If there is any doubt that Liberators’ Cup It is one of the most difficult tournaments on the planet, the sample is the one of the new millennium, in South America there is no club that can marks a dynasty, as in the past, when there were teams that won it very regularly. This Saturday, Palm trees Yes Santos they face each other in the final of the oldest football tournament in the southern cone.
Santos is nine years old without winning it, Palmeiras, 20 years old
Given that Final This Saturday corresponds to the 2020 edition, the title contenders have a long time without lifting the Cup. In 2011, it was the last time Santos won the contest having neither more nor less than Neymar as the main figure and winning Peñarol from Uruguay finally.
And if Santos He hasn’t won in almost 10 years, not to mention Palm trees; Verdao does not win Liberators for more than two decades, since the last time was in 1999, when he won the Final of Deportivo Cali from Colombia.
There are no “dynasties” in South America
Considering the last 20 years, there are clubs that have touched him on one or more occasions, but none of them managed to win it with real regularity.
Boca Juniors is perhaps the one that comes closest to a “hegemony” in Liberators, since in the new millennium, he won it in 2000, 2001 (to Cruz Azul), 2003 and 2007. However, 13 long years have passed without Xeneize he can win it again, staying very close in the 2012 and 2018 editions (the one he lost with River Plate).
River Plate, multi-champion al Liberators in the second decade of the 2000s, he won it in 2015 (to Tigres) and in 2018 (A Boca Juniors). However, it took 19 years for this to happen, because before those titles, he won it in the distant 1996.
Flamengo, which won it in 2019, took 38 years to recover, since it had previously obtained it in 1981. Guild It took him 22 years to win it again in 2017, when his last one was in 1995, while Inter from Porto Alegre He only got it twice: 2010 and 2006 (the one that beat Chivas).
Other cases such as Olympics (2002), Once Caldas (2004), Sao Paulo (2005), Quito League (2008), Students (2009), National Athletic (2016), San Lorenzo (2014), Atlético Mineiro (2013) and Corinthians (2012), obtained that title that year, but subsequently could not reappear.
Independently, the only “Liberator” of the King of Cups
Historically, there is only one team that can truly be considered. “King of Cups“And this is Independiente de Avellaneda, a nickname won by all the laws, because in terms of Liberators he is worried, he is the one who has the most of all South America (seven), which he won in 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984; that is, 20 years dominating the southern cone and its most important club tournament. However, he accumulated 36 years without getting it again.
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