Copa America rolls on
The 2015 Copa América will be the 44th edition of the Copa America, the main international football tournament for national teams in South America. The competition is organized by CONMEBOL, South America’s football governing body. Chile host the tournament from 11 June to 4 July 2015. Uruguay is the defending champion. Twelve teams will compete, the ten members of CONMEBOL and two guests from CONCACAF – Mexico and Jamaica, the latter of which will compete in Copa América for the first time.
The winner of the tournament, or the best placed CONMEBOL team if Mexico or Jamaica win the tournament, will qualify for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted in Russia.
The group-wise teams are:
Group A: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico
Group B: Argentina, Jamaica, Paraguay, Uruguay
Group C: Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela
The final match will be held on July 4 and the third place play off on July 3.
Past winners: Uruguay won 15 times, Argentina 14 and Brazil eight times. Others winners are Columbia, Peru (twice), Paraguay (twice) and Bolivia. Argentina have not won the cup after 1993, but Brazil captured the title four times since 1994
The whole world is eager to see whether Brazil will be able to overcome their World Cup nightmare, or Argentina conquer Copa America drought?
A Sports Fan
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