This is a list of awards presented to players and teams that have distringuished themselves at the end of each

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final tournament.

Awards

There are currently five post-tournament awards: * the Golden Ball for

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, first awarded in

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; * the Golden Boot for most prolific goal scorer; * the Golden Glove for most outstanding goalkeeper, first awarded in

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; * the Team of the Tournament for best combined team of players at the tournament, first awarded in

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; * the Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play, first awarded in

. In addition, the Best Young Player award has been given out intermittently.

Golden Ball

The current Golden Ball award was introduced in the

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. The

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provides a list of the best players from the first edition in 1916, who are listed below as unofficial recipients.

Unofficial

This is an unofficial list of the recipients of the best player award provided by the

Official

Golden Boot

The Golden Boot is assigned to the top scorer of each edition.

Golden Glove

Team of the Tournament

Fair Play Award

Best Young Player

This award has been given out only in the 2007, 2011, and 2015 editions.

Footnotes

References

{{Countries at the Copa América

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