2020 Copa America Draw Results: Argentina in a Difficult Group

DBasia.news –  The South American Football Federation (Conmebol) is holding the Copa America next year. The result, from the Southern Zone, the host, Argentina is in the same group as Uruguay and Chile based on the results of the 2020 Copa America 2020.

Albiceleste – Argentine’s nickname – will begin the opening group match of the South against Chile in Buenos Aires on June 12, 2020. Lionel Messi and colleagues are in a group with Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the Oceania team, Australia.

While in the Northern group, there are Colombia (the second host), Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and the defending champions of the Copa America 2019, Brazil, with invited teams from Asia, Qatar. The opening match of the Northern group brings Colombia to Ecuador in Campin, Bogota, on June 13, 2020.

The Copa America 2020 will be the last Copa America to be held for two consecutive years, as after 2020 the Copa America will be held based on the UEFA calendar – every four years.

Copa America 2020 will compete 38 matches between 12 teams: 10 regular teams from the South American continent, plus two invited teams: Australia and Qatar. Each team will play five matches in each group and eight representatives from both groups will advance to the quarter-finals.

Lionel Scaloni, coach of the Argentine national team, hopes that the 2020 Copa America is not the last for Lionel Messi, who recently won the sixth Ballon d’Or. As Messi will be 33 years old in 2020.

“I don’t know (if the 2020 Copa America is the last for Messi). I hope now he continues to play. But Argentina needs a trophy, more than him. I can’t promise anything, but I can say we will do everything to get to the final, “Scaloni explained in Sport-English.