This Friday, CONMEBOL’s biggest international tournament will begin on Brazilian soil when the match between Brazil and Bolivia kicks off the 2019 Copa America. Chile will try to defend their back-to-back titles won in 2015 and 2016, but a plethora of teams will aim to stop La Roja’s out-of-nowhere winning run earlier this decade.
This time, we’ll take a deeper look at Group A. It features the host nation, Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Brazil
La Canarinha will undoubtedly be weakened without Neymar, who suffered an injury during Brazil’s 2-0 win over Qatar in a recent friendly match. However, Tite’s men have enough depth, quality and experience to be considered as one of the candidates in the tournament. Playing at home should favour them, and the fact that so…