A capsule look at each team in the 2024 Copa America: GROUP A Argentina Best Finish: titles in 1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1959, 1991, 1993, and 2021. ___ Peru Best finish: titles in 1939 and 1975 Coach: Jorge Fossati Key players: Pedro Gallese, Luis Advíncula, Gianluca Lapadula WHAT TO KNOW: Fossati became Peru coach …
Sergio Gómez, a shop owner in Buenos Aires, spends his days behind an empty counter, one nearly as empty as the large refrigerators in which he used to freeze meat. Mr Gómez and his wife are among a large group of Argentines who say their economic situation is worse now than a year ago as a consequence of a series …
Kristina Provencio kneels Monday next to a street memorial near the home where Bishop David G. O’Connell was killed in Hacienda Heights. “Charging Mr. Medina will never repair the tremendous harm that was caused by this callous act.” O’Connell was found dead Saturday in his bedroom with multiple gunshot wounds, Gascón said. “By all counts, Bishop O’Connell was a saint …
“He was a good priest, a good bishop and a man of peace,” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gómez said of David O’Connell. “He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who described O’Connell as a longtime friend. “He knew that serving God meant serving man.” O’Connell, 69, …
Mara Gómez was signed recently by Villa San Carlos in the first division of women’s football league in Argentina. I’d kick the ball at the goal and it would go anywhere.” Gómez spent years playing in local women’s leagues in Buenos Aires province before being signed recently by Villa San Carlos in the first division. Argentina’s football federation has no …
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