Copa America 2019

SoupInNYC said:
The field is being expanded to 16 teams for the Copa America 2019 in Brazil. The article doesn't confirm where the additional teams are (CONMEBOL only has 12) but I would assume the field would at least include the US and Mexico.

http://www.espnfc.us/copa-america/s...ve-16-teams-for-2019-edition-hosted-by-brazil
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That's great news. With the League of Nations stuff inhibiting the opportunities for friendlies against WCF-quality opponents outside of the confederation, it's a necessity the US participate in more of these.
 
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Won't it conflict with the Gold Cup?
 
FredMertz said:
Won't it conflict with the Gold Cup?
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they will probably move it.

usually june is copa america and july is gold cup...OR they get rid of the second gold cup and have the league of nations thing happening as mentioned already.
 
Brazil are the hosts for the next edition in 2019, when the expansion will make it easier to invite teams from other regions of the world.
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does that quote from the article suggests they might invite teams from outside North and South America? Like Asia or Africa or Europe?
 
jerseyhotspur said:
does that quote from the article suggests they might invite teams from outside North and South America? Like Asia or Africa or Europe?
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I'm sure I speak for the whole forum when I say I utterly condemn your wanton disregard of Antarctica United.
 
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EL FLACO YANQUI said:
concacaf League of nations............ AN UTTER FUCKING WASTE OF TIME.....


more like a scheme to fill the pockets of a few third world confederation corrupt presidents...
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Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but...how does this fill their pockets? I'm not going to argue over whether or not it's a beneficial competition because that's a very opinion-oriented subject, but surely regimenting member nations into a strict pro/rel-based competition removes most of the ability for association presidents to extort appearance fees and so on from potential opponents? The only thing I can think of immediately that could apply is prize money, but...I really don't see there being much, especially at the lower levels.
 
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Hey, look, this thread hasn't been touched in two years and the CONMEBOL Copa America 2019 begins on Friday, June 14 when the Neymarless Brazil take on Bolivia.

This tournament's non-CONMEBOL invitee nations are Japan and totally legitimate footballing powerhouse Qatar.

Will Messi finally win a trophy with Argentina?
 
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Keith Putnam said:
Hey, look, this thread hasn't been touched in two years and the CONMEBOL Copa America 2019 begins on Friday, June 14 when the Neymarless Brazil take on Bolivia.

This tournament's non-CONMEBOL invitee nations are Japan and totally legitimate footballing powerhouse Qatar.

Will Messi finally win a trophy with Argentina?
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Messi will probably not win.... Hes only solid with Barça
 
2020 invitees will apparently be Qatar and Australia.

Pity they didnt want to do the US version next year.
 
Victors87 said:
Messi........ Didn't show up
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I figured "hey, ARG and COL are the two of the best teams in CONMEBOL, I bet this match will be fun to watch!", and I was real real real real real real real real real real real really wrong.

ARG just had zero ideas about how to get through COL's 4-5-1. It also doesn't help that they seem fundamentally unwilling to even try to figure out how to get both Messi and Dybala on the field at the same time. God, what a stinker.

That said, both of COL's goals were pretty wicked.
 
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ferrarinycfc said:
2020 invitees will apparently be Qatar and Australia.

Pity they didnt want to do the US version next year.
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there is a whole conspiracy theory behind that. Basically Conmebol pissed at CONCACAF/SUM over rights of the Copa america name in the US not sure if after 2016 it went downhill, because conmebol didnt get 100% of the profits. thats why US soccer did the whole "invitational" tournament to try and make up with them for 2020 but conmebol was like "FOH"
 
i think Qatar got screwed in the end, the two replays i saw looked like penalty, went to VAR and nothing.
the crowds have been bad this tournament, even the Brazil opener was really lackluster and i think it didnt even sell out. Argentina- Colombia was the exception.
 
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