No World Cup?

There's always Copa Panamericana

Consensus is that the US was robbed of the 2022 World Cup. Well, here comes the next best thing. And it even comes six years earlier!

The president of the Ecuadorean soccer federation, whose brother is on the CONMEBOL executive committee, told Mexican media that the USA iis to host the special 2016 Copa América in celebration of the South American confederation's 100-year anniversary - Copa Panamericana.

Hopefully we can organize a big event, because we have 100 years and we want to celebrate big,". Hawit, however would prefer the competition to be hosted in United States for financial reasons stating that "the market is in the United States, the stadiums are in the United States, the people are in the United States. The study that we have made [shows] that everything’s in the United States."

CONCACAF officially commented on the competition in July 2012, CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb commented that there was much organizing to be done. Chiriboga noted that the special edition of the Copa América would feature 16 teams: 10 from South America and six from CONCACAF. Apparently there would be a qualification process to determine the six CONCACAF nations. If US fans thought that was big news, the Ecuadorean chief also mentioned that the US would likely get an inivitation to participate in the 2015 Copa América in Brazil.

Participants
10 CONMEBOL teams will participate along with six teams from the CONCACAF region.

CONMEBOL
1. Argentina
2. Bolivia
3. Brazil
4. Chile
5. Colombia
6. Ecuador
7. Paraguay
8. Peru
9. Uruguay
10. Venezuela

CONCACAF
1. United States (host)
2. Mexico (invitee)
3-6 Four other nations with best results in 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Canada
Guatemala
Belize
Honduras
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana
Suriname
Bahamas
Puerto Rico
Guadeloupe
Bermuda
French Guiana
Haiti
Saint Lucia
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Grenada
Martinique
Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint-Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pan_Am...ampionship