Copa América Centenario 2016

Copa America Centenario
Soccer South American Championship 2016
Number of nations	16 (10 CONMEBOL + 6 CONCACAF)
South American champions	Chile (2nd title)
venue	United States
Opening game	3rd June 2016
Endgame	June 26, 2016
Games	32
Gates	91  (⌀: 2.84 per game)
spectator	1,483,855  (⌀: 46,370 per game)
Top scorer	Eduardo Vargas (6 goals)
Best player	Alexis Sánchez
Best goalkeeper	Claudio Bravo
yellow cards	138  (⌀: 4.31 per game)
Yellow-red cards	10  (⌀: 0.31 per game)
Red cards	5  (⌀: 0.16 per game)

The trophy of the Copa América Centenario

The Copa América Centenario was the 45th game of the South American continental championship in football and at the same time a special edition involving participants from the North American association CONCACAF . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the South American football association CONMEBOL  , the tournament took place outside of South America for the first time and was held in the USA . In addition to the ten participants in CONMEBOL, six participants in CONCACAF also took part in the tournament.

In the final, the 2015 Copa América final between Argentina and Chile was reissued . Just like there, it was 0-0 after 120 minutes. Chile prevailed 4-2 in the subsequent penalty shoot-out.

Planning and choice of the venue

The CONMEBOL President Nicolás Leoz announced in January 2012 that efforts were being made to unite the two American football associations CONMEBOL and CONCACAF and to host Pan-American continental championships in the future.

Shortly afterwards, the then incumbent CONCACAF President Alfredo Hawit announced that a tournament would take place in 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of the South American football association CONMEBOL. In an interview, CONMEBOL President Nicolás Leoz mentioned that Mexico was a possible host for the tournament, since Mexican clubs have been participating in the Copa Libertadores and the Mexican national team have been participating in the Copa America since 1993 and are both sportingly and economically important - without mentioning another potential host. Luis Chiriboga, President of the Ecuadorian Football Association , suggested that the tournament be held in the USA and Mexico. Alfredo Hawit recommended the USA instead of Mexico as the ideal and only host, as the country has a better stadium infrastructure, potentially higher stadium numbers and generally better marketing potential.

At the beginning of July 2012, the two presidents of the continental associations, Nicolás Leoz (CONMEBOL) and Jeffrey Webb (CONCACAF), met for the first exploratory talks in São Paulo . At these meetings, Webb justified why the Copa America was interesting for CONCACAF, among other things by saying that he saw a unique opportunity to organize a “real Copa America ”, which would enable both American associations to participate.

The tournament was announced by CONMEBOL on October 24, 2012. The American Football Association and CONCACAF then replied to the announcement of CONMEBOL, as the negotiations had not yet been concluded and no common consensus had yet been found.

On May 1, 2014, the tournament was officially confirmed during a joint press conference by CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. On September 26, 2014, FIFA announced that the tournament would be included in the official event calendar. As a result, the Copa América Centenario is recognized as an official tournament, at the same time the clubs are obliged to provide their players for the tournament.

corruption

→ Main article : Corruption in FIFA

The tournament was called into question after several top officials from FIFA, CONMEBOL and CONCACAF were arrested. They are accused of accepting bribes from sports media representatives and sports marketing companies from Datisa - a partnership between Full Play , Torneos and Traffic Sports - totaling over $ 150 million. In return, they are said to have received media, marketing and sponsorship rights for soccer tournaments in the USA and Latin America. These are incidents that go back to 1991.

In December 2014, the Brazilian José Hawilla, founder and sports marketer of Traffic Sports , was found guilty of “corruption charges including extortion, wire transfer fraud and money laundering”. In one indictment, the US FBI stated that officials received bribes totaling US $ 20 million for the Copa América Centenario. In the course of investigations by the US judiciary, several bank accounts were frozen, which is why the implementation of the tournament has meanwhile been questionable.

In connection with the US investigation, on June 3, 2015 , Interpol published an international request for arrest, a so-called Red Notice , for six people in relation to the corruption case at FIFA. These are the former CONCACAF President Jack Warner and CONMEBOL President Nicolás Leoz as well as four business people from the sports marketing sector: Alejandro Burzaco and Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, all three from Argentina, plus José Margulies from Brazil.

On October 21, 2015, CONCACAF announced that they had ended their collaboration with Datisa . A few days later, CONMEBOL also announced the end of its collaboration with Datisa .

On October 23, 2015, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the American Football Association officially announced that the tournament would take place despite the ongoing investigation.

Participating teams

Before the tournament was officially announced, there were several considerations about which and how many national teams should take part in the tournament. It was already clear at the beginning of the deliberations that all CONMEBOL members would be present at the tournament. However, it was still unclear how many CONCACAF participants should be able to qualify for the tournament. There were vague statements, including from CONMEBOL President Leoz and the President of the Ecuadorian Football Association Luis Chiriboga, that six or eight CONCACAF participants would take part in the tournament.

As with previous Copa América editions, visiting teams should be invited to the tournament. For example, Portugal , Italy , France , Spain and Japan were considered. However, participation by European teams would only have been possible if the tournament had not been scheduled largely parallel to the 2016 European Football Championship .

At the official press conference of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF on May 1, 2014 - and thus the official confirmation of the tournament - it was announced that the tournament will consist of 16 participants. All ten CONMEBOL members and six other CONCACAF participants will be there.

The USA as hosts and Mexico as visiting teams were already firmly qualified for the tournament. The other four participants are Costa Rica as the winner of the Copa Centroamericana 2014 , Jamaica as the winner of the Caribbean Cup 2014 and two national teams that qualify through the Gold Cup 2015 . Haiti , Cuba , Panama and Trinidad and Tobago were considered as participants in the 2015 Gold Cup who had not already qualified for the Copa America Centenario 2016 in any other way .

The two remaining places were played in play-offs , with Panama, as the best team not yet qualified for the Copa 2016 in the 2015 Gold Cup, faced Cuba, which was fourth-best of the teams not yet qualified in the Gold Cup. In addition, Trinidad and Tobago met Haiti, in a duel between the second and third best of the teams not yet qualified for the Copa 2016 at the Gold Cup 2015. The play-offs were played on January 8, 2016 at the Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City . Haiti defeated Trinidad and Tobago 1-0, Panama won 4-0 over Cuba.

This results in the participant field listed below:

10 from CONMEBOL	Argentina	Paraguay	Bolivia	Ecuador
	Peru	Brazil	Colombia	Uruguay
	Chile 2	Venezuela
6 from CONCACAF	USA 1	Mexico 3	Costa Rica 4	Jamaica 5
	Panama 6	Haiti 6
1 host and automatically qualified / 2 titleholder / 3 away side / 4 Qualified by winning the Copa Centroamericana 2014 5 Qualified by winning the Caribbean Cup 2014 / 6 Two teams that are characterized by play-offs as a result of their results at the Gold Cup 2015 qualified

Venues

24 metropolitan regions from 18 US states competed to host the games. The metropolitan regions were:

los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Phoenix Denver Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Boston Greater New York Baltimore Washington, DC Philadelphia Nashville Dallas Houston Atlanta Jacksonville Orlando Tampa Seattle

Mapping of the US metropolitan areas that have applied to host the event

• Arizona: Phoenix
• California: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco
• Colorado: Denver
• Washington, DC: Washington, DC
• Florida: Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa
• Georgia: Atlanta
• Illinois: Chicago
• Indiana: Indianapolis
• Maryland: Baltimore
• Massachusetts: Boston
• Michigan: Detroit
• Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis
• New York / New Jersey: Greater New York
• Ohio: Cleveland
• Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
• Tennessee: Nashville
• Texas: Dallas, Houston
• Washington: Seattle

The stadiums were selected as part of a tender process. Minimum requirements were placed on the stadiums, including a. a minimum capacity of 50,000 spectators. The final announcement of the venues should actually take place in May 2015, between eight and 13 stadiums should be selected. The announcement was delayed until November due to the investigations by the FBI and the corruption allegations (see section corruption ).

On November 19, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the US Football Association named the following ten stadiums as venues:

Seattle	Chicago	Philadelphia	Foxborough ( Greater Boston Metropolitan Area )
CenturyLink Field	Soldier Field	Lincoln Financial Field	Gillette Stadium
Capacity: 67,000	Capacity: 63,500	Capacity: 69,176	Capacity: 68,756
Santa Clara ( San Francisco Bay Area )	Pasadena Santa Clara Glendale Chicago Foxborough East Rutherford Philadelphia Houston Orlando Seattle		East Rutherford ( New York Metropolitan Area )
Levi's Stadium			MetLife Stadium
Capacity: 68,500			Capacity: 82,566
Pasadena ( Greater Los Angeles Area )	Glendale ( Phoenix Metropolitan Area)	Houston	Orlando
Rose Bowl Stadium	University of Phoenix Stadium	NRG Stadium	Camping World Stadium
Capacity: 92,542	Capacity: 63,400	Capacity: 71,795	Capacity: 60,219

The final was scheduled for June 26, 2016 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford . For the tournament, the artificial turf field was replaced with a natural turf cover .

draw

The group stage draw for the finals took place on February 21, 2016 in New York . The organizing committee had already set the pots and the schedule on December 17, 2015. The heads of the four groups were the host USA (Group A) and - due to the best placement in the FIFA world rankings of December 2015 of all participating national teams - Argentina (Group D) as well as Brazil (Group B) and Mexico (Group C) the most successful national teams of their respective continental associations. They formed pot 1, pot 3 comprised the four remaining national teams of the continental association CONCACAF. Pots 2 and 4 comprised the eight other national teams of the continental association CONMEBOL and were filled according to the FIFA world rankings of December 2015.

Pot 1: USA (Group A), Brazil (Group B), Mexico (Group C) and Argentina (Group D).

Lottery pot 2: Chile (5th), Colombia (8th), Uruguay (11th) and Ecuador (13th).

Lottery pot 3: Costa Rica (37th), Jamaica (54th), Panama (64th) and Haiti (77th).

Lottery pot 4: Paraguay (46th), Peru (47th), Bolivia (68th) and Venezuela (83rd).

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	United States	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
2.	Colombia	3	2	0	1	006: 400	+2	06th
3.	Costa Rica	3	1	1	1	003: 600	−3	04th
4th	Paraguay	3	0	1	2	001: 300	−2	01

June 3, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. (June 4 at 3:30 a.m. CEST) in Santa Clara
United States	-	Colombia	0: 2 (0: 2)
June 4, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. (11:00 p.m. CEST) in Orlando
Costa Rica	-	Paraguay	0-0
June 7, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 8 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Chicago
United States	-	Costa Rica	4: 0 (3: 0)
June 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. (June 8 at 4:30 a.m. CEST) in Pasadena
Colombia	-	Paraguay	2: 1 (2: 0)
June 11, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 12 at 1:00 a.m. CEST) in Philadelphia
United States	-	Paraguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
June 11, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 12 at 3:00 a.m. CEST) in Houston
Colombia	-	Costa Rica	2: 3 (1: 2)

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Peru	3	2	1	0	004: 200	+2	07th
2.	Ecuador	3	1	2	0	006: 200	+4	05
3.	Brazil	3	1	1	1	007: 200	+5	04th
4th	Haiti	3	0	0	3	001:120	−11	00

June 4, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. (June 5 at 1:30 a.m. CEST) in Seattle
Haiti	-	Peru	0: 1 (0: 0)
June 4, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 5 at 4:00 a.m. CEST) in Pasadena
Brazil	-	Ecuador	0-0
June 8, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. (June 9 at 1:30 a.m. CEST) in Orlando
Brazil	-	Haiti	7: 1 (3: 0)
June 8, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 9 at 4:00 a.m. EDT) in Glendale
Ecuador	-	Peru	2: 2 (1: 2)
June 12, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. (June 13 at 12:30 a.m. CEST) in East Rutherford
Ecuador	-	Haiti	4: 0 (2: 0)
June 12, 2016 at 8:30 p.m. (June 13 at 2:30 a.m. CEST) in Foxborough
Brazil	-	Peru	0: 1 (0: 0)

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Mexico	3	2	1	0	006: 200	+4	07th
2.	Venezuela	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	07th
3.	Uruguay	3	1	0	2	004: 400	± 0	03
4th	Jamaica	3	0	0	3	000: 600	−6	00

June 5, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. (11:00 p.m. CEST) in Chicago
Jamaica	-	Venezuela	0: 1 (0: 1)
Glendale on June 5, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (June 6 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Glendale
Mexico	-	Uruguay	3: 1 (1: 0)
June 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. (June 10 at 1:30 a.m. CEST) in Philadelphia
Uruguay	-	Venezuela	0: 1 (0: 1)
June 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 10 at 4:00 a.m. CEST) in Pasadena
Mexico	-	Jamaica	2: 0 (1: 0)
June 13, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 14 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Houston
Mexico	-	Venezuela	1: 1 (0: 1)
June 13, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 14 at 4:00 a.m. CEST) in Santa Clara
Uruguay	-	Jamaica	3: 0 (1: 0)

Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Argentina	3	3	0	0	010: 100	+9	09
2.	Chile	3	2	0	1	007: 500	+2	06th
3.	Panama	3	1	0	2	004:100	−6	03
4th	Bolivia	3	0	0	3	002: 700	−5	00

June 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 7 at 1:00 a.m. CEST) in Orlando
Panama	-	Bolivia	2: 1 (1: 0)
June 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 7th at 4:00 a.m. CEST) in Santa Clara
Argentina	-	Chile	2: 1 (0: 0)
June 10, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 11 at 1:00 a.m. CEST) in Foxborough
Chile	-	Bolivia	2: 1 (0: 0)
June 10, 2016 at 8:30 p.m. (June 11 at 3:30 a.m. CEST) in Chicago
Argentina	-	Panama	5: 0 (1: 0)
June 14, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 15 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Philadelphia
Chile	-	Panama	4: 2 (2: 1)
June 14, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 15 at 4:00 a.m. EDT) in Seattle
Argentina	-	Bolivia	3: 0 (3: 0)

Final round

Geographical overview of the participants and their placement:
Tournament winner	third place	Quarter finals
finalist	fourth place	Group stage

In the final round, in the event of a tie after the regular playing time, the winner will be determined as follows:

• A direct penalty shoot-out follows in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the third place match . There is no extension .
• A regular 30-minute extra time will be played in the final. If after this time the game is a draw, a penalty shoot-out follows.

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	June 16, 2016
	United States	2
					June 21, 2016
	Ecuador	1
					United States	0
	June 18, 2016
					Argentina	4th
	Argentina	4th
									June 26, 2016
	Venezuela	1
									Argentina	0 (2)
	17th June 2016
									Chile	0 (4) 1
	Peru	0 (2)
					June 22, 2016
	Colombia	10 (4) 1
					Colombia	0			Game for third place
	June 18, 2016
					Chile	2
	Mexico	0							United States	0
	Chile	7th							Colombia	1
									June 25, 2016

¹ win on penalties

Quarter finals

June 16, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. (June 17 at 3:30 a.m. CEST) in Seattle
United States	-	Ecuador	2: 1 (1: 0)
June 17, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 18 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in East Rutherford
Peru	-	Colombia	0: 0, 2: 4 i. E.
June 18, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 19 at 1:00 a.m. CEST) in Foxborough
Argentina	-	Venezuela	4: 1 (2: 0)
June 18, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 19 at 4:00 a.m. CEST) in Santa Clara
Mexico	-	Chile	0: 7 (0: 2)

Semifinals

June 21, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 22 at 3:00 a.m. CEST) in Houston
United States	-	Argentina	0: 4 (0: 2)
June 22, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (June 23 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Chicago
Colombia	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 2)

3rd place match

June 25, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. (June 26 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in Glendale
United States	-	Colombia	0: 1 (0: 1)

final

June 26, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (June 27 at 2:00 a.m. CEST) in East Rutherford
Argentina	-	Chile	0: 0 a.d., 2: 4 i. E.

Awards

Best player

•  Alexis Sánchez was named the best player of the tournament.

Top scorer

•  Eduardo Vargas was the tournament's top scorer with six goals. He scored two goals in the group stage against Panama and four goals in the quarterfinals against Mexico, in which he was also elected Man of the Match .

Best goalkeeper

•  Claudio Bravo was named the tournament's best goalkeeper. In six games he went three times without conceding a goal - all in the knockout phase - and thus had a large share in winning the title.

Fair play award

•  Argentina received the award as the fairest team in the tournament.

Team of the tournament

In addition, the technical commission put together the team for the tournament:

goalkeeper	Defense	midfield	striker
Claudio Bravo	Mauricio Isla Nicolás Otamendi Gary Medel Jean Beausejour	Javier Mascherano Arturo Vidal Charles Aránguiz	Lionel Messi Eduardo Vargas Alexis Sánchez

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the tournament. If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

rank	player	Gates
1	Eduardo Vargas	6th
2	Lionel Messi	5
3	Gonzalo Higuaín	4th
4th	Philippe Coutinho	3
	Clint Dempsey	3
	Alexis Sánchez	3
7th	Renato Augusto	2
	Carlos Bacca	2
	Erik Lamela	2
	José Pedro Fuenzalida	2
	Ezequiel Lavezzi	2
	Blow Pérez	2
	Edson Puch	2
	James Rodríguez	2
	Salomón Rondón	2
	Enner Valencia	2
	Arturo Vidal	2
15th	43 players	1

There are also three own goals: Álvaro Pereira (Uruguay) in the first group game against Mexico, Frank Fabra (Colombia) in the last group game against Costa Rica and Je-Vaughn Watson (Jamaica) in the last group game against Uruguay.

referee

On May 5, 2016, CONCACAF and CONMEBOL announced 17  referees plus two assistant referees each . Eight other supporting referees (e.g. as fourth official ) add up to the total of 59 referees from 19 countries who directed the games.

referee	Linesman	Games				Remarks
Patricio Loustau	Ezequiel Brailovsky Ariel Mariano Scime	3	11	0	1
Gery Vargas	Javier Bustillos Juan P. Montaño	1	2	0	0
Héber Lopes	Kléber Gil Bruno Boschilia	3	13	2	1	final
Wilton Sampaio	Gustavo Rossi ( ) Alexander León ( )	1	1	0	0	Originally intended as a supporting referee
Julio Bascuñán	Carlos Astroza Christian Schiemann	2	14th	1	0
Wilmar Roldán	Alexander Guzmán Wilmar Navarro	2	8th	2	1
Wilson Lamouroux	Alexander Guzmán Corey Parker ( )	1	2	0	0	Originally intended as a supporting referee
Ricardo Montero	Octavio Jara Juan Mora	1	7th	0	0
Yadel Martínez	Hiran Dopico Cristian Ramírez ( )	1	6th	0	0
Roddy Zambrano	Luis Vera Juan Macias	2	6th	0	0
Joel Aguilar	Juan Zumba William Torres	2	14th	2	0
Roberto García Orozco	José Luis Camargo Alberto Morín	2	6th	0	0	Opening game
John Pitti	Daniel Williamson Gabriel Victoria	1	5	0	0
Enrique Cáceres	Eduardo Cardozo Milciades Saldívar	2	7th	2	0
Victor Carrillo	Jorge Yupanqui Coty Carrera	2	9	0	1
Mark Geiger	Charles Morgante Joe Fletcher ( )	1	2	0	0
Jair Marrufo	Peter Manikowski Corey Rockwell	1	5	0	0
Andrés Cunha	Nicolás Taran Richard Trinidad	1	3	0	0
Daniel Fedorczuk	Nicolás Taran Richard Trinidad	2	12	1	1	Originally intended as a supporting referee
José Argote	Luis Murillo Luis Sánchez	1	5	0	0

Television broadcast

In Germany, the rights to broadcast live were acquired from ProSiebenSat.1 Media . Some of the games were broadcast by broadcasters kabel eins and Sat.1 , which belong to the media group : Kabel eins broadcast twelve of the 24 preliminary round matches, and Sat.1 broadcast seven knockout matches from the quarterfinals. The broadcast of the Copa America on Sat.1 was programmatically paired with the broadcast of 6 group matches of the 2016 European Football Championship . In addition, all games of the tournament were on ran.de as Internet live stream available. All past games of the tournament were on ran.de again as video-on-demand available. For Sat.1, one cable and ran.de commented Markus Götz , Hansi Kuepper and Uwe Morawe .

No buyer could be found for the broadcasting rights in Austria and Switzerland.

Controversy

Group game Mexico - Uruguay

On June 5, during the group match between Mexico and Uruguay in Glendale , the national anthem of Chile was incorrectly played instead of the national anthem of Uruguay . Many Uruguayan players seemed confused when the Chilean anthem was played. The Uruguayan anthem was never played. In a statement, the organizer apologized for this mistake to the "Association of Uruguay, the national team, the people and the fans". Playing the wrong anthem was a human mistake. Uruguayan players like Diego Fagúndez and Álvaro Pereira later spoke of "disrespect".

Group game Panama - Bolivia

On June 6th, a false Bolivian flag was displayed on the video wall during the group match between Panama and Bolivia in Orlando . The national flag consists of three horizontal stripes of equal size: red at the top, yellow in the middle and green at the bottom. On the video wall, however, the national flag was displayed in green at the top, yellow in the middle and red at the bottom.

Group game Argentina - Chile

On June 6th, during the group game between Argentina and Chile in Santa Clara, the second half of the Chilean anthem was interrupted by a song by rapper Pitbull . The anthem did not sound again afterwards, but the Chileans continued to sing their anthem.

Web links

Commons : Copa América Centenario  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the tournament (English)
• Official website of CONCACAF (English, Spanish)
• Official website of CONMEBOL (English, Spanish, Brazilian )

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