Brazil Thrash Argentina 3-0 in Tokyo Olympics Qualifiers

Brazil captured the second qualification card from the continent of Latin America to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by beating Argentina 3-0 in Monday morning's match they got.

In the last round of qualifiers in Colombia, the two Latin American Football giants were locked horns, where they qualified for South America Tango and Silesia.

To enter them as one of two teams from South America at the Tokyo Olympics, Brazil had to defeat their arch-rivals in the qualifier in Colombia.

By taking their first two matches in the round-robin qualifying tournament Argentina had already qualified for Tokyo.

Despite losing Monday's and taking the first position with 6 points, Argentina's national team came second after improving their score to 5 points when Uruguay (3) and Colombia (1) failed to qualify.

After 11 minutes Paulinho scored the opener before Matheus Cunha added a second at the half-hour mark and a third early in the second half.

Brazil won the gold medal in 2016 at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Arena, earning them the last major international championship to have eluded them.

It was kept from a four-round tournament that named Argentina's national team despite losing Monday's first position with 6 points, and Brazil came second after improving its score to 5 points, while Uruguay (3) and Colombia (1) did not qualify.

So far, the number of those qualified for the Tokyo Olympics has risen to 14 squads. China, the host country next to Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa from the continent, France, Germany, Romania, Spain from Europe, Canada, Saudi Arabia, South Korea from Asia, Argentina, Brazil from South America and two cards from North America will be decided in the first From next April until the end of the year.