Olympics Test-Event - 2016 South American Championship

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This weakend, March 5th and 6th, Rio de Janeiro will receive the Olympics Test-Event. The competition chosen for this is the 2016 South American Women's Championship, in which Brazil will attempt its 11th unbeaten title (Brazil has 10 South American titles, all of them without a single defeat... an amazing record).

The event's purpose is to test the new stadium in Deodoro and all the logistics. However, the stadium construction is delayed and what happened? The Rio 2016 commitee decided to host the competition with NO public and NO broadcast!!!! Ridiculously sad. At least the press will be allowed to enter. I will be there.

Brazil:
Amanda Boneti Ricci – Desterro
Beatriz Futuro Muhlbauer – Niterói
Bruna Pamela Lotufo – Band Saracens
Edna Santini – São José
Franciny Alves Amaral – Curitiba
Haline Leme Scatrut – Curitiba
Julia Albino Sardá – Desterro
Juliana Esteves Santos – Band Saracens
Luiza Gonzales da Costa Campos – Charrua
Paula Harumi Ishibashi – SPAC
Patricia Anne Bodeman Campos – Delta
Raquel Cristina Kochhann – Charrua



Grupo A: Brasil, Venezuela, Uruguai e Peru

Grupo B: Colômbia, Argentina, Chile e Paraguai



Sábado, dia 5 de março

10h00 – Brasil x Peru

10h22 – Venezuela x Uruguai

10h44 – Colômbia x Chile

11h06 – Argentina x Paraguai



12h30 – Brasil x Uruguai

12h52 – Venezuela x Peru

13h14 – Colômbia x Paraguai

13h36 – Argentina x Chile



16h00 – Brasil x Venezuela

16h22 – Uruguai x Peru

16h44 – Colômbia x Argentina

17h06 – Paraguai x Chile

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This will be the 12th South American Women's Championship. Brazil hosted it 5 times (2 in Rio de Janeiro), with 2016 being the 6th time (the 3rd in Rio!). Argentina and Chile hosted it twice, while Uruguay and Venezuela hosted once.

The 2nd strongest team in the continent, Colombia, never played at home the competition!

In 2015, in Santa Fe (Argentina), Brazil hasn't played, because the South American Women's Championship was also de Olympic Qualy. Pretty strange to not allow the title holders to defend their title. Colombia won it and got their first title.

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Apparently there is a Dutch player in the Colombian squad. I don't have a link as I read it in a magazine, and I can't remember her name so I am not being very helpful. But if you see a squad listing you could probably pick out her name.

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About Brazil's record in South America:

- vs Venezuela, 10 matches, 10 Brazilian victories. Last time Venezuela scored a try against Brazil was in 2004!

- vs Uruguay, 9 matches, 8 Brazilian victories. Uruguay is the only one to have beaten Brazil, but it wasn't in the South American Championship, it was in the 2011 Valentin Martinez tournament, in Montevideo (7-5);

- vs Peru, 7 matches, 7 Brazilian victories, Peru NEVER scored a try;

- vs Colombia, 8 matches, 8 Brazilian victories. Colombia scored just 1 try, in 2012 (34-5);

- vs Argentina, 18 matches, 18 Brazilian victories. Closest score: Brazil 24-12 Argentina, in 2013, in Rio (I was there, breathtaking!)

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It is somewhat debatable whether the 2011 Valentin Martinez counts - almost certainly not a full-strength Brazilian team

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Saturday

10h00 – Brasil 59 x 00 Peru

10h22 – Venezuela 31 x 12 Uruguai

10h44 – Colômbia 22 x 00 Chile

11h06 – Argentina 32 x 00 Paraguai



12h30 – Brasil 40 x 00 Uruguai

12h52 – Venezuela 19 x 07 Peru

13h14 – Colômbia 32 x 00 Paraguai

13h36 – Argentina 41 x 00 Chile



16h00 – Brasil 22 x 00 Venezuela

16h22 – Uruguai 20 x 05 Peru

16h44 – Colômbia 15 x 19 Argentina

17h06 – Paraguai 10 x 05 Chile



Standings

Grupo A: 1 Brasil, 2 Venezuela, 3 Uruguai, 4 Peru

Grupo B: 1 Argentina, 2 Colômbia, 3 Paraguai, 4 Chile



Sunday

10h00 – Brasil x Chile

10h22 – Colômbia x Uruguai

10h44 – Venezuela x Paraguai

11h06 – Argentina x Peru

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Sunday

QF

10h00 – Brasil 41 x 00 Chile

10h22 – Colômbia 36 x 05 Uruguai

10h44 – Venezuela 17 x 00 Paraguai

11h06 – Argentina 38 x 00 Peru



Bowl SF

12h30 – Chile 12 x 07 Uruguai

12h52 – Paraguai 19 x 12 Peru


Cup SF

13h14 – Brasil 31 x 00 Colômbia

13h36 -Venezuela 05 x 22 Argentina


Finals

16h00 – Uruguai 05 x 15 Peru – Shield

16h22 – Chile 00 x 22 Paraguai – Bowl

16h44 – Colômbia 14 x 00 Venezuela – Plate

17h06 – Brasil 27 x 05 Argentina – Cup



Brazil 11 times South American Champions. All of them unbeaten. 58 matches of invencibility. Just 1 try conceded this year, in the final.

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This image from the second match of the tournament has been doing the rounds: