If we have a Euro thread, certainly we should have a Copa America thread...especially since it's in the US and involves the USMNT. Group A Argentina Canada Chile Peru Group B Ecuador Jamaica Mexico Venezuela Group C Bolivia United States Panama Uruguay Group D Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Paraguay Schedule...games begin 6/20. All games on Fox/FS1/FS2 Betting odds...Argentina are the favorites at +175. US are 4th at +1200 (seems a little high to me) Colombia and Uruguay are my "darkhorses". Columbia hasn't lost in 23 matches and Uruguay has been rather dominating of late. The US should make it out of their group. Not doing so would hopefully finally rid us of the Gregg Berhalter experiment. Mexico is the favorites in their very weak group. Them not getting through would mean their dark days just became a total blackout. Argentina should run away with group A while the 2nd place will be a tight battle between Canadia, Chile, and Peru.
Funny to me how they randomly invite countries from other countries and now even host the tourney in North America. Without being to close to the game, it sure looks like it's once against Argentina or Brazil to win it all.
Fun drunk on Saturday. I meant "Countries from other continents". To make my point clear: The Copa America is actually the South American Championship but in the past years they invited Japan or Qatar for instance.
Respect, because why not? I'm getting there. I figured as much, but had to say something. Truth, but expanding the Copa America to all of the Americas has been a thought/dream (at least here in the US/Mex) for a long time. How does this not make sense? Is there some Hemispherical Tournament I'm not aware of?
Isn't there the Gold Cup for North and South America? Absolutely not my expertise. Guess any federation just wanted to expand their tournaments in the last two or three decades. We know why.
The Gold Cup is for CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean). CONCACAF has historically invited other teams to participart to up the competition because it's been utter dominated by the US and Mexico. COMNEBOL has historically invited the US and Mexico to participate in the Copa, but the US typically hadn't chosen to participate. The Copa America Centanario was a combined competition in 2016. There's been calls for this to be the way forward because CONCACAF, while it has a lot of members, is comparatively weak overall. Keep in mind, the combined membership of CONCACAF and COMNEBOL is still fewer countries that are part of UEFA (51 to 55). So maybe a larger format tournament that includes qualification (like UEFA) wouldn't be the worst idea for all involved. They can keep the Gold Cup as a tournament for the smaller Central and Caribbean nations if they want it. But it would be better for the larger and more historically successful CONCACAF teams to compete more regularly against the COMNEBOL teams. I'd put Colombia and Uruguay ahead of Brazil, but behind Argentina.
Canadia looked decent last night and had their chances. If you don't finish against a team like Argentina, you're going to get punished. Crazy seeing how many Messi missed that you'd assume would be sure goals. His assist was quite nice, though. Just one game tonight (Chile v Peru) and then the real fun starts tomorrow. With the Euros, games at 8 am, 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm, 8 pm. Unfortunately, that's the only day that will happen as the Euros get into the 3rd group matches which will have the games at the same time. Still, Sunday is good fun with Euro Group A at 2 pm and then USA v Bolivia at 5 pm, followed by Uruguay v. Panama at 8 pm.
Usa got an easy group, should beat Bolivia n Panama but lose to Uruguay. Curious to see the interest throughout United States to thos event. We all know Kansas City will be lit
This is why I generally prefer the Copacabana games…ever since Rico and Tony moved on, those are far safer. I’ll hang up and listen.
A goal and an assist, not a bad half for Captain America. The modified mullet is not a great look, however. field at AT&T looks decent?
