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Argentina extends lead in South America group
June 3, 2001
SportsLine.com wire reports
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina scored three times in the first
half Sunday to beat Colombia 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier and increase its lead
in its South American group.
Kily Gonzalez scored in the 22nd minute, Claudio Lopez in the 35th and
Hernan Crespo in the 38th.
Argentina leads the 10-team group by six points. Colombia remains in fifth
place. Later Sunday, last-place Venezuela was at ninth-place Bolivia.
The top four teams in South America advance to the 2002 World Cup in South
Korea and Japan. The fifth-place team will play the winner of the Oceania group
for another spot.
AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service
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