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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica_2007
The Copa América 2007 is a football tournament, set to be held in Venezuela between June 26 and July 15, 2007. It is organised by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body. This will be the first time Venezuela, the only Spanish-speaking South American nation where football actually takes a back seat to baseball in popularity, will hold the tournament.
Confirmed
* Venezuela (hosts)
* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica (Invitee)
* Ecuador
* Mexico (Invitee)
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Uruguay
Speculated
The United States, as winners of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, have a standing invitation to take part in the tournament. Scheduling conflicts with Major League Soccer have prevented the U.S. from participating in the Copa América since 1995, but United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati has recently said he will reconsider sending the U.S. National Team.[1] Should the U.S. decide to participate, Costa Rica would likely be forced to withdraw. However, it is also rumored that Brazil will withdraw; the 2007 Pan American Games will be held in Brazil during the Copa América, and blanket television coverage of that event in Brazil will leave the country without a television network with spare time to air the Copa América.
CONMEBOL is considering expanding the number of competing nations to 16. Rumours included Portugal and Spain (the former colonial powers) as invited nations, along with the 4 best teams from CONCACAF, presumably United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago, with Guatemala (fifth in CONCACAF 2006 World Cup qualifying) or Panama (runners-up of the 2005 Gold Cup, and the nearest Central American country to South America) as backup options if the USA choose not to enter the competition. Rumours also include Japan and South Korea as possible teams to take action, but it's unlikely since these nations have no geographic and a tenuous cultural connection to a American one (although Japan played the 1999 Copa América in Paraguay as an invitee)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Am%C3%A9rica_2007
The Copa América 2007 is a football tournament, set to be held in Venezuela between June 26 and July 15, 2007. It is organised by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body. This will be the first time Venezuela, the only Spanish-speaking South American nation where football actually takes a back seat to baseball in popularity, will hold the tournament.
Confirmed
* Venezuela (hosts)
* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica (Invitee)
* Ecuador
* Mexico (Invitee)
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Uruguay
Speculated
The United States, as winners of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, have a standing invitation to take part in the tournament. Scheduling conflicts with Major League Soccer have prevented the U.S. from participating in the Copa América since 1995, but United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati has recently said he will reconsider sending the U.S. National Team.[1] Should the U.S. decide to participate, Costa Rica would likely be forced to withdraw. However, it is also rumored that Brazil will withdraw; the 2007 Pan American Games will be held in Brazil during the Copa América, and blanket television coverage of that event in Brazil will leave the country without a television network with spare time to air the Copa América.
CONMEBOL is considering expanding the number of competing nations to 16. Rumours included Portugal and Spain (the former colonial powers) as invited nations, along with the 4 best teams from CONCACAF, presumably United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago, with Guatemala (fifth in CONCACAF 2006 World Cup qualifying) or Panama (runners-up of the 2005 Gold Cup, and the nearest Central American country to South America) as backup options if the USA choose not to enter the competition. Rumours also include Japan and South Korea as possible teams to take action, but it's unlikely since these nations have no geographic and a tenuous cultural connection to a American one (although Japan played the 1999 Copa América in Paraguay as an invitee)
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