Teams not from South America being invited to compete in that regions tournament is barmy to be honest. It's like Real Madrid being invited to play in the FA cup one season.
Copa America 2015 | Tournament over, Eboue misses the final, everyone lols
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Or Swansea in the English leagues..
They kind of have to. They only have 12 countries in South America, and only 10 of them are competitive. Guyana and Suriname are the other two but they are represented in the CONCACAF. Its only logical for the Copa America to invite nations to the tournament.
As someone with a Guyanese father I often wonder how Guyana would fare if they were in Commebol. Would they concede double digit goals every match?
Well they played Colombia in a friendly 3 years ago and lost 7-1.. their last International fixture was in 2012.
Not a merger. The Copa America centenary in the US is a straight up cash grab, similar to why the Mexican NT plays many matches in the U.S. and the Gold Cup is always played here every time even when another country hosts some matches.
Copa America 2016 is a friendly tourney pretty much. I do wonder what kind of squads the teams will take, since there is only the olympics that year.
The title of this thread makes it sound like it he got pissed up and did it himself for a dare or something.
, but at least he will be ready in time for the Super cup against Bayern.I've updated post #3 and #4 with all the final squads.
European teams with at least two players at the Copa:
6 - PSG
4 - Man City, Barcelona, Juventus, Fiorentina, Napoli
3 - Man Utd, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Torino, Porto
2 - Arsenal, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Eintracht Frankfurt, Rayo Vallecano, Genoa, Sampdoria, AC Milan, Atalanta, Monaco, Benfica, Zenit, Shakhtar Donetsk
European teams with at least two players at the Copa:
6 - PSG
4 - Man City, Barcelona, Juventus, Fiorentina, Napoli
3 - Man Utd, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Torino, Porto
2 - Arsenal, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Eintracht Frankfurt, Rayo Vallecano, Genoa, Sampdoria, AC Milan, Atalanta, Monaco, Benfica, Zenit, Shakhtar Donetsk
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I'm hoping for a Chile vs Argentina final. The Copa is exciting and this year you can see 4-5 teams that contain at least 1 superstar.
What UK channels are showing the games???
Premier Sports
Valencia is not in the Ecuador squad. Angelo Henriquez is in Chile's, however.
Rojo, Di Maria and Henriquez.
YouTube is streaming all of the games live.
Anyone else think its shocking that neither BT or Sky Sports attained the broadcasting rights for this, its a showpiece event and Premier Sports gets it, its laughable. Surely BT could have put it on ESPN if they didn't want it on their main channels.
How else do you create three groups of four with 10 teams? Two of 5 is far too many group games.
It's (to my knowledge - I guess OFC as well) the only continental tourno where every country participates: no qualifiers and still not enough teams to fill the groups.
It should typically be US & Mexico though, it's Copa América after all.
Anyone fancy having a go at some starting XI's? How strong will the lineups be?
Possible Brazil XI:
Possible Brazil XI:
Jefferson
Danilo - Luiz - Silva - F.Luis
Elias - Fernandinho
Willian - Coutinho - Neymar
Firmino
Danilo - Luiz - Silva - F.Luis
Elias - Fernandinho
Willian - Coutinho - Neymar
Firmino
But as it stands, he's a Manchester United player. To leave him off a list starts making it opinion and not fact!
I can't believe LVG wouldn't give him a shot.
Cant wait to see Argentina, Messi and Banega
----------------Romero----------
Zabaleta--Otamendi-Garay---Rojo
------------Mascherano---------
-------Banega-------Biglia-------
Messi---------Kun-------Di Maria
Tevez supersub Would love to see Di Maria in place of Biglia and Tevez in front three.....
----------------Romero----------
Zabaleta--Otamendi-Garay---Rojo
------------Mascherano---------
-------Banega-------Biglia-------
Messi---------Kun-------Di Maria
Tevez supersub
Would love to see Di Maria in place of Biglia and Tevez in front three.....It will have to go unwatched. I am not paying yet another subscription.
Okay fine, I have edited that list. Happy now?
He should've been given a chance to prove himself this forthcoming pre-season. Selling him for the fee that was reported last month is just daft.
Thrilled!Okay fine, I have edited that list. Happy now?
He should've been given a chance to prove himself this forthcoming pre-season. Selling him for the fee that was reported last month is just daft.
I hope he gets chances. Perhaps he'll get some for his country this summer too, it'd be great to see him do something - he's been on fire this season.
Streamed live on YouTube mate.
Romero
Zabaleta - Garay - Otamendi - Rojo
Mascherano - Pereyra
Messi - Pastore - di Maria
Agüero
vs
Firmino
Neymar - Coutinho - Willian
Fernandinho - Fabinho
Filipe Luis - Thiago Silva - David Luiz - Danilo
Jefferson
What I hope for I guess.Zabaleta - Garay - Otamendi - Rojo
Mascherano - Pereyra
Messi - Pastore - di Maria
Agüero
vs
Firmino
Neymar - Coutinho - Willian
Fernandinho - Fabinho
Filipe Luis - Thiago Silva - David Luiz - Danilo
Jefferson
Marcelo, Alex Sandro, Lucas Moura, Felipe Anderson? But Robinho is initially called up?
Just looking at that reminds me how fecked we are for goalkeepers. Who was the last great South American goalkeeper? Chilavert? Julio César had a very short peak.
That's a big disappointment.
Chile vs Ecuador should kick off around 00:30 here in the UK Definitely going to keep an eye on that.
Definitely going to keep an eye on that.Why are Brazil still not playing Diego Alves in goal? He's been great in La Liga for a few years now.
Having followed a few of the South American leagues over the last couple of years, I have to say the absolute ineptitude of the goalkeepers across the continent is a stand-out feature.
That, the surprisingly sparsely populated stadiums and the excessive dribbling.
Stereotype hat-trick ftw!
Brazilians love a rubbish keeper.
Not sure what it is, maybe it's a psychological trick so players don't get overconfident ("Remember! Our goalie can lose it for us in no time!").
In a nutshell, yes. It doesn't help that we have a tendency to go with experience over ability, we have seen some outstanding keepers in our Youth teams but they never make it at their clubs because rubbish experienced ones somehow hold on to their spots. Right now, the two reserve keepers at Peñarol are being sought after by European teams while the starting keeper is a fecking calamity. Bizarre.
They were runnners-up at the last World Cup, they're better than Brazil.
@Samid any chance of a sweepstake just for fun? Two posters for every team, maybe as there's only 12 teams.
Sure. I'll post it in this thread and threadmark it.
Cool. I was gonna make a thread but this would be better. I'm in.
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Suffered an ACL tear against Real Betis a few weeks ago. Probably out for the rest of the year.