Canada, Mexico and United States will participate in the 2019 Copa America in Brazil

That's interesting. I was under the impression that Copa America was essentially more of a South American tournament. I don't think it would hurt to have a few teams join the competition from other confederations. Looks like Chile has a lot to worry about in defending their title if this is the case!

 

I thought South American fans didn't consider this a "real" Copa America with the inclusion of non Western Hemisphere countries?

 

Twelve. There have long been two invitees, one being Mexico and the other being someone else.

 

Incredible! I would prioritize the Gold Cup, but we can easily field two rosters...

GOLD:
GK: Steffen, Bono, Gonzalez
FB: Yedlin, Lichaj, Garza, Polster
DF: Miazga, Brooks, Parker, Glad
MF: McKennie, Adams, Nagbe, Roldan
AT: Pulisic, Saief, Arriola, Tillman
FW: Weah, Wood, Sapong, Sargent

------------Wood------------------
------Weah-----Pulisic----------
-Nagbe--McKennie--Adams--
Lichaj----------------------Yedlin
-------Brooks---Miazga--------
--------------Steffen-------------

Bench: Bono, Parker, Garza, Roldan, Saief, Arriola, Sargent

COPA
GK: Hamid, Klinsmann, Horvath
FB: Chandler, Moore, Robinson, D. Acosta
DF: Carter-Vickers, Opara, Palmer-Brown, Cameron/Besler*
MF: Parks, Scott, K. Acosta, Williams
AT: Amon, Lletget, Gooch, Corona
FW: Johannsson, Novakovich, Dwyer, Siebatcheu

*It goes against my principles, but at this point, I'm not quite ready to see Zimmermann or Long; and the young guns could use some experience. So, Cameron or Besler take a spot.

---------Johannsson---Novakovich--------------
Amon-------------------------------------------Lletget
------------Williams-----------Parks-----------------
Robinson--------------------------------------Chandler
--------------CarterVickers--Opara------------------
-------------------------Hamid---------------------------

Bench: Horvath, Moore, Palmer-Brown, Scott, Gooch, Siebatcheu, Dwyer

ALTERNATES:
GK Guzan, Miller, Johnson
FB: Vincent, Villafana, Nerwinski, Cannon, Duncan
DF: Zimmermann, Long, Hedges, Trusty
MF: Trapp, Delgado, Kitchen, Stanko, Morales, Hyndman, Torres, Durkin, Lindley
AT: Finlay, Rowe, Manneh, Fontana, Mines, Lennon, Carleton, Booth, Lewis, Sonora
FW: Altidore, Green, Ramirez, Zardes, Rubin

 

Would prefer more of a Euro and A team based roster for the Copa America. The gold cup is always played at such an awkward time for European based players, since it’s from early to mid July. Do Euro players rest after their seasons and then come in out of shape for the gold cup? Do they keep in game shape right after their Euro seasons, rest after the Gold Cup, but then return late to their clubs for the start of the season?

 

I don’t feel like Qatar knows what it’s getting into

 

Thanks for the invitation, CONMEBOL. We - Canada, the United States, and Mexico - will gladly accept...if you give us your votes for WC 2026.

I don't like the use of metaphors from other sports in soccer discussions, but it's time for an inside pitch.

Hey, better that than the old British Columbia two-hander.

 

Technically...
... they kinda do know what they are getting into since they are host of the next World Cup and they need to schedule as many competitive games as possible with no qualifiers due to their hosting duties.

 

Qatar played in the Gulf Cup in January 2013, November 2014, and December 2017. That would be like if Jamaica hosted some of a World Cup and played Caribbean Cup games (I know the Caribbean Cup ended).

 

Will the USA be able to call up its players based in Europe? Or will the US only be limited to MLS?

 

That is the million dollar question.

Jamaica was able to call up competative teams for both the 2015 Copa America and 2015 Gold Cup.

I hope the US federation can figure this out in a similar fashion. And Personally I would send the best players to the Copa America since there really is no incentive to win the Gold Cup.

 

Honestly, I find it incredible that Concacaf teams worry more about the Gold Cup rather than playing the Copa America where the real champion of the continent is defined.
Really, they'll never get better if they only keep playing in one of the weakest confederations.
I'm not talking about unifying confederations cause I know you are afraid of not classifying to the World Cup.
But at least we should unify the cup and play once every four years.

I really don't intend to be rude, but I think it is the small club mentality of Concacaf that doesn't let them progress.
Instead of playing against the best even if you can't win you prefer to be champions of a cup that doesn't mean anything to the rest of the World.
Really, here in South America we don't even watch the Gold Cup final, it is non existant.

 

There are many factors that have gone into it. The Confederations Cup was put on a pedestal and that was an incentive to win the Gold Cup. Now there's rumors of that cup saying bye bye so that is not really a variable anymore.

Also the CONCACAF itself would put pressure on the USA and Mexico to bring their best players.

Also Clubs put pressure on the CONCACAF teams to just call up players for the Gold Cup and not the Copa America since it is the one FIFA designates as their continental competition.

So I can see how the attitude has developed but I can see it disintegrating with the way things are turning.

 

Given the way the US's current Technical Director and Coaching search are going, that's looking like wishful thinking...

 

Unless google translate has failed, the article says invited.

Doesn't say we are participating.

 

Interesting, yes I noticed that Concacaf teams give a lot of importance to the Confederations cup whereas for Europe and South America that is a second level cup.
We give importance to the World Cup and the Copa America/ Eurocup.
Those are the cups that we pay attention to.
Confederations is ok but not that important.

But I can see why for Concacaf teans the confederations is so important, it is the only real tournament you get to play against the powerful teams apart from the World Cup.

I still think that we should have Copa America every four years unifying both confederations, Gold Cup should be discontunued if that happened.
Mexico, USA and Costa Rica are better teams than Venezuela or Bolivia and add competitiveness to the tournament, and in a few years they could become contenders.
That would also benefit the image of the tournament as a whole to the rest of the world and would be considered at par with the Euros.

 

Chile went all in at the Confederations. Spain sent full teams in '09 and '13. Italy sent a full team in '13. Germany sent a scratch team in '17 as they wanted to rest their regulars. Brasil sent an understrength after having participated in the '14WC, '15CA, the '16 Copa Centenario, and '16 Olympics.

I'd like to see our coach use the Gold Cup as leverage to call in the Full Team's Euro-based players, for the Copa America--assuming there is no 2020 Copa.

 

Interesting that Canada is in. Concacaf president is Canadian? 2026 North American bid?

Never mind then. Makes perfect sense.

 

Seems like this is part of securing the South American vote for 2026. If it’s not, it should be.

 

Does the Copa America count as a cap-tie event for the invited teams? I think I recall reading that it doesn't, but that might've been bad information.

 

Then the whole world can watch the US players stand on the field in awe of Messi instead of actually trying to stop him like last time...

 

Lol yeah, that match was absolutely terrible for the US but I think they can do much better.
They haven't played well the last few years to the point of not qualifying to the World Cup, that's clearly a step back from previous performances but I still think they are on time to change what they have to change.
If they'll do it or not I don't know, but lots of things need to change for them.

 

The CONCACAF is too greedy of get rid of any Gold Cups.

In fact they are expanding it to 16 teams so they can make even more money.