Miami Steals The Show In The Copa America Draw

 The American city of Miami hosts the draw for the South American Football Championship (Copa America), which is being held in the United States of America. The draw is scheduled to take place on Thursday evening, local time, midnight on Friday, Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time), at one of the entertainment complexes in Miami, the capital of the US state of Florida. 16 teams will participate in the next edition of the Copa America, whose competitions will be held during the period from June 20 to July 14, 2024, noting that this is the second time that the competition is held outside South America after the 2016 edition, which was also hosted by the United States. The ten member countries of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) are present in the tournament directly, in addition to 6 teams from the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The six teams representing the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean will advance through the CONCACAF Nations League Championship, where the identity of 4 teams has already been identified, waiting for the final two places to be determined. The teams of the United States, Mexico, Jamaica and Panama officially qualified for the Copa America, after reaching the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Nations League, awaiting the winning teams from the promotion playoff, which includes the teams of Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago, which lost in the quarter-finals of the Nations League. The 16 participating teams will be distributed into 4 groups during the draw, with 4 teams in each group, which are classified into 4 levels based on the latest team classification issued by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). It is scheduled that the Argentine national team (the defending champion), and the top of the world rankings, will be at the head of the first group, while the Mexican national team, the winner of the title of the last edition of the CONCACAF Nations Cup (Gold Cup), will come in the first level of the second group. The United States team, which has the best global ranking among CONCACAF teams, is at the head of Group Three, while Brazil, which has the second best ranking among CONMEBOL teams, is chosen at the head of Group Four. As for the remaining 12 teams participating in the tournament, they were distributed into 3 other levels, according to the FIFA classification, as follows: Second level: Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Level Three: Chile, Panama, Venezuela, Paraguay. Fourth level: Jamaica and Boliva, the two teams that qualified from the CONCACAF Nations League playoff. During the draw, one team from each level will be selected to be placed in one of the four groups in the first round of the tournament. The winner and runner-up of each group will advance to the quarter-finals, which will be the first elimination round in the tournament, while the third- and fourth-place finishers from each group will officially bid farewell to the competition. The CONMEBOL and CONCACAF federations revealed the details of the 2024 Copa America stadiums, as 14 American cities will host the tournament competitions next summer. Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, will host the opening match, with the final match taking place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The quarter-final matches will be held on the fourth of July in Houston, the fifth of the same month in Arlington, Texas, and the sixth of the same month in Arizona and Las Vegas. The semi-finals will be held in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 9 and 10, respectively, while the third-place match will be held in Charlotte on the 13 of the same month.