The start of the oldest competition in continental football is approaching, more so than the World Cups themselves. The Copa América will be held again in the United States, like 8 years ago on the occasion of the centenary, and the world champion Argentine team will have the praise and commitment to defend the title brilliantly achieved in Brazil, in 2021.
Although the glory of Qatar captured all eyes, it is very difficult to separate ourselves from what that feat at the Maracaná meant, when Di María’s great goal gave the team the title that had been denied to it since 1993 (the last achievement had been the Copa América in Ecuador that year with Batistuta as a figure) and Lionel Messi the possibility of lifting for the first time a cup with the light blue and white that he has been defending brilliantly for so many years, shattering all the records one after another.
The multimedia El Litoral will be present again, as is customary in the 106 years of life that it is about to complete as the undisputed leading journalistic company in the entire region. With his head of Sports, Enrique Cruz, he will bring from the United States that Santa Fe view of an event that will awaken a very unique expectation throughout the continent in general and in Argentina in particular. And Santa Fe, with the consecrated figures of Lionel Messi, Angel Di María and the coach, Lionel Scaloni, continues to make people talk and become the basis of the football success of an entire country, just as happened in other moments of Argentine sporting life. , although in this case increased by the leading and stellar role of its representatives.
On our website and social networks, in the newspaper and also on CyD, our TV channel, we will carry out very special coverage of everything that happens in the United States starting on Thursday the 20th, the day on which the team’s debut will take place against to Canada in Atlanta. But in addition, we will add special productions and programs that we will announce so that all our followers and readers find themselves with a journalistic display that El Litoral, with its different platforms, has accustomed them to.
It is also a great commercial effort in these very difficult times that the country is experiencing, also committed to maintaining the quality that our people deserve. The Litoral cannot be immune to these events that mobilize passions and generate mobilizations and moments of great fervor and enthusiasm as only football is capable of providing in this country.
The Copa América has a very special significance, this time with the participation of 16 teams (teams belonging to Concacaf join), which makes it a hierarchical tournament, empowered to the maximum for this part of the continent and that will, on the other hand, have On the other hand, the fact of becoming the appetizer of what will be experienced in two years, when the United States – today the host country of this contest – organizes the 2026 World Cup together with Mexico and Canada.
Argentina will debut next Thursday against Canada in Atlanta; Then it will be their turn, on Tuesday the 25th, to face Chile in New Jersey and the group stage will conclude on Saturday the 29th, in Miami, when they will play the last game of group A against Peru. Then it will be the turn of the quarterfinals, semifinals and final, remembering that the tournament is divided into four groups of four teams each and the first and second of each one qualify.
