Argentina's national team celebrates a goal in the 2019 Copa América, held in Brazil.ALE CABRAL / Getty
The plans for the Copa América 2021 have received another tumble.
Conmebol, the governing body of South American football, has withdrawn the tournament headquarters to Argentina due to the Covid-19 crisis in the country.
On May 20, the same authorities took away the headquarters of Colombia due to the social instability that has shaken the country in the last month.
However, Conmebol has assured that it will value the proposals of other countries to organize, at the last minute, the tournament that is set to start on June 13.
CONMEBOL informs that in view of the present circumstances it has decided to suspend the organization of the Copa América in Argentina.
CONMEBOL analyzes the offer of other countries that showed interest in hosting the continental tournament.
- CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) May 31, 2021
The highest national team tournament in America was to be organized in 2020. The pandemic frustrated the organization of the event that was going to be organized in two host countries: Argentina and Colombia. It was the first time that two countries had distributed tournament matches. By 2021, with the start of vaccination against the coronavirus, the picture seemed a bit clear. On April 28, protests began in Colombia against the tax reform proposed by the president, Iván Duque. Protests escalated in the country despite Duque withdrawing the bill. After a troubled month, more than 50 deaths and thousands of injuries have been registered in the clashes between the police and the protesters.
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