What On Earth Is Going On With The Copa America?
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The Copa America is the world's oldest international football tournament that is still running, and it is second only to the World Cup and the Euros in terms of viewing figures.
The 2021 Copa America, having been pushed back in 2020, was due to be co-hosted by Colombia and Argentina, but both nation's were stripped of their hosting rights by CONMEBOL, who awarded the finals to Brazil instead, just two weeks before the competition was set to begin.
So in this documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at the chaos going on in South America right now, why Argentina and Colombia were removed as hosts, why Brazil is such a controversial replacement, and the football war between Brazil boss Tite and the country's president Jair Bolsonaro.
Welcome to South America, where nothing makes sense and everyone just goes with the flow
Nailed it. You get squaders in Argentina who cant be kicked out of the house if they have kids
i can relate..
vamos carajo ;)
amor y respeto desde Grecia
You learned that with us Portuguese and our neighbors, Spain lol
i already lost it when they held the anniversary game
@@Blueflag04 why ? They love football n that’s why they celebrated 100 years of COPA n most of countries were fighting for their identity that time . I don’t have any problem wat they do in their continent?
CONMEBOL: *chaos*
Suriname in Concacaf: "what y'all talking about here I'm just chilling"
Just got smoked out of WCQ by Canada today
They did lose to Canada in WCQ, but they will be playing in their first Gold Cup next month, so it's not all bad.
Gotta love suriname, shame they Arent in the world cup
@@valpix7007 f*** I thought they'd go through to the next round. There's always 2026.
Lo raro es que casi nadie conoce surinam en S.A., es que en el colegio tampoco hablan de ellos y no hablan Español. Para mi es Holanda en S.A.
Good thing you said it was a joke!
I was almost believing Messi was somehow responsible for 5% GDP lol.
It's honestly completely believable lol.
LONG LIVE WEED
I wouldn’t be surprised. It is South America after all
He doesn't live or work in Argentina. Unless he (or an advisor) has made investments there, he's very likely to be responsible for not a cent of Argentina's GDP.
@@Minirover97 flaccid
It just seems bizarre to hold it during the same time as the euros, surely they’d get more viewers in an off year
conmebol are a shit organization but they arent as greedy as an organization like UEFA, the goal isn't money, its organization
I believe they decided to align it with the Euros to help give most players the same amount of rest time (in theory) for World Cups, and also as so many of the players play in Europe.
@@dadominos1078 who in this world is not greedy tho ?????? clubs organizations its all for the money , and it will always be that way ,
It's also an Olympics year. I guess European clubs would rather have just one tournament-related break. I suppose the impact on clubs would also make having a fall international break of four weeks to run the tournament then would be a factor against delaying it.
@@stevencooke6451 I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they're going to watch the Olympics. Apparently it and the WC get about the same total viewers, yet one of them has countless games opposed to the other with only 70 or so. Doubt UEFA are bothered by a highlight competition
These videos are outstanding. Thank you for the consistent and amazing content!
Thanks Dan, I'm glad you like them!
@@HITCSevens LONG LIVE WEED
The world cup host will never be chosen on football reasons ever again. The Qatar world cup has all but assured that
you actually wrong football is all about money so yeah going to qatar made sense since is what the sport has become greedy
2026 wc as well, imagine america hosting it for the second time even when great footballing nations like england and spain have only done once and netherland and belgium haven't hosted even once.
@@vatsalsingh1555 it's crazy. It would be like a cricket world cup being hosted in Iceland or something
@@vatsalsingh1555 Absolutely USA and Canada doesn't deserve hosting wc
@@vatsalsingh1555 It certainly is not related to its footballing cred.
As a Brazilian i was already facepalming everytime i heard of this competition. But listening an outsider talk about it in pure disapointment and disbelief is gold. We don't understand all this bullshit, as bad as UEFA can be, you are lucky not to deal with Conmebol
Lol try CONCACAF
FIFA is evil
@@Kobe_Jay_Kenobii concacaf is literally the OFC but with money, as mexican, belonging to concacaf is pure pain
I was lucky enough to go to 7 games of Copa America 2011 in Argentina, including the final. Great tournament and I've paid attention to it since, but they are not organised at all.
I don’t know if you’re south American or not, but we are just a mess, talented in terms of football but a mess nevertheless
m8, welcome to south american football, places like "la bombonera" or "maracanã" are like hell to the opponent, anything can happen from peace to a bloody fight.
COPA America 2021: *moves to Brazil*
Me: It's evolving, just backwards
🤣😂
*Final
My CZcams Football GOAT has done it again. Another class video Alfie, finally some insight on this fiasco surrounding the Copa América.
The joint bid of Colombia and Argentina which aren’t neighbouring countries is just as ludicrous as hosting the Euros in many European countries and why because sometimes the teams would need to travel to one game which could be played in London and they could have another game in Baku.
Yes It is ludicrous, but in Europe is much easier than in South America as SA bigger than Europe. You could fit at least 2 europes in the sub continent. And you have to remember that south american infrastructure is worst than the european one.
At first it may sound ridiculous but looking deeply I don't think it is. It was meant to have 2 groups of 6 teams. One group in Colombia, the other in Argentina. The best 4 in each group play quarter finals and so on. All knock out games in Colombia.
There is no traveling back and forth between the two countries
@@JJose13 msm assim man. Os times que jogassem na Argentina iam ter um dia a menos de treino
@@alextuller6222 Você definitivamente não pode colocar 2 Europas na América do Sul, Europa tem 10 milhões de km e América do Sul tem 17, se for incluir Azerbaijão, Geórgia, Armênia, Turquia, Rússia, Israel e Cazaquistão na conta da Europa (já que fazem parte da UEFA), aí você coloca 2 Américas do Sul dentro da Europa kkkkkkkkkkkkk
@@TheJackx666 Sorry esqueci do asterisco
Que é excluindo a Rússia.
Excluindo a parte russa, acabem duas europas na América do Sul
I've always wondered what would happned if both south American and north American countries participated in the tournament playing qualifying games beforehand sort of like the euros
Funny you mention that as some talks among fans are about the merging of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF.
@@Ese96Agoaye Not happening.
@@Ese96Agoaye Would be better I think.
I rather not thanks. Keep concacaf away
@@timdeathly Not at all. CONMEBOL has prestige. CONCACAF is a joke.
No one in South America would support this and I don't think it will happen.
Somehow I find myself respecting Tulio Maravilha...he's like Barry Hayles, he just loves playing football at any level, top flight, third division, non-league, Sunday league, he doesn't care as long as he's got a ball at his feet and a smile on his face. And a ball coincidentally coming into contact with his hand in a Copa America quarter-final, clearly. That too.
🇧🇷🇧🇷
He was chasing the 1000 goals scored in a career start but wasn't up for the task anymore and only lower division leagues would sign him, before he underperformed and didn't get his contract renewed a few times.
He's a banter character, tbf. Hell of a player in the 90s but banter nonetheless.
I remember when he signed for Újpest. You know when you're playing indoor football there's always an old guy who can't move anymore but is always at the right place, technically perfect and whenever he gets into position to shoot, he scores? That was Túlio.
No one:
Alfie: Cop-er America 😂
He isn't saying "cop-er", he's saying "cop-ra"
Which I think is far worse
@@PiousMoltar I thought I was the only one hearing "copra"!
Bayer = Bahia
I thought he was saying copra as a metajoke, now I'm not so sure
it's because it sounds weird without the r when two vowels are next to each other
I like how this is a video about Football but just caught me up on months of World News at the same time 😅
13:27 I almost took that seriously
It does sound like it could be true doesn’t it... 🤣
It wouldn't surprise me if Argentina was in so much trouble that a footballer would have 5% of its GDP... However, his net worth is $400m while Argentina's GDP is $450b making his net worth less than 0.1% and whatever his "personal GDP" (I don't think that's a thing) would have been even lower.
I remember figures once being tossed about concerning ABBA's importance to the Swedish economy so it had a whiff of possibility. Though I'm not sure how Messi's salary in Spain would translate toward Argentina's GDP. Perhaps Messi should host the Copa.
@@DomenBremecXCVI GPP (Gross Personal Product)
@@mirzaahmed6589 Of course it's something so obvious... I should have got that.
Too often football in South America has been used by various regimes over the years for their own political ambitions and it still suffers even today as a result.
The EUROS have the same nonsense group format. More than 50% of group games won't have any meaning, since you can literaly lose the first 2 games, and win the last and still progress.
More games, more money
When Portugal couldn't win a single normal, 90-minutes games but still won the last Euro
@@littlechemie5425 lol
Russia, Finland and Slovakia are out, even winning one game.
Yeah but it's also possible in the world cup, to lose two and win the third
Copa America isn't just "blatant cheating" or "scandal" ..it's probably one of the most unpredictable tournaments. Last tournament, Peru made it to the finals. A lot of teams fight till the death. Tbh the euros could be boring sometimes plus their format is faulty too. Regardless, I'm excited to see both tournaments
Do they still invite guest teams? I remember sides like the Czech Republic🇨🇿 USA🇺🇸 Mexico🇲🇽 Qatar🇶🇦 having played in Copa.
@@kurumi9714 they do but not for the 2021 tournament. Also mexico and usa dosnet go to copa america anymore as they have gold cup and now nations league that have priorty
@@kurumi9714 that was the centarrino? Centennial? In 2016 where they had some concacaf and qatar and i think japan? As well
@@kurumi9714 hmm nvm might you be thinking of the confederations cup which was cancelled recently? This is the 2016 i was talking about - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica_Centenario#Group_stage
They didnt have japan or qatar either so idk what i was thinking of
@@SkylordAh sorry, I must have been wrong about Czech Republic having played in Copa. According to wikipedia, this is what it says -
"In all, nine different nations have received invitations: Costa Rica (1997, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2016), Honduras (2001), Japan (1999, 2019), Jamaica (2015, 2016), Mexico (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016), Haiti (2016), Panama (2016), the United States (1993, 1995, 2007, 2016) and Qatar (2019)".
I'm from Colombia and your description was right. People are exercising its right to protesting and they are being killed for it. #SOSColombia.
So are you gonna avoid the fact that you guys are looting raping female officers burning down mayors offices and town halls attempted murder and trying to put colombia is major debt the stopping of Colombia’s copa america was because of you guys now you want free university with no money to fund money doesn’t come from trees
@@ErosFabbriGk2026 Why are you on here defending fucking property rights above human lives. Jesus christ dude. The people start of protesting and then the government and police fought back by killing, injuring and sexually assaulting protesters. No wonder the protester ain't tolerating that shit. They should be allowed to fight too lmao.
@@ErosFabbriGk2026 "raping female officers" lol if you'd actually could see what the police is doing you wouldn't be talking so much. Based from your ignorant argument I'd guess you're from the US?
@@TheBakerDB I have family in colombia due to the taking over and blocking of the highway to pereira I can’t go well if you were getting your news right several complaints were going on by house owners and the polices injuries and death were reported by police generals press conference
@@Motholdet Young protestors only see one perspective, just like HRW does, disasters of these protests in terms of economy are not important for them, lost of many jobs, lack of products in many cities, etc, they don't care bcoz most of this generation doen't work or even study, there are opportunities for them if they study and prepare for the future, but they prefer to wish a progressist government that gives them everything fo free, also, secure forces' deaths are not important for ong's and youth, they only care about protesters, pure show, and that's without adding the fact that youth doen't even know why are they protesting on the street, they just follow what those corrupt trade unions (cut, fecode,etc) says of making more chaos, those bastards doen't even care about people who are dying on this situation, they just want to get a credit of the crisis. Dissapointing.
Some journalists in Chile claimed that CONMEBOL approached Chilean football federation before Brazil's, but they didn't agree on which level of covid restrictions games would be. Of course, CONMEBOL want games as normal as possible to more money out of them, and Bolsonaro was happy to accept that. Actually one the stadiums being used is in Manaus, one of the cities worst hit by covid. It's insane.
Same guy who said you will tuen into a crocodile if i get the vaccine
He retired football aged 50 EXCUSE ME.
Blessing to everyone in South America corruption is real stay safe
túlio's a legend
The deaths by police violence in Colombia is closer to 60, there's hundreads of missing people and in a country where half the population (about 25 million people) lives below the poverty line, the government has repeatedly increased spending on the police and the military. Thank you so much Alfie for bringing attention to such important issues that no one seems to care about with another amazing video. #NosEstánMatando
So are you gonna avoid the fact that you guys are looting raping female officers burning down mayors offices and town halls attempted murder and trying to put colombia is major debt the stopping of Colombia’s copa america was because of you guys now you want free university with no money to fund money doesn’t come from trees
if the copa america is more dysfunctional than the afcon then 😂
Fuck!! Lord help us!!
They make afcon look like UNICEF
It seems CONMEBOL is more disorganized than CAF 😅😅😅😅😅
that is what makes it great
8:40 tbf the Euros have a similar problem of one team disadvantaged by long travelling. One team will play their quarter final in Azerbaijan and take a 6 hour flight to play at Wembley just 4 days later. Meanwhile their opponents travel from Rome
And you have England that stays in Wembley all time long
Yes, I was immediately thinking of some of the strange hosting decisions surrounding the Euro.
Thank God Euro 2024 is in Germany
6 hour flight with a 4 day recovery window isn’t bad at all lol
@@VerticalitySports there’s only 2 days inbetween the flight from Baku nd the semi finals at Wembley.
Finally, I've been waiting so long to see Brazil lining-up as in FIFA
A video on CONMEBOL and/or the AFA would be wonderful too.
In fact, while you're at it, why not give us a top 7 ranking of Football Associations (administrative organizations) at each respective major tournament.
Yeah afa won’t be there let me tell you that
I'm a Kiwi & the Copa America's my 2nd favorite tournament behind the World Cup. Passion! You summed it up.
Day 1: Best 11 with European nations players that are not in the Euros.
Or every country's best player not going?
Thanks for covering this! Im Brazilian, living in the US, and this was a lot of great info. I always hear my family's side of politics and this showed me how its twisted in football.
It is astounding CONMEBOL wouldn't try and work with Argentina given the massive problems elsewhere...oh that Latin temperament...
Yeah its stupid but also terrible timing. Argentina was doing very welll with covid up until a month ago . People got tired of staying home and started traveling, going to brazil
As someone from mexico i think the copa america is so stupid the whole format and inviting nations that arent even from the continent is just plain stupid
Idk if Algiers says it in the video, but Alisson and a few other Brazilian national team members have been convinced to participate. In the matter of which they announced the statement and what it specifically says, CONMEBOL definitely seems to be the antagonist if this story.
CONMEBOL IS THE ANTAGONIST
"Cheating, bloody rivalries, violence."
Mira como se emociono Bilardo
Esas son las ligas de Sudamérica más que la copa américa jaja
jaja
Political and Social issues directly affects sports. It is not only impossible to separate but unethical to ignore. The Olympic Committee have historically banned athletes from highlighting political or social issues to its events. This to me is a statement that an athlete is appreciated only for his skill not for his life.
I mean its like athletes live in a bubble. Jessie Owens praised Hitler.
@@lmads8023
Hitler was trying to sway African Americans to support him. He promised they will have a better life and would no longer endure racism.
@@juniormynos9457 exactly so Jessie Owens fell for it because of the bubble he was in, remember concentration camps were in full swing while the Olympics happened
Great video, mate! I'd only ad a comment about the CBF pro-Bolsonaro stand while their president, Rogério Caboclo, is accused of sexual rarassment of a employee and at the moment is away from his job.
as a Colombian myself, I find it almost amusing that finally somebody spoke about what's happening in our country. And the thing is, for us here, this gives of vibes of certain evil people in germany during the 30's-40's, it is insane
Just an extra fact, the president's last name is Duque, not Márquez. Márquez is his second last name... in spanish speaking countries, we alway show our father's and mother's last name, in that order, so I do understand why Alfie called him Márquez. Anyway, thanks for that Alfie
Conmebol: “Chaos is a ladder.”
HITC Sevens: “🤣”
thanks for talking about this, alfie. i'm brazilian, and being here right now sucks
your president is so bad mate
8:02 "It is a bizarre format"
*cries in 1996 Cricket World Cup*
Who even watches cricket ¿¡
@@ivanperkovic2614 Over 2 billion people
@@georgeneale9706 1.5 billion of those is just India
@@ivanperkovic2614 India doesn't even have 1.5 billion population lol.
@@ivanperkovic2614 Alfie
honestly this tournament is crazy, but i love watching it every time. Hoping Argentina show sparks this year.
I really wanted to click on another video but this video was so articulate I was 'forced' to watch through. This is brilliant work.
They should make a tournament where countries from all over the world meet and play in a selected country
Lol
Joke???
🤣🤣
lmao
Planning a tournament by moving it to a country that is in a worse state... makes perfect sense.
Should've just asked the US were willing to do it. We have the infrastructure ready and it happens before the Gold Cup
Welcome to South America. The reason why is because CONMEBOl doesnt want strict restrictions, they want the stadiums full , max capacity and brazils president is like trump and thinks the virus isn’t real . He said if u get the vaccine u will turn into a crocodile. Not a joke
@UC1BcEcGHAE6R3Gj1qifEhyw There's no comparison between Bolsonaro and Trump lmao Trump was a decent leader afterall, not really conservative and a Jew lover, but at least he tried to calm the Middle East. Bolsonaro is just the average South American politician.
@@vladimir8035 lmao calm the middle east, by empowering isreal more lol go back to school
UEFA: We are the most corrupt entity in Football
CONMEBOL: Hold my Neymar
FIFA - Thats cute
@@Blueflag04 Olympic Committee:
Puny mortals
I haven't watched much south American football but want to get into this, and it's crazy place to start, thanks for the video hope you can make more on the situation
not entirely unrelated but if you're into books and football history, you could get some interesting background with Futebol Nation, the footballing history of Brazil by David Goldblatt. Granted, it covers only one country but it also gives an insight into the mad scheming that goes on in their FA. And if it's available in your country, check out El Presidente on amazon prime. It's hilarious!
@@hugohugolfson8471 thanks, I'll check them out
Just a suggestion, the National games since the 2016 copa América have been Very boring, Brazil has never Lost to another South American National team with Tite as the manager, and even then people in Brazil want him to get sacked due to How boring his play style is. I recommend watching the Libertadores over the Copa America personally
watch the brazilian league, maybe start with Santos fc (my team) 🇧🇷🇧🇷
I’m Colombian and I can tell you, lots of us didn’t want the tournament because in our contienen there have been multiple instances where horrible governments use football tournaments to hide or distract from their issues, with the social problems here nobody wanted this; Argentina has an insane amount of Covid cases so a sanitary crisis and Brazil has both social and Covid related issues. I can’t understand how Conmebol decided on Brazil 🇧🇷 makes no sense
2 minutes in and I can already tell this video will be a masterpiece
After the game against Paraguay, the Brazilian team collective sent a note to the press stating that, while they're against the Copa America being played, they will play in the tournament regardless.
I couldn't be more ashamed of the seleção. Honestly, I haven't been even able to root for them since 2004.
Sums them up in a nutshell since 2002. Every time you think something interesting is gonna happen, they flop on the floor. All they have to do now is pooch the job on the next WC.
For my selfish reasons, I would love for the tournament to be hosted by the US. I could only imagine watching messi and neymar live from the stands.
I’m argentinian and tbf that would make a lot of sense. The fact that north American countries don’t play in the copa america is really stupid to me as well
This year wouldn't be possible for it to happen. This year the Copa Oro is ongoing and they would interfere with each other.
@Honest Leicester Fan That's complete bullshit. Don't you think teams like North Macedonia, Ukraine, and Slovakia are behind in quality of the likes Germany, France, Spain, Belgium etc.
@Honest Leicester Fan they are behind quality with the best teams but they are not behind bolivia, venezuela or paraguay for example
@Honest Leicester Fan I get your point but I really don’t think thats the main problem, I can assure you there will be more people from places like Argentina watching the tournament than in the US even if they were to participate. At least as of now. I agree that the gold cup is trash and thats why I think its a good idea. Tbh none of the teams in north América would be favorites at all so I don’t think it will take away the possibility of an underdog like Peru, and it would be nice to watch different matches that are not always between the same 10 countries.
Colombian here, great coverage dude, keep it up.
Hitc I'm a American fan of your content keep up the good work mate
Brasil is more like Disorder and Decline. Ordem e Progresso means Order and Progress.
The motto has far too often been used to justify repression in the name of progress.
indeed haha 🇧🇷
Welcome to south America, where inefficiency, extreme corruption and wasted potential is an every day thing and people somehow are fine with it.
I can remember when Ronaldo (9) scored a hat-trick of pens in a game, I think it might have been against Argentina, although don't quote me on that final part lol
Just did a quick Google. Yeah it was the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. 3-1 victory for Brazil.
@@stonecold6521 oh hell yeah
And it was a kind of sweet revenge for him, because Argentines had been mocking him for being fat
@@johan2 We Argentines actually admire The Gordo.
The rule requiring members of national teams to be vaccinated was lifted because it was implemented too soon for them to receive both shots. The opening game saw Venezuela play with 8 of their players out of the match due to covid infection. This tournament happening at all is a joke.
Hey. Brazilian here. Just want to clarify a little bit about our political situation!
We have a real problem with the radicalization of the right wing ideologies in our country. Brazil was governed by the Worker's Party ("Partido dos Trabalhadores") for about 14 years. At the start, we had a great time, with economy blooming and reaching a great situation around the year 2009. But after that, we had a serious economical downfall, wich led to a lot of backslash against Dilma, the successor of Lula.
After the July 2013 protests, wich was caused by an state of unrrest about the problematic representation in our politics, Dilma was take off charge amid her second mandate. In 2018, Bolsonaro used the insatisfaction of the middle class with the Worker's Party to win the elections.
About the representation problem: we don't really have strong ideology bases in the political parties. For starters: Worker's Party is widely accused by the left of having sold out for the enterprises. We don't really have a solid Socialist's Party, with the strongest one ideologically being PSOL, wich never gets many seats. We have PSDB (party of FHC, the president before Lula), wich have Social-Democracy in the name, but is actually a Christian Democracy party. We have a Progressist Party, wich is one of the CONSERVATIVE ones. The Liberal Party is also a strong Conservative one. The Democratic Party ("Democratas") is compose of the political heirs of the 1964~1985 Militar Dictartorship. And there's a lot of other problematic names.
As of this moment, President Bolsonaro does not have a party. He was elected with the number of PSL ("Social Liberal Party"), a party wich USED to be left wing, but was took over by politicians that wanted him to go there before the election. The party elected a lot of right wing people with speechs that goes all over: from neoliberals to neofascists (even some that defend death penalty for those who steal, even if it is made by people who steal to eat). But after some fights over control of the party, Bolsonaro and his closest allies (many of wich are his sons) left the party. They then tried to creat a new party, Aliança pelo Brasil (Alliance for Brazil), with a name derived from a slogan used by the militar command of our last dictartorship. It failed.
After that, Bolsonaro is making a move to get control of another party, Patriotas (Patriots), a small right-wing party with a lot of conservatives already stablished.
In Brazil, as in US, the candidates can get private money to run the campaigns. One of the enterprises that donated money to Bolsonaro campaign was EMS, a farmaceutical company that produces Hydroxycloroquina, the drug that Bolsonaro told brazilian people that we should use to prevent Covid-19. It was then proved that it does not work, but Bolsonaro is stil saying people should take it. He also refused to buy Pfizer Vaccines or to help the production of national vaccines. Pfizer was refused because Bolsonaro wants to keeps the government spending at the minimun, no matter how many lives are lost, because a lot of his faithful electors are liberals. The national vaccine problem is because the major vaccine reasearch company in Brazil actually belong to São Paulo State, wich is governed by Dória, apointed by the media as one of the two major favorites do win next election against Bolsonaro for the presidency.
We have now a investigation committee in our congress, wich eventfully became to be run by some major opposition names. This committee suspects that Bolsonaro strategy against Covid was to let people die until herd immunity was reached, trying to reduce the economic impact a lockdown would cause. All because he and his allies think they get a better chance in the election with people dying of Covid then with the economy in a bad shape.
Day 124: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions
I would love to hear the officials in the VAR room explains their decision rather than being so opaque about it
Australia getting into Eurovision and now Australia getting their way into the copa america 😭 what the actual fuck
Australia is in AFC Asia cup
I'm Brazilian and can confirm Alfie is the best football journalist there is
Ubira Leal would like a palavra
HITC Sevens: The Copper America
Subtitles: The Copper America
4 Copa america in the last 6 years = Tryna give messi the title
Literally the vid just told you why it’s like that
Look at 2019 brasil v argentina and you would know its the contrary. That was a robery and the Conmebol was clearly helping brasil, which were the hosts
Then why would they always help Brazil if they want to give Messi the title
the fact that Australia and Qatar are included baffles me
I am starting feel like its a glorified friendlies. Its being played every year or so. 4 Copas in 6 years!!! Personally i believe it has lost the prestigious value it could have if they held the tournament every 4 years like WC and Euro.
Day 1 of letting Alfie know his content is top quality 👌
Sorry bro he already has a girlfriend
@@marcusflynt810 oh no.. 😲 cause the only reason i rate his content is cause i fancy him 😏
@@Charliiiie dw its pride month I understand
It's so depressing to watch this at this time. I mean, football it's a celebration, it's about hapiness (unless u're a cruzeiro fan, as myself) not closed statiums with players who doesn't care about the country
Te entendo parceiro. Hoje em dia eu prefiro muito mais ir assistir a pelada da várzea do meu bairro do que ver um jogo da Copa América, por exemplo
Think a video needs to be made on how Argentina can produce so many attacking players yet defenders, especially cbs, are such a poor bunch, threw away a 2-0 lead last night & they STILL play Otamendi
It is because of their obsession with the number 10 role and flair attacking football.Diego Simeone could be a great coach who fixes that issue but he's not ready for international duty at least that's what he thinks
benfica fan here: otamendi went through some bad seasons at city but he was a pleasant surprise for us this season. great at defending and, most importantly, a very passionate player who gives it all in every moment of every match (which was even more surprising for us cause we thought he would not care about benfica, since he was a former porto player). his only downside is that he's kind of an error prone. can be having a perfect match and then do some stupid error randomly
It's because of the manager being so fucking stupid. We have Romero (best defender in Serie A) and Lisandro Martínez (Has probably won the Eredivise with Ayax like 200 times already) but they still play shit players.
Clearly isn't a problem anymore now since they went all the way.
Scaloni finally got a magic formula to make CBs decent again.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 Romero has always been a great CB, but yes he turned Otamendi into a beast
Given the political and Covid issues in many of these countries, I’m amazed that the tournament is taking place at all. I suppose it makes sense to align it with Euro 2020 so that players are away from their clubs at the same time.
Great video again. Concise in the midst of chaos.
Political issues here in Brazil and a huge hipocrisy by the players
It would probably help if they didn't have such inconsistent years in which they hold its like its every year they after 5 years they decide to stop if for 2 years its run so poorly
That why they now want it run every four years along side the euro and World Cup but the countries leader are a shambles so that needs fixing too.
There was one time where it was played twice the same year, so yeah, corruptbol never changes
Its being held for one bottler
@@Miuranger1 just leave
Amazing Video! As a Brazilian i can confirm most of what you said in this video. Its a fact most brazilian Slecao players support Bolsonaro however i would dispute their influence in his election. The idea of hosting the copa during this crisis is just ridiculous.
This is a great video HITC, thanks for the explanation. What a shambles.
They should’ve just let the usa 🇺🇸 host it. We’ve controlled the virus... well mostly, and we have large migrant populations so people would turn up. And sporting events here are almost full capacity.
Only downside is South American fans wouldn’t be able to come watch the games but the game were only gonna have 65 people anyway so that wouldn’t matter
I thought the same, and we should invite USA and México to improve the matches
@@BioRex96 mexico would definitely improve the matches, but USA... Idk. USA's team would likely lose to Equador
Also had this idea.
@@odilsonbraz2239 ironic that we beat them....
@@JoeGilligan07 in 2019 you guys beat them 1-0... That really doesn't mean much tho... Leicester beat Chelsea to the FA Cup title, and lost the very next game (also against Chelsea); the point is, if the US were to join Copa America rn, they would definitely rival Ecuador (and possibly lose to them, despite having pulisić). Mexico on the other hand could beat Uruguay, and even upset Brazil and Argentina.
Copa America week 2: a referee actively participated on a play that led to a Brazilian goal
You are beautiful.
@@sonny3107 Simp
@@lauradelsolgonzalez878 Fishy
What people think: then the referee made a goal
What really happened: the ball touches the referee and came back to the player
Day 88: Most shocking/surprising FA cup winners. By that I mean, the most surprising team that went onto win the entire tournament.
1. Wigan Athletic.
2. Portsmouth.
3. Tottenham Hotspur.
Wigan and Spurs high up there
I’m Brazilian and it is a shame for us how accurate this video is! Unfortunately the situation is not easy and the government thinks more about money (corruption) than in saving lives, the worst part is that there are a lot of people still believing in this “misgovernment”.
God forbid we push back the regular as clockwork Copa America. They've always hosted this tournament whenever they feel like it. Just push it back a year when the participating nations are less civil unresty and less pandemicky.
"No trates de entenderla" - Chiqui Tapia 2018
Check out the Brazilian supreme court. On Thursday there will be a hearing and a ruling on Friday if the ca is to happen or not
Never understood the idea to have the tournament align with the Euros. All the media is centered around the Euros this summer and the Copa America barely gets enough attention as it is
i agree. and since theres no copa america qualifiers i think the copa america should be always in the year following the world cup, and then having 2/3 years of qualification for the world cup (which is big, each team plays 18 matches)
Just cancel the whole damn thing....
Much appreciated from Brooklyn! I really enjoy your videos!
Fuerza Colombia #nosestanmatando 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
I saw Martin Palermo play once. He didn't score any penalties, but he didn't miss any either.
Eddie Howe, without Freddy Adu
Fantastic video. Incredible chaos in South America
CONMEBOL... making UEFA and FIFA look good by comparison 🤣
Thank you for explaining everything! Such fascinating series of events.
Football is corrupt,no matter where.Leaves a bad taste in the mouth.Lets go back to good old days,circa 1980s where the money wasn't there.
Alfei, one day I’ll be across the pong and I’d love to grab a pint, you’re pure class. Cheers
expecting south americans to organize something efficiently is like expecting north macedonia to win the euros
Amazing stuff, Alfie. Love these deep dives. Really hope they call off this tournament
yeah. when i was watching qualifiers yesterday, i realized, we really have some shit referees. but oh well, conmebol has always been a mess
What I don't like is that they just arbitrarily host more tournaments as they wish. They have the tournament 2 years in a row with the pretext of celebration. They change the calendar to 1 year later. They could have just moved the 2023 to 2024 and started from there. But instead they smuggled in one more in 2020.
When you include Qatar and Australia in an American tourney you know it's a joke tourney.
It's a confederation made up of 10 countries. It's usually split into 3 groups, 4 countries in each, you can't do that with 10 nations, so they always invite 2 other countries. Mexico and United States usually went in but the Gold Cup is now held around the same time as Copa America so Mexico and the U.S. no longer get invited. Qatar since they're the host of the World Cup probably paid good money to join (let's be real about that), as for Australia, no idea why they were invited.
Weirdly enough, both Mexico and U.S. as far as I know are available for this tournament so they could have been invited.
@@jldch26 yeah, as you say there are always invited teams just make the numbers. My understanding is that there's no particular reason to choose a nation apart from them willing to join, and not having a very strong team to affect too much the results.
Another great video. Keep up the great work mr. Sevens!
Day 75: 7 best international tournaments ever in your opinion (world cup,euro,etc.)
existem 7 sequer?💀
Horrible suggestion
So.... Argentina was stripped of their hosting rights because they asked for stricter anti-covid-measures? Sounds like Argentina was way more responsible than some hosts of the Euros. I guess shame on Conmebol and Uefa alike
Bloodbad?
Laughs in Dutch wen remembering "The battle of nuremberg" 😂
yea, imagine having one tenth of that in every important libertadores game
Enjoy your work. But I think this is the type of video is where you excel. As always, thank you good sir.