What On Earth Is Going On With The Copa America? 

Welcome to South America, where nothing makes sense and everyone just goes with the flow

CONMEBOL: *chaos* Suriname in Concacaf: "what y'all talking about here I'm just chilling"

Good thing you said it was a joke! I was almost believing Messi was somehow responsible for 5% GDP lol.

The world cup host will never be chosen on football reasons ever again. The Qatar world cup has all but assured that

It just seems bizarre to hold it during the same time as the euros, surely they’d get more viewers in an off year

COPA America 2021: *moves to Brazil* Me: It's evolving, just backwards

As a Brazilian i was already facepalming everytime i heard of this competition. But listening an outsider talk about it in pure disapointment and disbelief is gold. We don't understand all this bullshit, as bad as UEFA can be, you are lucky not to deal with Conmebol

These videos are outstanding. Thank you for the consistent and amazing content!

I was lucky enough to go to 7 games of Copa America 2011 in Argentina, including the final. Great tournament and I've paid attention to it since, but they are not organised at all.

I'm from Colombia and your description was right. People are exercising its right to protesting and they are being killed for it. #SOSColombia.

My RU-vid Football GOAT has done it again. Another class video Alfie, finally some insight on this fiasco surrounding the Copa América.

13:27 I almost took that seriously

Copa America isn't just "blatant cheating" or "scandal" ..it's probably one of the most unpredictable tournaments. Last tournament, Peru made it to the finals. A lot of teams fight till the death. Tbh the euros could be boring sometimes plus their format is faulty too. Regardless, I'm excited to see both tournaments

No one: Alfie: Cop-er America 😂

The joint bid of Colombia and Argentina which aren’t neighbouring countries is just as ludicrous as hosting the Euros in many European countries and why because sometimes the teams would need to travel to one game which could be played in London and they could have another game in Baku.

I've always wondered what would happned if both south American and north American countries participated in the tournament playing qualifying games beforehand sort of like the euros

The deaths by police violence in Colombia is closer to 60, there's hundreads of missing people and in a country where half the population (about 25 million people) lives below the poverty line, the government has repeatedly increased spending on the police and the military. Thank you so much Alfie for bringing attention to such important issues that no one seems to care about with another amazing video. #NosEstánMatando

Somehow I find myself respecting Tulio Maravilha...he's like Barry Hayles, he just loves playing football at any level, top flight, third division, non-league, Sunday league, he doesn't care as long as he's got a ball at his feet and a smile on his face. And a ball coincidentally coming into contact with his hand in a Copa America quarter-final, clearly. That too.

The EUROS have the same nonsense group format. More than 50% of group games won't have any meaning, since you can literaly lose the first 2 games, and win the last and still progress.

I'm a Kiwi & the Copa America's my 2nd favorite tournament behind the World Cup. Passion! You summed it up.

if the copa america is more dysfunctional than the afcon then 😂

I like how this is a video about Football but just caught me up on months of World News at the same time 😅

Finally, I've been waiting so long to see Brazil lining-up as in FIFA

Too often football in South America has been used by various regimes over the years for their own political ambitions and it still suffers even today as a result.

As someone from mexico i think the copa america is so stupid the whole format and inviting nations that arent even from the continent is just plain stupid

Thanks for covering this! Im Brazilian, living in the US, and this was a lot of great info. I always hear my family's side of politics and this showed me how its twisted in football.

He retired football aged 50 EXCUSE ME. Blessing to everyone in South America corruption is real stay safe

Some journalists in Chile claimed that CONMEBOL approached Chilean football federation before Brazil's, but they didn't agree on which level of covid restrictions games would be. Of course, CONMEBOL want games as normal as possible to more money out of them, and Bolsonaro was happy to accept that. Actually one the stadiums being used is in Manaus, one of the cities worst hit by covid. It's insane.

8:40 tbf the Euros have a similar problem of one team disadvantaged by long travelling. One team will play their quarter final in Azerbaijan and take a 6 hour flight to play at Wembley just 4 days later. Meanwhile their opponents travel from Rome

I really wanted to click on another video but this video was so articulate I was 'forced' to watch through. This is brilliant work.

thanks for talking about this, alfie. i'm brazilian, and being here right now sucks

Great video, mate! I'd only ad a comment about the CBF pro-Bolsonaro stand while their president, Rogério Caboclo, is accused of sexual rarassment of a employee and at the moment is away from his job.

"Cheating, bloody rivalries, violence." Mira como se emociono Bilardo

UEFA: We are the most corrupt entity in Football CONMEBOL: Hold my Neymar

8:02 "It is a bizarre format" *cries in 1996 Cricket World Cup*

2 minutes in and I can already tell this video will be a masterpiece

Hitc I'm a American fan of your content keep up the good work mate

Conmebol: “Chaos is a ladder.” HITC Sevens: “🤣”

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Colombian here, great coverage dude, keep it up.

honestly this tournament is crazy, but i love watching it every time. Hoping Argentina show sparks this year.

I haven't watched much south American football but want to get into this, and it's crazy place to start, thanks for the video hope you can make more on the situation

A video on CONMEBOL and/or the AFA would be wonderful too. In fact, while you're at it, why not give us a top 7 ranking of Football Associations (administrative organizations) at each respective major tournament.

Hey. Brazilian here. Just want to clarify a little bit about our political situation! We have a real problem with the radicalization of the right wing ideologies in our country. Brazil was governed by the Worker's Party ("Partido dos Trabalhadores") for about 14 years. At the start, we had a great time, with economy blooming and reaching a great situation around the year 2009. But after that, we had a serious economical downfall, wich led to a lot of backslash against Dilma, the successor of Lula. After the July 2013 protests, wich was caused by an state of unrrest about the problematic representation in our politics, Dilma was take off charge amid her second mandate. In 2018, Bolsonaro used the insatisfaction of the middle class with the Worker's Party to win the elections. About the representation problem: we don't really have strong ideology bases in the political parties. For starters: Worker's Party is widely accused by the left of having sold out for the enterprises. We don't really have a solid Socialist's Party, with the strongest one ideologically being PSOL, wich never gets many seats. We have PSDB (party of FHC, the president before Lula), wich have Social-Democracy in the name, but is actually a Christian Democracy party. We have a Progressist Party, wich is one of the CONSERVATIVE ones. The Liberal Party is also a strong Conservative one. The Democratic Party ("Democratas") is compose of the political heirs of the 1964~1985 Militar Dictartorship. And there's a lot of other problematic names. As of this moment, President Bolsonaro does not have a party. He was elected with the number of PSL ("Social Liberal Party"), a party wich USED to be left wing, but was took over by politicians that wanted him to go there before the election. The party elected a lot of right wing people with speechs that goes all over: from neoliberals to neofascists (even some that defend death penalty for those who steal, even if it is made by people who steal to eat). But after some fights over control of the party, Bolsonaro and his closest allies (many of wich are his sons) left the party. They then tried to creat a new party, Aliança pelo Brasil (Alliance for Brazil), with a name derived from a slogan used by the militar command of our last dictartorship. It failed. After that, Bolsonaro is making a move to get control of another party, Patriotas (Patriots), a small right-wing party with a lot of conservatives already stablished. In Brazil, as in US, the candidates can get private money to run the campaigns. One of the enterprises that donated money to Bolsonaro campaign was EMS, a farmaceutical company that produces Hydroxycloroquina, the drug that Bolsonaro told brazilian people that we should use to prevent Covid-19. It was then proved that it does not work, but Bolsonaro is stil saying people should take it. He also refused to buy Pfizer Vaccines or to help the production of national vaccines. Pfizer was refused because Bolsonaro wants to keeps the government spending at the minimun, no matter how many lives are lost, because a lot of his faithful electors are liberals. The national vaccine problem is because the major vaccine reasearch company in Brazil actually belong to São Paulo State, wich is governed by Dória, apointed by the media as one of the two major favorites do win next election against Bolsonaro for the presidency. We have now a investigation committee in our congress, wich eventfully became to be run by some major opposition names. This committee suspects that Bolsonaro strategy against Covid was to let people die until herd immunity was reached, trying to reduce the economic impact a lockdown would cause. All because he and his allies think they get a better chance in the election with people dying of Covid then with the economy in a bad shape.

as a Colombian myself, I find it almost amusing that finally somebody spoke about what's happening in our country. And the thing is, for us here, this gives of vibes of certain evil people in germany during the 30's-40's, it is insane Just an extra fact, the president's last name is Duque, not Márquez. Márquez is his second last name... in spanish speaking countries, we alway show our father's and mother's last name, in that order, so I do understand why Alfie called him Márquez. Anyway, thanks for that Alfie

It is astounding CONMEBOL wouldn't try and work with Argentina given the massive problems elsewhere...oh that Latin temperament...

Political and Social issues directly affects sports. It is not only impossible to separate but unethical to ignore. The Olympic Committee have historically banned athletes from highlighting political or social issues to its events. This to me is a statement that an athlete is appreciated only for his skill not for his life.

4 Copa america in the last 6 years = Tryna give messi the title

Idk if Algiers says it in the video, but Alisson and a few other Brazilian national team members have been convinced to participate. In the matter of which they announced the statement and what it specifically says, CONMEBOL definitely seems to be the antagonist if this story.

They should make a tournament where countries from all over the world meet and play in a selected country

Planning a tournament by moving it to a country that is in a worse state... makes perfect sense.

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I'm Brazilian and can confirm Alfie is the best football journalist there is

HITC Sevens: The Copper America Subtitles: The Copper America

Australia getting into Eurovision and now Australia getting their way into the copa america 😭 what the actual fuck

For my selfish reasons, I would love for the tournament to be hosted by the US. I could only imagine watching messi and neymar live from the stands.

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After the game against Paraguay, the Brazilian team collective sent a note to the press stating that, while they're against the Copa America being played, they will play in the tournament regardless. I couldn't be more ashamed of the seleção. Honestly, I haven't been even able to root for them since 2004.

Amazing Video! As a Brazilian i can confirm most of what you said in this video. Its a fact most brazilian Slecao players support Bolsonaro however i would dispute their influence in his election. The idea of hosting the copa during this crisis is just ridiculous.

This is a great video HITC, thanks for the explanation. What a shambles.

Brasil is more like Disorder and Decline. Ordem e Progresso means Order and Progress.

Great video again. Concise in the midst of chaos.

the fact that Australia and Qatar are included baffles me

Much appreciated from Brooklyn! I really enjoy your videos!

Welcome to south America, where inefficiency, extreme corruption and wasted potential is an every day thing and people somehow are fine with it.

Thank you for explaining everything! Such fascinating series of events.

I can remember when Ronaldo (9) scored a hat-trick of pens in a game, I think it might have been against Argentina, although don't quote me on that final part lol

Another great video. Keep up the great work mr. Sevens!

The rule requiring members of national teams to be vaccinated was lifted because it was implemented too soon for them to receive both shots. The opening game saw Venezuela play with 8 of their players out of the match due to covid infection. This tournament happening at all is a joke.

Fantastic video. Incredible chaos in South America

expecting south americans to organize something efficiently is like expecting north macedonia to win the euros

Amazing stuff, Alfie. Love these deep dives. Really hope they call off this tournament

Political issues here in Brazil and a huge hipocrisy by the players

"No trates de entenderla" - Chiqui Tapia 2018

Think a video needs to be made on how Argentina can produce so many attacking players yet defenders, especially cbs, are such a poor bunch, threw away a 2-0 lead last night & they STILL play Otamendi

Enjoy your work. But I think this is the type of video is where you excel. As always, thank you good sir.

They should’ve just let the usa 🇺🇸 host it. We’ve controlled the virus... well mostly, and we have large migrant populations so people would turn up. And sporting events here are almost full capacity. Only downside is South American fans wouldn’t be able to come watch the games but the game were only gonna have 65 people anyway so that wouldn’t matter

Copa America week 2: a referee actively participated on a play that led to a Brazilian goal

Just cancel the whole damn thing....

Alfei, one day I’ll be across the pong and I’d love to grab a pint, you’re pure class. Cheers

I am starting feel like its a glorified friendlies. Its being played every year or so. 4 Copas in 6 years!!! Personally i believe it has lost the prestigious value it could have if they held the tournament every 4 years like WC and Euro.

your videos are of high quality and quality information... thank you sir

Fuerza Colombia #nosestanmatando 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴

I’m Brazilian and it is a shame for us how accurate this video is! Unfortunately the situation is not easy and the government thinks more about money (corruption) than in saving lives, the worst part is that there are a lot of people still believing in this “misgovernment”.

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Great analyses, great video! If I wouldn’t agree, you would hear from me as well. So just trying to honest here. Keep up that good work!

Given the political and Covid issues in many of these countries, I’m amazed that the tournament is taking place at all. I suppose it makes sense to align it with Euro 2020 so that players are away from their clubs at the same time.

I saw Martin Palermo play once. He didn't score any penalties, but he didn't miss any either.

When you include Qatar and Australia in an American tourney you know it's a joke tourney.

I love when you talk about Brazilian football, mate. #ForaBolsonaro

It's so depressing to watch this at this time. I mean, football it's a celebration, it's about hapiness (unless u're a cruzeiro fan, as myself) not closed statiums with players who doesn't care about the country

I don't get how a continent will be celebrating 100 years of a tournament, but then host the celebratory tournament outside of their own continent, classic CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL... making UEFA and FIFA look good by comparison 🤣

Final product: Brazil 2021 Final: Argentina vs Brazil

It would probably help if they didn't have such inconsistent years in which they hold its like its every year they after 5 years they decide to stop if for 2 years its run so poorly

So.... Argentina was stripped of their hosting rights because they asked for stricter anti-covid-measures? Sounds like Argentina was way more responsible than some hosts of the Euros. I guess shame on Conmebol and Uefa alike

God forbid we push back the regular as clockwork Copa America. They've always hosted this tournament whenever they feel like it. Just push it back a year when the participating nations are less civil unresty and less pandemicky.

In this and other worlds,I am the 3rd liker of this video but extremely so sad with the CONMEBOL for complicating the plan of the Copa America tournament by awarding host nation to Brazil,a country where one of the most coronavirus cases which are spreading rapidly throughout the country there despite removing the co host nations of Argentina and Colombia due to the relevant reasons!!!:(In my opinion,the host nation priority should have given to either by the co hosting system to be given to both Paraguay and Uruguay or sole host nation of Venezuela to solve this matter in a simple way if the South American football association would have an idea to solve this simple issue in a constructive matter instead of creating confusions out of the entire footballing viewers throughout,good friends!!!I am an extremely so huge footballing supporter of men's South American football and the real footballing atmosphere can only be found in the region ever,good friends!!!:-D

Eddie Howe, without Freddy Adu

I freaking lov u!!!!! Still need to make a video of south american or colombian football!