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NattyBo
Sep 20, 2004

Football Team.
Wasn't really sure where to post this, but huge-ish news on ESPN Deportes by Jorge Ramos, people posting on twitter:

Jorge Ramos of ESPN Deportes confirms Copa PanAmerica with CONCACAF and CONMEBOL teams in 2016 to be played in USA, instead of the regular Copa America format.



IMO it should be permanently this way (except rotate which country it's held in).

Been waiting for this a long time!


Edit2: Found the tweet in Spanish, it's definitely national teams and not a club competition. Cool.

NattyBo fucked around with this message at 14:32 on May 24, 2012

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NattyBo
Sep 20, 2004

Football Team.

Vinestalk posted:

Going to be 16 total. 10 from CONMEBOL with 6 from CONCACAF. Don't think Caribbean teams will be invited. My guess is it will be Canada, US, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Who gets invited to PanAmerica will probably be based on commercial potential (based on what the CONCACAF president said in February).

Edit: The weird thing might be one of the Central American teams gets bumped for Japan. I don't really get it, but they've been invited to a couple Copa Americas before and they've already been invited to 2016.

There is always a special guest team in Copa America. Tradition. The US was once, but they sent down a scrub roster and havent been invited since.

That's a great format for the tournament though, like it.

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