We now have a rumor that the 2019 Copa América in Brazil will keep the 16-team format... If so, I imagine that 1) all the top seeds will be South American this time, and 2) they would either negotiate w/CONCACAF to host the Gold Cup another year or invite Asian teams again to complete the field, because the last thing we need is the final qualifiers from CONCACAF sending B-teams...
Chile should be seeded as defending champs, along with the host. The other two should be the best placed on the rankings at the time. Right now, that would be Argentina and Colombia.
In Centenario they were seeded by virtue of being the best ranked Conmebol team. If anything, they gave a more BS excuse for Brazil's seeding.
We won't be seeded... we would need to win the World Cup or something... our market is too small, they would rather give it to Mexico.
The US is one thing, since there aren't that many Chilean expats over there...but you guys can definitely sell out stadiums in Brazil (See: Chile-Australia and Chile-"Spana" in the last WC finals).
It's the Copa América, not Copa non-UEFA. It'd be a total farce to invite Asian teams... more farcical than the utter domination North American B-teams would suffer. I'd rather see Jamaica-B in an Americas tournament than a randomly invited South Korea over any day of the week. Plus AFC are shite against South American teams if played outside of Asian Soil, aren't they? (Just a hunch, no data to corroborate it). Wouldn't do much better than concacaf-B.
I think I would rather play full strength Japan, South Korea or Australia than diminished Jamaicas or Honduras... Who cares if its a farce at this point...
Although, with the Asian Cup scheduled for the same year and Asian NTs getting stonewalled by European clubs when asking for players for guest participations at the Copa América, you ain't gettin' full strength Japan, South Korea or Australia either (the very reason Japan and China turned down CONMEBOL for 2015).
Same problem - AFCON scheduled for January 2019, plus an even stronger reaction from European clubs to the idea of releasing key players for a second tournament in 6 months. You know who you really need to invite? ENGLAND.
http://www.latercera.com/noticia/deportes/2016/07/656-687383-9-centenario-feliz.shtml Lo que dejo la Copa America Centenario
One side question that would have to be addressed ahead of 2019 is: if the six invites go to CONCACAF, what tournament would be used as qualifying? World Cup qualifying (i.e. invite all six teams that reach the Hexagonal) or the 2017 Gold Cup? I don't know if the Caribbean and Central American championships would be taken into account again, given that two of each will take place between now and 2019.
Probably the Gold Cup to keep it somewhat relevant for the rest of the teams that don't have a shot at winning it.
Concacaf sending b teams is fine: they'll have an excuse for the humiliating defeats and Conembol teams get a small boost for the Fifa rankings.
My Ecuador Playing against Asian teams would of been Awesome! But.. then it wouldn't be Copa ''AMERICA'' anymore