 to Argentina.

The feeling is bitter at the end. It was the general comment of the protagonists. But not because of a hard defeat, because it wasn't, but because it remains in the palate the taste that it was fought equally in the face of a world-class selection and at least have stretched the end to a definition.

When they were just three minutes off the game, the Argentine Ferrero opened the account, which was a hard shot to the mood of the "Shit.": After that, it took a lot of time to go out with the same energy as when going out on the court to seek equality. Then, bad luck - two short lost corners - among other incidents of the encounter, prevented us from being able to discount soon or even. At 21 'Capurro put the 2-0; four minutes from the final Valenzuela put the 2-1 for Chile, but it was late. Delivered to the attack, Argentina closed the match via Matias Rey.

"I feel we were close, we opened up at first, but then we managed to close it. Looking at it in a cold way we put the party right, but it is defined by details like short corners and certain charges, but that's it. We must trust the arbitrators," said Andrés Pizarro after the party.

Raimundo Valenzuela, for his part, stated that "we are sad for the result, we were coming for the gold. We must clean up a number of things from this tournament because it is the floor to continue building what is coming from the World Cup and the Pan Americans." And he adds something key: "The gap with Argentina has been gradually cutting, we can really compete, keep the parties closed, these are small steps for our next challenges."

Finally, Fernando Renz, our proud team Chile flag in the ODESUR, signed that "we wanted the gold medal, we looked for it at all times, but we started with two mistakes that cost us to go soon 0-2. We had the match closed and even within everything the same in the second and third quarters, while in the fourth we already managed to put a goal, but unfortunately a video reference failed us against and defines the party."

Now, the selected people return to their activities and then focus 100% on India's 2023 Men's World Cup, which will take place between January 13 and 29, 2023 in Odisha.

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