Copa America Schedule 2016
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Copa america schedule 2016 Continue Copa America CentenarioCentennial Cup America'1'Tournament detailsHost countryUnited StatesDates3-26 JuneTeams16 (from 2 confederations)Venue (s)10 (in 10 host cities)Final positions Champion Chile (2nd title) Runners-up ArgentinaThird place ColombiaFour place USATourman statsMachi played32Go Attendance1,483,855 (46,370 per match) Top scorer (s) Eduardo Vargas (6 goals) Best Player (s) Alexis SanchezBast goalkeeper Claudio BravoFair to play Argentina award← 2015 2019 → America's Cup Centenario (Portuguese) : Copa America Centenario (for Brazil), French: Copa America Centennaire (for Haiti), English: Centennial Copa America (for USA); The Centennial America Cup was an international men's soccer tournament held in the United States in 2016. The competition was a celebration of the centenary of CONMEBOL and the America's Cup, and was the first America's Cup held outside south America. The tournament was a memorable version of the America's Cup (not the 45th edition). It was held as part of an agreement between CONMEBOL (Confederation of South American Football) and CONCACAF (Confederation of Football for North and Central America and the Caribbean) as a special edition between the usual four-year cycle, and featured an expanded field of 16 teams (increase relative to the usual 12), with all ten teams from CONMEBOL and six teams from CONCACAF. Despite the fact that the tournament is the official iteration of the America's Cup, the winner will not receive an invitation to the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 because of the memorable nature of the tournament, although the eventual winners of Chile have already qualified thanks to their victory in 2015. Chile became the fourth country to win at least two consecutive CONMEBOL titles, after Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. Argentina, meanwhile, lost their third consecutive final in a major tournament, after germany lost at the 2014 World Cup and Chile at the 2015 Copa America. Considering Argentina's losses against Brazil (2004 Copa America, 2007 Copa America and 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup) and Denmark (1995 King Fahd Cup), this is Argentina's seventh lost final since their last triumph at the 1993 Copa America. In a plan in February 2012, Alfredo Hawit, then acting president of CONCACAF, announced that the competition was expected to take place in 2016 as a celebration of the centenary of CONMEBOL. CONMEBOL President Nicholas Leoz said: Hopefully we can organize a big event because we are 100 years old and we want to celebrate a great one. The tournament was announced by CONMEBOL on October 24, 2012 and confirmed by CONCACAF on May 1, 2014. On September 26, 2014, FIFA announced that the tournament had been added to the INTERNATIONAL FIFA Match Calendar, which means that clubs must called for a contest. The tournament took place in June 2016 together with Euro 2016. Sports Executive Corruption Additional information: The 2015 FIFA corruption case tournament was called into question after several high-profile sports executive arrests were made including those related to media rights holder Datisa (using the trade name Wematch), a partnership between three media rights holders; Full game, Torneos and sports marketing traffic. In December 2014, Brazilian Jose Havila, owner and founder of Traffic Sports, pleaded guilty to corruption charges including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering. In the indictment, the FBI said officials were to receive bribes totaling $20 million for the 2016 event. Datis had commercial rights agreements with CONMEBOL and CONCACAF and froze their bank account, putting the tournament in jeopardy. On October 21, 2015, CONCACAF announced that it would terminate the agreement with Datisa. On October 23, 2015, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the host association of the U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed that the tournament was taking place as originally intended. The Trophy trophy was designed exclusively for this edition of the New Trophy was to be created for the tournament and was to be presented on July 4, 2015 at the 2015 America's Cup final. No trophy was presented amid FIFA's corruption scandal. However, CONMEBOL announced that the trophy will be presented in Bogota, Colombia, on 28 April 2016. On April 28, 2016, the America's Cup website explained that the new trophy was actually memorable, and would only be given to the winning country to keep, while the original silver trophy would continue to be awarded to each winner of the tournament (including the 2016 winner). The Centenario trophy retains the silhouette of the original trophy greek urn, but is lined with matte gold. The front of the trophy is decorated with a raised (and in the case of some parts of the logo engraved) with the word and logo of the Cup of America Centenario. On each side are raised and polished images of the United North and South America, dedicated to the first America's Cup, which is held outside South America. Instead of the traditional wooden base, which has the names of all past winners, the basis of the Centenario commemorative trophy includes 16 zones engraved with the names of all 16 nations. Other details include: CONMEBOL and CONCACAF logos (two confederations with representatives in the tournament), the years 1916-2016 (in honor of the 100th anniversary of CONMEBOL and the Copa del Siglo), as well as the phrases La Copa del Siglo (Cup of the Century) and the Unification of America. Host of choice Luis Chiriboga, president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation said that United and Mexico was the potential hosts of at least one stage of the competition. Havil preferred that the competition be held in the United States for financial reasons, stating that the market is in the United States, the stadiums are in the United States, people are in the United States. The research we've done shows that everything is in the United States. In July 2012, CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb stated that more needs to be done. On May 1, 2014, it was announced that the tournament would be held in the United States from June 3 to June 26, 2016. The decision to choose the United States as host came under criticism from The President of the Uruguayan Football Association, Wilmar Valdez, on 7 June 2016, who complained that the United States was a country where they did not feel football and that it brings problems. According to him, the complaint was voiced after Uruguay's defeat by Mexico, in favor of which, in his words, this event was biased. Shortly before the game, the Chilean national anthem was played in error instead of the Uruguayan national anthem. On January 8, 2015, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL announced 24 U.S. metropolitan areas that showed interest in hosting matches. The stadiums were chosen at the end of the bidding process, with a minimum capacity of 50,000. The final list of sites, which is expected to be 8 to 13, was due to be announced in May 2015. However, the list has not been published, and speculation as to whether the tournament will move forward has emerged as Interpol received red notices for former presidents of the CONMEBOL and CONCACAF confederations in connection with a FIFA corruption case in 2015, including allegations that they received significant bribes in connection with a $112.5 million broadcasting deal. CONMEBOL officials have expressed a desire to move forward in this event despite the scandal. On November 19, 2015, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the U.S. Soccer Federation announced 10 places selected for the tournament. Pasadena, Ca., East Rutherford, N.J. (New York District) Houston, Texas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rose Bowl MetLife Stadium NRG Stadium NRG Financial Field Opportunities: 92,542 Capacity: 82.566 Capacity: 71,000 Capacity: 69,176 Foxborough, Foxborough, Massachusetts (Boston Area) PasadenaGlendaleOrlandoHoustonSeattleChicagoSanta ClaraPhiladelphiaAast RutherfordFoxboro Santa Clara, California (San Francisco Bay Area) Gillette Stadium Levi Stadium Capacity: 68,756 Capacity: 68,500 Seattle, Washington, Washington, Glen Illinois : 67,000 Capacity: 63,500 Capacity: 63,400 Capacity: 60219 Participating Teams On Official Tournament Announcement, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF that all ten CONMEBOL members will join the six CONCACAF teams in the tournament. The U.S. and Mexico automatically qualified. The remaining four places were given to Costa Rica, the Champions of the Central American Football Union by virtue of winning the 2014 European Cup, Jamaica, the Champions of the Caribbean Football Union by virtue of winning the 2014 Caribbean Cup, and Haiti and Panama, the two winners of the playoffs among the four best finalists of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, who have not yet qualified. CONMEBOL (10 teams) CONCACAF (6 teams) Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile (title holders) Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela USA (hosts and automatic qualifiers) Mexico (automatic qualifier) Costa Rica (winners 1 2014 Centroamericana Cup Jamaica (winners of the Caribbean Cup 2014) Haiti (winners of the Copa America Centenario qualifying playoffs) Panama (winners of the Copa America Centenario qualifying playoffs) Draw The Map of the participating countries. The group match schedule was announced on December 17, 2015. The United States (Group A) was seeded as host, while Argentina (Group D) were seeded as the highest FIFA team in the CONMEBOL region in December 2015. According to Soccer United Marketing, Brazil (Group B) and Mexico (Group C) were seeded because they were the most titled countries in the last 100 years in international competitions from their confederations. However, there has been criticism for not including Uruguay, which has won two World Cups and has been the leader of the America's Cup with 15 championships, or Chile, who have been America's Cup champions going into the tournament. The draw took place on February 21, 2016 at 19:30 EST, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.