Santiago: The latest installment of one of South American football's fiercest rivalries plays out at the Copa America on Monday when hosts Chile face Peru with a place in the final at stake.


Peru's players take part in a training session at the National Stadium in Santiago. Pic/AFP 

Matches between the two neighbors are known as the "Clasico del Pacifico" and are played against a backdrop of historical enmity that dates back more than a century to the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific.