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[00:00:26] Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our América
[00:00:30] Deportiva, the program where we tell you the most
[00:00:33] relevant news from Latin American sports.
[00:00:35] Next, we will also tell you about the action in
[00:00:39] Argentina at the South American Games of Santa Fe 2026,
[00:00:43] where the Brazilian gymnastics team won
[00:00:47] the gold medal. We will also have men's volleyball from Cuba, which
[00:00:51] returns to the Olympic Games after 12
[00:00:55] years of absence. And on Venezuelan soil,
[00:00:59] the host team will face
[00:01:02] Brazil this Sunday in the dispute for the title of
[00:01:06] the South American Women's U-20 Futsal Championship. With this and much
[00:01:09] more, let's begin.
[00:01:13] we'll see how we continue. For the
[00:01:20] team and its Brazilian counterpart will face
[00:01:22] the dot on the
[00:01:41] and we begin with the Brazilian rhythmic gymnastics team, who won the gold multipolar world. The new era of
[00:01:44] medal at the South American Games in Santa Fe. This recently
[00:01:48] crowned Brazilian rhythmic gymnastics team, after winning the World
[00:01:51] Championship and qualifying for Los Angeles 2028, reaffirmed
[00:01:55] its dominance in the region by winning the gold medal in the
[00:01:59] overall competition. for teams at the South American Games in
[00:02:02] Santa Fe, Argentina, with a brilliant performance,
[00:02:06] the Brazilian gymnasts climbed to the top of the podium, totaling
[00:02:10] were closely watching the leader of 57. points, 27,800
[00:02:12] in five balls and
[00:02:15] 29,200 in the mixed routine,
[00:02:18] surpassing the Mexican delegation, which took the
[00:02:22] silver medal, and the host Argentina, which completed
[00:02:25] the podium by winning the bronze
[00:02:28] medal.
[00:02:33] And we have that the Venezuelan women's softball team became
[00:02:38] km in the center of undefeated champions in these third South American Games Santa Fe
[00:02:40] 2026 after decisively beating Brazil
[00:02:44] with a score of eight runs to zero in the grand
[00:02:48] final. So, throughout the entire tournament, the Venezuelan team
[00:02:51] showed absolute dominance, closing their
[00:02:54] impeccable participation with a brilliant shutout that
[00:02:58] sealed a historical performance. In this way, the "Criollas"
[00:03:01] added a valuable gold medal for the national delegation,
[00:03:05] consolidating all the talent that prevails in the
[00:03:09] discipline and the power of Venezuelan sports in the
[00:03:12] continental
[00:03:13] competition.
[00:03:17] Let's review then how that medal count is going.
[00:03:21] Brazil continues in first place with
[00:03:24] 160 medals in total, distributed
[00:03:28] in 63 gold.
[00:03:30] 56 silver and 41 bronze. Argentina,
[00:03:34] the host, strengthened its second place with 37 gold,
[00:03:38] 38 silver, 61 bronze for a total of
[00:03:41] 136 medals. Colombia remains in
[00:03:44] third place with 34 gold, 33
[00:03:47] silver, 29
[00:03:49] Championship which will be bronze for a total of 96. Venezuela, with its medals,
[00:03:53] is consolidating itself in fourth position with the gold medals
[00:03:58] murals in honor of Lionel Messi on won, because it has 26 gold, 26 silver, 27 bronze for a total of
[00:04:02] 79. Chile closes the top 5 with
[00:04:05] 76 medals in total, very close to Venezuela with
[00:04:09] 30 bronze, 23 silver and 23
[00:04:13] gold. And Peru climbed back to sixth
[00:04:16] place, taking that sixth place from Uruguay, recovering
[00:04:19] one more position. The Peruvian national
[00:04:22] team or country
[00:04:24] dignified game, I think we competed arrived in the sixth
[00:04:26] spot.
[00:04:30] fighting for that tie to try had broken the island's Olympic
[00:04:34] and the South American Games Santa Fe 2026 already have
[00:04:37] some controversial situations, okay, in Argentina, and one of
[00:04:40] them was the statements of Argentine judoka Agustina de
[00:04:44] Lucía. De Lucía won the silver medal in the -63 kg
[00:04:47] category of women's judo in Santa Fe
[00:04:51] 2026 after falling in the decisive fight against the
[00:04:54] Venezuelan Anriquelis Barrios at the Invencible Stadium in
[00:04:58] Rosario. This result also had a special significance for
[00:05:02] the 27-year-old athlete, as she was able to compete in front of her
[00:05:06] hometown crowd. However, Agustina de Lucía,
[00:05:09] after climbing to the podium, revealed that the government led by
[00:05:12] Javier Miley has been absent in her sports
[00:05:15] career, for which she did not recover the scholarship she lost after
[00:05:19] the Pan American Games and also stated that she will look
[00:05:22] for work starting this Monday, ending her
[00:05:26] participation in the games. So let's hear some of her
[00:05:29] statements.
[00:05:31] After the Pan American Games, when I lost the bronze,
[00:05:35] they took away my scholarship.
[00:05:38] I started looking for work, I started giving judo classes, I started living
[00:05:42] more by doing those things, you know? And it really
[00:05:45] complicated having the quality of training and quality of life
[00:05:49] because I was also going through a very dark
[00:05:52] time, I was very distressed by the result
[00:05:56] I got, you know? You have the bronze, you don't
[00:05:59] have the scholarship. And it was practically something like that they told
[00:06:03] me, yes, so well, that also took me out of the Olympic
[00:06:06] Games in Paris. I was well
[00:06:09] ranked, it was a decision that I really don't
[00:06:13] agree with, but well, it led me to be the voice I am today,
[00:06:17] you know, to value all the things I have, to recover the
[00:06:20] scholarship, not yet, no, so well,
[00:06:25] moment, on Monday I have to go look for a job
[00:06:28] like that, literally. Yes, yes, no, it's something
[00:06:32] I talked about with my partner, like, hey, focus,
[00:06:36] these two months, focus fully on this, and then when
[00:06:39] it passes, we'll see how we do everything. Let's hope that this
[00:06:43] judoka can recover her scholarship after having reached the
[00:06:46] podium in these South American Games 2026 held in her
[00:06:50] native Argentina. We move on to other disciplines because we have that Colombian
[00:06:53] cyclist Sebastián Castaño won the fourth stage of the
[00:06:57] Vuelta Mérida 2026. The day featured a demanding mountainous
[00:07:01] route of 129.3
[00:07:03] km between the town of La Playa in the Rivas municipality
[00:07:07] and the historic Bolívar Plaza in the city of Mérida.
[00:07:11] So, during the journey, the peloton rode at high speed,
[00:07:14] maintaining a pursuit pace throughout the stage. In the last
[00:07:17] kilometers, Castaño strategically took advantage of the fact that the other riders
[00:07:23] the general classification, also Colombian Wilson Peña, to launch
[00:07:26] a powerful attack, breaking away from the
[00:07:29] group and crossing the finish line with a time of 3 hours
[00:07:33] 10 minutes and 34 seconds, leading a
[00:07:36] podium that was completely, that was completely Colombian because the fifth and
[00:07:40] last stage of the Vuelta Mérida 2020. 6 is being
[00:07:43] disputed this Sunday, September 20, on a
[00:07:46] closed circuit of 120
[00:07:50] the Andean
[00:07:51] capital.
[00:07:58] We have that the Cuban men's volleyball team qualified for the Los Angeles
[00:08:02] 2028 Olympic Games after defeating Canada in the Norceca
[00:08:05] Confederation pre-Olympic tournament held in the city
[00:08:08] of Moncton. So the Cuban team got the
[00:08:12] only direct ticket from the region by winning this
[00:08:15] Saturday by three sets to one with partials of
[00:08:18] 25-21, 25, 23, 23-25
[00:08:22] and 25-22. Marlon Yan led the Cuban
[00:08:26] offense with 25 points, along with the great contribution
[00:08:29] of key figures like Miguel Ángel López and Robert
[00:08:32] Landi Simón. With this triumph, the
[00:08:35] Lions return to the highest event in world
[00:08:38] sports in this discipline after 12
[00:08:41] years of absence. Cuba had not competed in men's Olympic volleyball
[00:08:45] since the Rio de Janeiro 2026 edition
[00:08:48] in Brazil. In addition, with this historic
[00:08:52] classification, the team completes a perfect week,
[00:08:55] as they also recently secured their passage to the
[00:08:59] 2027 Volleyball World
[00:09:02] held in
[00:09:03] Poland.
[00:09:08] So, after the victory of the Cuban national team was confirmed, the
[00:09:11] president of this country, Miguel Díaz Canel, celebrated the feat through his
[00:09:15] social media. In a message, the president expressed the following: Cuban
[00:09:19] volleyball returns to the Olympic Games on Canadian
[00:09:22] soil against the same rival that once shattered
[00:09:25] our dream. This time there were no regrets.
[00:09:29] Ticket sealed for Los Angeles 2028,
[00:09:32] congratulations! So with these words, the president highlighted the
[00:09:36] triumph against the same opponent that in the past
[00:09:41] aspirations. Likewise, he highlighted the leadership and courage of the
[00:09:44] players to secure the historic
[00:09:47] qualification.
[00:09:55] We continue with more volleyball, but the men's team of this sport from
[00:09:59] Brazil secured its qualification for the 2027 World Championship in Poland
[00:10:02] after beating Venezuela 3-0 at the Maracanaciño gymnasium in
[00:10:06] Rio de Janeiro. So, marking its fourth
[00:10:09] consecutive victory in the South American
[00:10:12] Championship. Before more than 7,000
[00:10:16] spectators, the team led by Bernardinho
[00:10:20] won with partials of 25-19,
[00:10:23] 25-14 and...
[00:10:25] 25-19, highlighting the performance of Brian as the
[00:10:29] top scorer with 13 points. With this victory, the
[00:10:32] hosts guarantee at least second place in the
[00:10:35] tournament and are now preparing to face
[00:10:38] Argentina for the South American title and for that
[00:10:41] spot in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games,
[00:10:45] seeking to recover the crown they have historically dominated by winning
[00:10:49] 33 of the 35 editions
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[00:13:24] U-20 Women's Futsal 2026 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela,
[00:13:28] delivered highly demanding matches. In the placement
[00:13:31] matches, Peru defeated Paraguay to take ninth
[00:13:34] place, while Uruguay and Ecuador played to a four-goal
[00:13:38] draw, with seventh place decided in a penalty shootout
[00:13:42] with a 3-2 victory for the Charrúas. Subsequently,
[00:13:45] the semifinals were played. Brazil secured its qualification after
[00:13:49] beating Colombia 1-0 with another goal from
[00:13:53] Amazonas, who is consolidating herself as the top scorer of the tournament with
[00:13:57] seven goals. Both national team coaches
[00:14:00] analyzed the match. Many
[00:14:02] joys at this moment. It has been very tough, but we knew it
[00:14:06] could be like this, and in the end we have achieved our great
[00:14:09] objective. It was a game of details, no, we knew it would be
[00:14:13] difficult, but at the same time we worked a lot, we were able to
[00:14:16] rest and prepare for the game, the players did everything we agreed
[00:14:20] on and that also helped, even with pressure, even with
[00:14:23] noise, even with some actions that could take us out of the
[00:14:27] game, everyone was very focused, so it was
[00:14:30] positive. Yes, we knew we were facing a very
[00:14:34] strong, very powerful Brazil. I think they have
[00:14:37] shown it throughout the tournament. We know that
[00:14:40] all the structure they have, their professional tournament, they brought
[00:14:44] very professional players, but well, I think we played a
[00:14:49] in the best way and well, until the last second we were
[00:14:55] to take it a little further, but, as I told the
[00:14:58] girls, within the game there is defeat and
[00:15:02] it's worth it, it's worth it to lose this way, giving our hearts and
[00:15:05] obviously the desire and grit to defend the
[00:15:09] shield of our country. Despite the result, good, because I know
[00:15:13] I gave my best. The team and the game were very hand
[00:15:16] in hand, we could have won, but the best team doesn't
[00:15:19] always win, but the one who makes fewer mistakes and more shots, that's how games are, sport is very beautiful and
[00:15:23] at another time it will give us revenge, however, I recognize my team, coach
[00:15:27] Roberto
[00:15:31] Bruno who did a very good job with us, we were able to show it on the
[00:15:34] field and no, thank God for everything. And in the main event,
[00:15:38] Venezuela staged a historic comeback against Argentina, after
[00:15:42] being down 2-0 on the scoreboard, the Venezuelan
[00:15:45] team revived the match to beat
[00:15:48] the "Albiceleste" 3-2 and claim their spot in the coveted title
[00:15:52] match. Let's review the impressions from the match. It got complicated
[00:15:55] at times, but well, 2-0 in futsal, experience tells you that
[00:15:59] until the buzzer sounds, it's not over. I think we believed until the
[00:16:03] very end, we've been doing it in the games, we've played until the end and I think
[00:16:07] that... the result of this historic, this historic
[00:16:10] pass to the final, is the sacrifice, believing in the
[00:16:13] work, believing in your teammate, is believing
[00:16:17] that it was possible too. I think it's a
[00:16:20] source of pride for everyone,
[00:16:22] an incredible feeling, I really have no
[00:16:26] words to explain that feeling when I scored,
[00:16:29] when there was the second goal and that unexpected third goal and
[00:16:33] well, super happy, I'm very happy, very happy
[00:16:37] because we have taken Venezuela to the
[00:16:40] final and well, tomorrow we will face the match in the best
[00:16:43] way. I think it's a joy to know that so many people believe in
[00:16:47] us, that they know we are capable of great things, we held nothing back and
[00:16:50] that was the result. Everything is ready for this Sunday at the Bolivarian
[00:16:54] dome, the Venezuelan national
[00:16:58] each other in the grand final for the South American tournament cup. Cameras by
[00:17:01] Franklin Marcos, Gustavo Barcia, Telesur. And
[00:17:05] positive news continues for women's
[00:17:07] football in Venezuela, as the Vinotinto U-15 team won the
[00:17:11] gold medal in the CONMEBOL Evolución League tournament against
[00:17:15] local Paraguay, after 90 minutes tied at zero, everything
[00:17:19] was decided in a penalty shootout. In the match held
[00:17:22] at the Carfen stadium in
[00:17:26] Ipané, in that instance, Venezuela was more effective
[00:17:29] and decisive, scoring four goals to one for the Paraguayan
[00:17:33] team, relying on goalkeeper Roxandri Torres
[00:17:36] who saved two penalties at that moment. It should be noted that the
[00:17:40] Vinotinto women's U-15 team had finished the group stage in the
[00:17:44] northern zone as leaders with eight points after two
[00:17:47] victories against Peru and Ecuador and two draws against
[00:17:51] Brazil and Colombia, scoring three goals for and one
[00:17:55] against, surpassing in points their group
[00:17:59] selection against teams like Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and
[00:18:02] Peru.
[00:18:12] and Brazil said goodbye this weekend to the Women's U-20 World Cup
[00:18:15] after losing in the quarterfinals to the Spanish team. The European team
[00:18:19] made it to the semifinals of the event that is taking
[00:18:23] place in Poland, supported by a goal from the
[00:18:26] Real Madrid forward, Paula Comendador, in the
[00:18:30] 27th minute of the game, an attacker who became a
[00:18:33] heroine after taking a shot near the small box
[00:18:37] that was deflected by the Brazilian defense and went into the
[00:18:41] back of the net. The Canarinha pressed at the end, but the score
[00:18:45] did not move, and with this result, Spain
[00:18:47] advanced to a semifinal stage where they will face
[00:18:51] Italy next Wednesday, an "Azzurra" that defeated
[00:18:55] South Korea 1-0 this Saturday that was a moment ago, one yesterday,
[00:18:58] sorry, 1-0 to South Korea.
[00:19:02] South.
[00:20:10] most complex match. The government of Lula da Silva plans to ban
[00:20:14] online casinos and limit betting, and clubs
[00:20:18] warn of imminent bankruptcy if this
[00:20:21] happens. So, to understand the current crisis, let's look at two
[00:20:24] eras of betting in Brazil: one is traditional
[00:20:28] gambling and the other
[00:20:31] is digital betting. Digital gambling is today a
[00:20:34] driving force of debt. In 1946, President
[00:20:38] Eurico Gaspar Dutra banned
[00:20:42] casinos, those contrary to morality, and his
[00:20:45] decrees remained for decades. This decision
[00:20:48] marked an era. But in 2018, President
[00:20:51] Michel Temer sanctioned the
[00:20:54] law. With it, he opened the market to sports
[00:20:57] betting. This meant a historic
[00:21:00] change throughout the country. However, this market
[00:21:03] grew with great deregulation during the mandate of Jair
[00:21:07] Bolsonaro. The regulation and fiscalization of the law was
[00:21:10] postponed, there was no effective control. With the arrival
[00:21:14] of Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva in 2023, the state took
[00:21:18] action. Da Silva signed a specific regulation,
[00:21:21] banning betting on individual events such as
[00:21:25] cards, serves. This measure seeks to prevent
[00:21:28] match-fixing, and also aims to curb
[00:21:32] debt and addiction. These problems
[00:21:35] affect families with fewer resources. Today
[00:21:38] the tension is increasing in the Planalto
[00:21:42] Palace. Lula da Silva's government has already blocked the use of
[00:21:45] social subsidy cards, also seeks to prevent
[00:21:48] their use on gambling platforms, and is also
[00:21:52] preparing a provisional measure that will completely ban
[00:21:56] online casinos. These represent 75%
[00:21:59] of the operators' income. The Brasileirão
[00:22:02] clubs launched a joint manifesto
[00:22:05] where they warn that these measures
[00:22:09] will cause their financial bankruptcy, expressing
[00:22:12] deep concern.
[00:22:15] Lula da Silva's response to the teams has been
[00:22:18] blunt: their complaints are stupidity or
[00:22:22] absurdity, reminding them that Brazilian football was already
[00:22:26] great, without the need for
[00:22:28] betting.