The
NFL
has its
Super Bowl LVIII
confirmed, with
the San Francisco 49ers
facing the
Kansas City Chiefs
, the defending champion.
It will be on Sunday, February 11 at 8:30 p.m. (Argentina time) at
Allegiant Stadium
, located south of
Las Vegas
in the city of Paradise, Nevada.
It will be the first final to be played in that state and will mark the third to be played in the western United States in a row.
A new edition of the Super Bowl is just around the corner, with Patrick Mahomes'
Chiefs
looking to retain the title they won last year, when they beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Arizona.
Their rival in this 58th edition of the NFL finals will be
the San Francisco 49ers
, re-editing a duel that took place just four years ago and that left the
Kansas City
team as the winner .
NFL Super Bowl LVIII: how to watch it on TV
The Super Bowl can be seen through the
CBS
network in the United States, while in Mexico and Latin America it can be seen through
ESPN
and
Star+.
The
Chiefs
and
Niners
are truly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the Kansas City team shows more recent dominance.
Although he is on his way to his sixth championship ring, he would be taking his fourth in the last five seasons, leading a
dynasty
in
American football
.
The 49ers, for their part, will also seek their sixth championship in this edition, although their last great celebration dates back to 1994, exactly 30 years ago.
The extra spice that this game will have is the precedent of 2020, when the Chiefs came back and took the final 31-20 with a superb performance by
Patrick Mahomes
.
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The halftime show of the 58th edition of the Super Bowl, a classic of TV broadcasts, will have Usher perform as the main artist at halftime, officially confirmed by the NFL.
The popular singer is expected to have guests on stage.
Super Bowl 2024: Kansas City vs San Francisco
The San Francisco 49ers, with the surprising quarterback Brock Purdy, finally climbed the playoff mountain to return to the Super Bowl, where a familiar rival awaits them.
The new opportunity to win the Super Bowl for the Niners will be in a second match against the Kansas City Chiefs.
It will be a rare rematch in such a short time.
“It's perfect,” said Nick Bosa, San Francisco defensive end, about the second chance in five years to beat the team led by Patrick Mahomes
“They are a bigger organization than almost anyone, because of their coach and their quarterback.
And they went wrong.
This year they had not looked as good and now they are playing at their best level, so it will be a great challenge.”
Patrick Mahomes, the top star of Kansas City and the entire NFL.
Photo: AP Photo/Nick Wass.
There have only been eight rematches in the previous 57 Super Bowl games.
And only three have been presented in a five-year period before this reissue.
The winners of those three duels were the teams that had triumphed in the first confrontation.
There will be more than a dozen players who will appear in this game after also playing in the duel that Kansas City won 31-20 in Miami, after the 2019 campaign. Among them are stars from both teams.
Brock Purdy, the surprise quarterback of the 49ers.
Photo: AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vasquez.
The Chiefs came back from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to win that game and win the first of two Super Bowls with Mahomes and coach Andy Reid.
Kansas City fell in another trip to the Super Bowl, and will be the third team to reach the big game in four of five seasons.
Super Bowl VLIII: revenge four years later
“We already have a good idea of what this is going to be like,” San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan said.
“They've been doing this for a while.
Since we faced them in 2019, it seems like they've done this every year.
“We have fought really hard to get back to this moment.”
The two teams have eight players on the active roster who played for them in the first matchup.
Bosa is joined by Deebo Samuel, George Kittle, Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, Arik Armstead, Kyle Juszczyk and Mitch Wishnowsky.
Coach Kyle Shanahan wants to be a champion with San Francisco.
Photo: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports.
In addition to Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, Harrison Butker, Mecole Hardman, James Winchester, Nick Allegretti and Blake Bell will repeat.
San Francisco also has cornerback Charvarius Ward, who was with the Chiefs four years ago when they beat the Niners, and tight end Ross Dwelley, who is on the injured list for the rest of the season.
Travis Kelce, famous for his relationship with Taylor Swift but a huge star of the Chiefs.
Photo: AP Photo/Julio Cortez.
The Chiefs have a former Niners player from that game, receiver Richie Hames, along with defensive league member Derrick Nnadi on the injured list, as well as Austin Reiter and Mike Pennel on the practice squad.
Kansas City vs San Francisco, with defined colors
The champions Kansas City Chiefs were designated by the NFL to be the home team in Super Bowl LVIII, so they earned the right to choose to wear their red jersey to defend their title against the San Francisco 49ers, who will wear their white uniform. visitor.
Super Bowl LVIII will be played on February 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, a stadium that opened in July 2020 and has a capacity for 65,000 fans.
Kansas City and San Francisco will repeat the colors of 2020. Photo: Angela Weiss / AFP.
The importance of the choice of uniform color in the history of the previous 57 NFL title games is marked by the trend that says that the team that played white won 37 times.
In last year's Super Bowl LVII, the designated local team was the Philadelphia Eagles, who decided to play with their green jersey in the game they lost 35-38 to the Chiefs, who were crowned with their white uniform.
The difference in favor of the teams that wear white clothing in the Super Bowl has intensified in the recent 19 editions, with 16 wins.
This trend is present even in Tom Brady, the highest Super Bowl winner in history, with seven, six with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Of the seven wins Brady had in his 10 Super Bowl appearances, only two were in the home jersey.
Kansas City fans believe in Patrick Mahomes.
Photo: AFP.
Next September 11 will be the fourth appearance of the Kansas City Chiefs, led by Patrick Mahomes, in the NFL championship game in the recent five years.
In the first, in Super Bowl LIV they beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20, in that game the Chiefs wore red;
A year later they succumbed 31-9 to the Buccaneers led by Tom Brady.
In last season's edition they beat the Eagles.
For San Francisco this will be its third visit to the Vince Lombardi Trophy matchup this century.
In the previous two he was defeated.
In Super Bowl XLVII they lost 34-31 against the Baltimore Ravens;
In the LIV edition they lost against the Chiefs.