The 2024 Copa America shall be performed within the United States, confederations CONCACAF and CONMEBOL introduced on Friday, as a part of a brand new strategic partnership that can embrace a collectively organized membership event.
Next 12 months’s Copa America, organized by the South American confederation (CONMEBOL), will even function six invited groups from the CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean) area.
This would be the second time that South America’s most necessary nationwide crew event shall be held within the Americas, after the particular commemorative version in 2016, which additionally featured six CONCACAF groups.
On the ladies’s aspect, CONCACAF will invite 4 South American nationwide groups to the 2024 W Gold Cup, a event that can have its first version within the Americas this 12 months.
CONMEBOL and CONCACAF additionally introduced plans to carry a membership event in 2024 with 4 groups, two from every area qualifying via their current regional tournaments, the Copa Libertadores and the CONCACAF Champions League.
“CONMEBOL and CONCACAF are united by historical and emotional ties. But above all, we are united by a passion for football and sport that characterizes all of America,” CONMEBOL President Alejandro Dominguez mentioned in a press release on Friday.
“We want this passion to lead to more and better competitions and to grow and strengthen football and its values ​​across the hemisphere.”
CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani mentioned: “This partnership is meant to support the continued development of men’s and women’s soccer in CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, and will truly be of mutual benefit to both confederations.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
