JOHN LYONS on how the hosts claimed the Copa America – and finally bagged their first piece of silverware...

Winning smile: Alexis Sanchez shows off the trophy

BEFORE Manchester’s City recent successes, the joke was that robbers broke into their trophy room and stole everything in it – police were searching for two men carrying a light blue carpet…
The same could be said for Chile because prior to this summer’s Copa America on home turf, they had won a big fat nothing in their entire history. Trophy room? Trophy cabinet? Not required.
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