The Copa America Centenario, referred to in English as the 2016
Centennial Copa America, is a appointed all-embracing men’s affiliation
football clash due to be captivated in the United States in 2016. The
antagonism is a anniversary of the centenary of CONMEBOL and Copa
América, and is to be the aboriginal Copa America hosted alfresco of
South America.
The tournament, which will be the 45th copy of Copa América back its
birth in 1916, will be captivated as allotment of an acceding amid
CONMEBOL (the South American football confederation) and CONCACAF (the
football amalgamation for North and Central America and the Caribbean)
as a appropriate copy amid the accustomed four-year cycle, and will
affection an broadcast acreage of 16 teams, with ten teams from CONMEBOL
and six teams from CONCACAF.
The champ will not accept a anchorage in the 2017 FIFA Confederations
Cup, as Chile accept already able as winners of the 2015 edition.
In February 2012, Alfredo Hawit, again Acting President of CONCACAF,
appear that the antagonism would be accustomed to yield abode in 2016,
as a anniversary of CONMEBOL’s centenary. CONMEBOL President Nicolás
Leoz said “Hopefully we can adapt a big event, because we accept 100
years and we wish to bless big.”
The clash was appear by CONMEBOL on 24 October 2012 and accustomed by CONCACAF on 1 May 2014.
On 26 September 2014, FIFA appear that the clash has been added to the
FIFA All-embracing Match Calendar, acceptation that clubs accept to
absolution players alleged up to the competition.
Sports controlling corruption
For added data on this topic, see 2015 FIFA bribery case.
The clash was placed in agnosticism afterwards several top contour
sports controlling arrests were fabricated including humans complex with
media rights holder Datisa (using the trading name of “Wematch”), a
affiliation amid three media rights companies; Full Play, Torneos and
Traffic Sports Marketing. In December 2014, Brazilian José Hawilla, the
buyer and architect of Traffic Sports appeal accusable “corruption
accuse including racketeering, wire artifice and money laundering”. In
an indictment, the FBI declared that admiral were to accept bribes
totalling US$20million for the 2016 event. Datisa captivated agreements
for the bartering rights with CONMEBOL and CONCACAF and had their coffer
annual arctic acceding the clash in jeopardy.[10] On 21 October 2015
CONCACAF appear that they had concluded their acceding with Datisa.
On 23 October 2015, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the hosting affiliation US
Soccer Federation all accustomed that the clash was traveling advanced
as originally intended.
A new bays was declared to be created for the clash and was to be
apparent on 4 July 2015 at the 2015 Copa América final. No bays was
apparent amidst the FIFA bribery scandal.
Luis Chiriboga, the President of the Ecuadorian Football Federation
declared the United States and Mexico were abeyant hosts of at atomic
one date of the competition. Hawit adopted the antagonism to be hosted
in the United States for banking reasons, advertence that “the bazaar is
in the United States, the stadiums are in the United States, the humans
are in the United States. The abstraction that we accept fabricated
[shows] that everything’s in the United States.” In July 2012, CONCACAF
President Jeffrey Webb declared there was abundant acclimation to be
done.
On 1 May 2014, it was appear that the clash would be captivated in the United States from 3–26 June 2016.
On 8 January 2015, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL appear the 24 U.S. city areas which accept adumbrated absorption in hosting matches.
The stadiums were called afterward a behest process, with the minimum
accommodation to be 50,000. The final account of venues, advancing to
amount amid 8 and 13, was to be appear in May 2015. However, the account
was not appear and belief apropos whether the clash will be able to
move advanced arose because Interpol red notices were issued for the
above presidents of the CONMEBOL and CONCACAF confederations in
affiliation to the 2015 FIFA bribery case, including allegations that
they accustomed cogent bribes in affiliation to the $112.5 actor
broadcasting accord for the event.[23] However, admiral from CONMEBOL
bidding a admiration to move advanced with the accident admitting the
scandal.
On 19 November 2015, the ten venues called for the clash were appear by CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and US Soccer
