Brazil Opportunities for Copa America 2024 – The battle between the 16 best teams on the American continent will be presented at the 2024 Copa America which starts Friday (21 June 2024) at 07.00 WIB. Defending champion Argentina remains the favorite to take the trophy home from the United States. However, the young Brazilian team has a strong desire to prove its quality.
Brazil Opportunities for Copa America 2024
oragoo – Argentina has the honor of opening a special edition of the Copa America next Friday against Canada. Lionel Messi and his friends’ first match will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. In terms of attendance, the 2024 Copa America will be the second time that teams from two confederations, CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF (North and Central America), have been represented. It was first introduced at the 2016 Copa America Centenario.
As happened eight years ago, the 2024 Copa America will be attended by 16 teams and will be held in the richest country on the American continent apart from the United States. A total of 10 teams are members of CONMEBOL, then 6 more teams from CONCACAF. CONCACAF representatives are selected based on performance in the 2022-2023 CONCACAF National League. No wonder, La Albiceleste, the defending champions and champions of the 2022 World Cup and the top of the current FIFA standings, are the strongest favorites to win the 2024 World Cup in America. The composition of Argentina’s squad is not much different compared to December 2022, when they became world rulers in Qatar.
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Messi remains at the center of the game. Angel Di Maria, who will retire from the Argentine national team after the tournament, will continue to be supported by experienced players such as Emi Martínez, Rodrigo de Paul and Nicolas Otamendi. To compensate, coach Lionel Scaloni also brought in key players for the Qatar 2022 tournament, namely Julián Álvarez and Lautaro Martínez. Both will face competition from Nicolas Gonzalez and teenage striker Alejandro Garnacho.
Therefore, Opta considers Argentina to be a team that likes to win. The probability of Argentina retaining the title of Champion of the Americas is estimated at 30.8%. In fact, Argentina has a 50.5% chance of advancing to the final.
Seeing the strength of the competitors in Group A, Argentina will be able to easily beat the other three teams, namely Canada, Chile and Peru. Canada and Peru have the strength behind Argentina, but Chile, who beat Canada and Peru in the 2016 Copa America Centenario final, lost a golden generation player like Arturo Vidal.
Argentina is always the favorite to win. Especially since it happened after winning the World Cup. However, this tournament will be full of challenges and much more difficult.
Lionel Messi said on American TV, Tuesday (18 June 2024): “Argentina are always favorites to win, especially because they come after winning the World Cup. But this tournament is challenging and much more difficult.” That will happen, he said. Messi has the ambition to bring La Albiceleste to consecutive Copa America titles after ending the 28-year Copa America drought with Brazil 2021. If this mission is achieved, Argentina will become the first team to win the Copa America consecutively since 1991 and 1993.
youngest team
Brazil will compete in the 2024 Copa America as the youngest team in a major tournament in the last decade. The average age of the Brazilian national team is only 25.7 years. This makes “Selecao” the youngest team in CONMEBOL. If you add up all the participants, the Brazilian team is older than Costa Rica (24.7 years), the United States (25.2 years) and Canada (25.4 years).
Even though Brazil has a young team in the front line with Vinicius Junior (23 years), Rodrigo (23 years), Gabriel Martinelli (23 years), and Endrik (17 years), they are still the second seed behind Argentina a team. Opta gives the team coached by experienced coach Dorival Junior a 23.3 percent chance of winning. Brazil has a 28.8% chance of advancing to the final.
To support young players who have never shouldered big responsibilities in major tournaments before, Brazil is relying on an experienced squad consisting of captains Danilo, Marquinho and Alisson Becker. These three are the leaders of the Selecao team in the dressing room.
Therefore, there is really no reason why the Brazilian team performed poorly. Brazil did not repeat its negative record when it was eliminated in the Copa America Centenario qualifiers.
Real Madrid’s Brazilian center back, Eder Militão, believes that the loss of important players like Neymar and the presence of the younger generation in the Brazilian national team has not affected the quality of the Selecao squad in the slightest. The reason is, he sees that Brazil still has the same enthusiasm and excitement as the previous majors. Militao, who is part of Brazil’s squad for the 2019 Copa, said: “We can win the Copa America if we pay attention to every detail in preparation and matches.” “We also have to play with determination and excitement. in the field,” he said. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) website reports that the United States will win.
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If Brazil reaches the final and wins, it will be a big motivation for the 2026 World Cup which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. At least the young Brazilian players have a winning mentality before competing on the world stage.
Apart from that, the Brazilian team also had to face underestimation of the team’s quality. This was conveyed by one of their legends, Ronaldinho.
It was difficult to find the energy to watch the game (against Brazil in the 2024 Copa America). “Probably one of the worst teams we’ve played against in years,” said Ronaldinho, Saturday (15 June 2024) on his Instagram. “There are no respected coaches, there are only a lot of ordinary players,” he wrote in the video he uploaded to his Gram account.
However, before discussing the target of winning the league, Brazil must face three teams in Group D: Costa Rica, Colombia and Paraguay. If Brazil can fulfill their hopes of qualifying as group winners, they will have the opportunity to stage a dream final when they face Argentina in the final which will be held in Messi’s hometown of Miami, Florida, on July 14.
Apart from the two biggest forces in Latin American football, Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay also has the opportunity to become an alternative favorite. If that happens, CONCACAF’s two dominant players, the United States and Mexico, could also become obstacles to CONMEBOL’s top teams.
2024 Copa America Qualifying Round
Group A
1. Argentina
2. Peru
3. Chile
4. Canada
Group B
1.Mexico
2. Ecuador
3. Venezuela
4. Jamaica
Group C
1.United States
2. Uruguay
3.Panama
4. Bolivia
Group D
1. Brazil
2. Colombia
3. Paraguay
4. Costa Rica