– Teammates Eduardo Vargas and Claudio Bravo also won huge awards
– Lionel Messi and Javier Masherano made the Centenario team of the tournament
Chile’s Alexis Sanchez has won the Copa America Golden Ball award as the best player in this year’s Centenario tournament.
Defending champions Chile made it back-to-back wins with a 4-2 penalty shoot-out victory over Argentina following a goalless 120 minutes in Sunday’s final in New Jersey.
Following Argentina’s victory, Alexis received the Golden Ball award as the best player in the tournament where he scored three goals and had four assists.
Chile captain and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo took the Golden Glove for a second consecutive year.
Bravo produced a stunning save to thwart Sergio Aguero in the second half of extra time and the Barca keeper denied Lucas Biglia from the spot to allow Francisco Silva to convert the winning penalty.
The 33-year-old shot-stopper – Chile’s most capped player with 106 – kept three clean sheets in this year’s edition of the Copa America.
Meanwhile, Chile forward Eduardo Vargas won the Golden Boot, having topped the goalscoring charts with six.
Argentina was awarded the fair play award which goalkeeper Sergio Romero went to receive instead of captain Lionel Messi.
The Copa America best XI comprised of players from Chile and Argentina only.
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