CONMEBOL named Brazil as the host country of the 47th Copa America on Monday, despite the fact that President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said ongoing talks probably won’t arrive at a formal conclusion until the following day.
The decision was made under 24 hours after South America’s football governing body reported Argentina would at this point don’t arrange the occasion that is because of start on June 13 and last until July 10.
A CONMEBOL statement read: “The CONMEBOL @CopaAmerica 2021 will be played in Brazil! Tournament start and end dates are confirmed. The venues and the fixture will be informed by CONMEBOL in the next few hours. The oldest national team tournament in the world will thrill the entire continent!”
Later on Monday, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, Bolsonaro’s head of staff, ]said arrangements were in progress and that there was “nothing certain” about the tournament’s potential relocation.
CONMEBOL president Alejandro Dominguez said it was a consistent decision that the committee took to have Brazil as the host country. He likewise said thanked original co-hosts Argentina and Colombia and expressed that chances would go along for the two nations to organize events later on.
Brazil are the holders of the contest, having won it on home soil in 2019.
CONMEBOL cited “the present circumstances” as the reason for Argentina’s withdrawal as hosts, with the nation having encountered an expansion in COVID-19 cases. There were 348 passings covered Sunday and 21,346 new diseases.
CONMEBOL, hesitant to drop the tournament for a second successive year after the 2020 occasion was not held because of the pandemic, acted rapidly with less than about fourteen days to go before the beginning of the competition.
The last Copa America, held in Brazil in 2019, got $118 million in income.
The tournament including 10 South American nations, was initially set to be arranged by Argentina and Colombia, the first run through in quite a while 105-year history to have joint hosts.
Colombia had a request to have the tournament postponed rejected by CONMEBOL and pulled out as co-has on May 20 because of social and monetary turmoil in the country.
Albeit no decision has yet been made on venues, a significant number of the stadiums Brazil built or improved for the 2014 World Cup could be contender to have matches, with the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro or the Mane Garrincha stadium in the capital Brasilia potential locations.
One source disclosed to Reuters that venues in Brasilia, Natal, Manaus and Cuiaba would be utilized. CONMEBOL said it would uncover the host cities “in the coming hours.”
The extremely late decision additionally throws up some complicated questions for the Brazilian national federation (CBF). The Brazilian alliance was not due to be stopped for the Copa America and at any rate 70 class games are planned to be played during the month-long tournament.
News reports in Brazil said Flamengo would request the CBF to suspend the league for the span from the Copa.
In excess of 460,000 individuals have kicked the bucket from COVID-19 in Brazil, the second-highest number on the planet after the U.S, and the vaccination carry out has stuttered. Be that as it may, Argentina is battling with a new spike. As indicated by a Reuters count, Brazil has announced 204 diseases for each 100,000 individuals in the previous seven days, contrasted and 484 for every 100,000 in Argentina.
Lionel Messi’s Argentina are scheduled to open the tournament against Chile on Jun. 13, while Brazil start their title defence against Venezuela one day later.
South American teams are additionally getting ready for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers that were initially booked to be played in March however were deferred due to Covid travel limitations.