The Copa América Centenario is a sixteen nation international football/soccer scheduled to take place 3–26 June 2016.
All ten teams from South America (CONMEBOL) and six in total from North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) are to take part.
Officially, this tournament is to celebrate the centenary of CONMEBOL, FIFA allowed for it to be put on to the international match calendar which means that first choice players are in theory available. It's theoretically possible that the likes of Neymar, Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi, Javier Hernandez and Bryan Oviedo will feature in this tournament.
The tournament was nearly cancelled after several high profile sports and media executives were arrested and assets were frozen by the American authorities. The FBI allege that up to $20million worth of bribes were to be given to executives for this event from a media company. It wasn't until the tournament organisers changed media partners that they were confident in announcing it would go ahead.
Group stage draw
The draw will be held at 19:30 Eastern Time in New York City on 21 February 2016. Univision and Fox Sports 2 will be televising the draw in USA. Jorge Campos, Alexi Lalas, Mario Kempes, Carlos Valderrama will conduct the draw.
Four teams have been seeded and pre-drawn. Chile, the 2015 Copa America winners and Uruguay, the most team with the most Copa America titles were not seeded. The organisers have ensured that the seeded teams from the same Confederation can not meet until the semi-final stage.
- Group A: USA
- Group B: Brazil
- Group C: Mexico
- Group D: Argentina
- Pot 2 (CONMEBOL - higher ranked)
- Chile
- Colombia
- Uruguay
- Ecuador
- Pot 3 (CONCACAF)
- Costa Rica
- Jamaica
- Panama
- Haiti
- Pot 4 (CONMEBOL - lower ranked)
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Bolivia
- Venezuela
Venues
Schedule
Be sure to check the official website for details in case they change kick-off times.
I recommend Soccerway as it displays the the kick-off times in your local time zone.
Website links
http://www.ca2016.com - Official website
http://www.concacaf.com - CONCACAF
http://www.concacaf.com - CONMEBOL
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