Overview
- Peru opened the scoring 1-0 when Mart Cari finished a Jonathan García assist about 22 minutes into the bronze-medal match.
- The match is the third-place game of the Juegos Suramericanos/Odesur 2026 and features teams that lost 1-0 in their semifinals to Argentina and Paraguay respectively.
- Peru had already beaten Chile 2-0 in the tournament group stage, giving the Bicolor a recent head-to-head advantage going into the third-place match.
- The game is played at Estadio Marcelo Bielsa in Rosario and is being shown across the region on Movistar Deportes in Peru, TyC Sports and TV Pública in Argentina, multiple Chilean channels, and the official Odesur YouTube stream.
- Coverage notes inconsistent labeling of the youth category—some outlets call the teams Sub-19 while others use Sub-20—but all sources agree the match is the youth bronze final at the 2026 South American Games.