There will be a super Copa América 2024 that will be held in the United States and that will have 16 participants between Conmebol and Concacaf
Leo Messi, who will be 37 years old at the time, will defend the title won in 2021 at the Maracana in his farewell to the continental tournament
A super Copa América worthy of the best of the best. Leo Messi will have the opportunity to say goodbye to the continental competition with a tournament that has everything to rival the Euro. The 2024 edition will be held in the United States and will bring together 16 teams: ten from Conmebol, plus another six guests from Concacaf, that is, from North America and the Caribbean.
The competition, then, will choose the best from the entire continent and will serve as an appetizer for the 2026 World Cupwhich will also host the United States, along with Mexico and Canada.
For Leo this appointment will have a very special flavor for many reasons, all related to his recent successes with the Albiceleste. First of all, it will be the first tournament he faces after being crowned world champion in Qatar. He will do it at the age of 37, which, in theory, everything indicates that it could be his last Copa América, although with Leo It is already known that everything is possible.
Argentina will also defend the title. In 2021, in the midst of a pandemic and with a silent stadium without an audience, Messi and theirs made the machada to conquer their own maracanazo. They disbanded the Seleçao, which had neymar and all its stars (0-1), in what was the first title of the 10 with the albiceleste shirt.
Leo will also have the possibility of chaining his fourth trophy with his team under the baton of Lionel Scaloni, after the 2021 Copa América, the Conmebol-UEFA Champions Cup (with 0-3 that applied to Italy at Wembley) and the World Cup in Qatar.
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The Copa América 2024 is part of the strategic agreements between Conmebol and Concacaf to strengthen the different tournaments of clubs and teams throughout the continent.
In this context, women’s continental competitions between the two confederations and a new club tournament have also been approved.
And, in parallel, it has been agreed that there will be a kind of ‘Final Four’, which will be held for the first time in 2024, in which the two best South American teams and two representatives of Concacaf will participate.
