We Need To Talk About The 2024 Copa América
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- The Copa América is the oldest still-running continental football tournament in the world, but whilst it's first 44 editions, spanning almost 100 years, were hosted in South America, two of the last four Copas have been hosted by the United States of America.
The 2024 Copa América, like the Copa América Centenario in 2016, isn't just being hosted by the United States, but also features six CONCACAF national teams, alongside the ten from CONMEBOL.
It's a strange, but revealing, dynamic, which speaks to the way in which football is changing - and so, in this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at the slightly unusual 2024 Copa América, why it is controversial, and what it tells us about the direction in which football - or soccer - is heading.
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You enter to watch a copa America video and then you find yourself getting educated about the Ecuadorian economy, thanks Alfie
I think Conmebol and CONCACAF should agree to scrap the gold cup and make it a true copa America. North and South America
Rooting hard for Colombia to win the “Copper America”
In South America, the word "America" usually refers to the entire Americas, so Copa America is a suitable name for a competition that includes the USA and Mexico as well as the CONMEBOL members
“Like the African cup of nations hosted by Austria” I don’t think it’s the same scenario as it’s literally called “copa America” which makes sense because it’s all American countries
To be fair, Mexico and the US are still in America. Qatar on the other hand...
As someone from South America, one of the reasons I think the Euros is more appealing to a broader audience is that they have a lot of teams playing in it. Copa America is just as high quality as the Euros in my opinion, but with Conmebol only having 10 countries in total as a confederation, it feels like a much smaller tournament in comparisson. It doesn't matter how much you hype up the Confederations Cup for example, even though it was composed of the winners of the 6 continental champions around the world, it always felt less important, appealing and prestigious than winning whatever continental cup your confederation holds every 4 years instead.
it seems like more people outside the americas have a problem with this tournament than people actually living here
I don't see any problem here, the tournament began with three countries, change is constant, it's either this or the tournament continues to decline in popularity
As a brazilian, I have absolutely loved this new format
Copa America literally translates to cup of America/America Cup. Both continents of North and South America are literally referred to together as the Americas. There is nothing weird nor wrong about this
I'm really happy with new copa format. Finally 4 groups of 4
Copa America is basically what it should be. It's part of the American continent, not for South America alone.
I don't see the issue here North and South are collectively known as the Americas, and if you're going to allow teams from outside South America to compete it only makes sense to let them host it as well.
The 16 team format guarantees:
I'm Brazilian, and i think most south americans are happy with this edition of the copa america. We are a small continent, so having more countries participaring is nice, plus Mexico and USA have competitive teams to play against. I honestly think it's a Win/Win situation.
Something else to consider is how badly CONCACAF teams need this tournament from a competitive perspective. The USMNT has won every tournament in CONCACAF since 2021 where we had our top talent (Nations League and Gold Cup were splitting the rosters). As recent friendlies proved, all the CONCACAF teams are way behind South American ones.
It would be great if they made it official that Copa America is tournament for the whole of America and it's a 16 team tournament. CONMEBOL could still keep the advantage by having all 10 members quality automatically while out of 41 CONCACAF memvers only 6 qualify. CONCACAF can decide how they select those 6 teams, would it be a separate qualifications campaign or would they use either world cup qualifiers or CONCACAF gold cup as the qualifiers for Copa America.
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I think if anything, having so many North American nations in the Copa America makes it more of a Copa America. Like it’s not the Copa America del Sur, so theoretically it’s not an issue if any team from the Americas plays in it