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    Round-up of South American action

    By Brian Homewood

    Monday, August 16, 2004

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Alianza Lima won the first stage of the Peruvian championship with a 1-0 victory over Universitario, who had three players sent off on a chaotic weekend in the country that hosted last month's Copa America. A photographer fell into a moat surrounding the pitch at the same match, while Cienciano's game at Alianza Atletico was abandoned after a linesman was injured by objects thrown from the crowd. Millonarios, once one of the world's richest clubs, slumped t ...

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