{"id":65467,"date":"2019-07-08T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=65467"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:18:55","slug":"brazil-win-copa-america-despite-jesus-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/brazil-win-copa-america-despite-jesus-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil win Copa America despite Jesus dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ten-man Brazil held on to win the Copa America on home soil despite Gabriel Jesus\u2019s dismissal with a 3-1 victory over Peru.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus scored the decisive goal after a penalty from Peru captain Paolo Guerrero canceled out Everton\u2019s opener for hosts Brazil at Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Maracana stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A last-minute penalty from substitute Richarlison sealed a win for Brazil which handed the South American giants their ninth Copa triumph and first since 2007.Jesus\u2019s evening went sour 20 minutes from time as he was sent off for a second booking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Manchester City striker was in tears as he left the field, making obscene hand gestures, angrily kicking a water bottle and almost knocking over the VAR booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, after a minute\u2019s silence was held for bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto who died on Saturday underdogs Peru made a confident start and didn\u2019t appear overawed by either their opponents or the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it quickly became apparent that they were up against more accomplished players.\u201cIt was a game in which they took advantage of our mistakes and turned them all into goals,\u201d said Peru\u2019s Edison Flores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru coach Ricardo Gareca had said on Saturday they needed to prevent Brazil from dominating possession, but that was easier said than done.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-man Brazil held on to win the Copa America on home soil despite Gabriel Jesus\u2019s dismissal with a 3-1 victory over Peru. Jesus scored the decisive goal after a penalty from Peru captain Paolo Guerrero canceled out Everton\u2019s opener for hosts Brazil at Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Maracana stadium. A last-minute penalty from substitute Richarlison sealed [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65469,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65467\/revisions\/65469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}