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    New faces and old names

    By Andrew Downie

    Wednesday, February 8, 2006

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The 2006 Copa Libertadores kicks off this week with a host of new faces and some of the biggest names in South American football conspicuously absent. The list of those missing South America's premier club competition reads like a who's who of South American football. Boca Juniors, champions three times in the last six years, are out following a poor run of form in Argentina. Barcelona from Ecuador did not make it into the draw and neither did Olimpia from Paraguay, ch ...

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