Sixty two experts appointed

In 42 nights from now, edition number 47 from Copa America is going to commence, thus last Wednesday the South American confederation has revealed all judges for this magnificent event.

There are 14 main 'men in blue', and among them is an 'outsider' from another continent. Like the European region included one referee team from Argentina (to referee at Euro competition that starts two nights earlier), South America also have returned the favor by naming a Spanish trio team for the oldest football international tournament in the world. This exchange is done because of the contract that these two confederations have signed in February last year.

Further more at the list are: 22 assistant judges (that are going to run near the lines), 16 men who will be locked up in the room to monitor cheating (video assistant referees) together with 10 support arbiters (fourth official that every match has). Each of the names can be seen or even download from a file on the confederation website dated from 21 April.

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Marketing company that extended agreement

From last Tuesday every television station that like to broadcast in the future the best team and club football (both for men and women) competitions out of South America will have to turn to Diez media. Located in Paraguay, this house acquired the rights to sell every contract on a global level (locally and internationally) from 2023 until 2026. It is reported that the marketing agency will receive one percent of each deal that is made for the four year period or up to 300 million dollars (250 million euros) per season.

So far the existing agreement that also this sports media service have from 2019 as far as 2022 is valued on 1.4 billion dollars (1.2 billion euros) and still raising.

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Added eight more cities with nine arenas

At the North, Central America and Caribbean region this summer is going to be played the third and final football championship in 2021 on international team level. The event known as the Gold Cup is scheduled to start 10 July, but because qualifying duels have to be staged before that, an official commencing will happen earlier. On 13 April the confederation designated two cities (on where the nine preliminaries and the final are going to happen), while nine days later eight more towns have been revealed pointing out that the whole tournament will be played in United States of America.

Hence last Thursday: Houston, Arlington, Kansas city, Dallas, Glendale, Frisco, Orlando and Austin have been revealed as hospitality cities. Further more, are known the nine stadia as well: the first town has two (BBVA and NRG), AT&T, Children's mercy park, Cotton bowl, State farm, Toyota are the rest, together with Exploria and Q2 (located in the last two cities) who for the first time are going to stage matches in this competition.

Prior it was also announced that this exciting football festival is going to commence with qualifiers on 02 July in DRV PNK stadium (Florida), whilst the trophy will be lifted in Nevada (Allegiant venue) on 01 August.

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Judges selected and light change of plans

The most complicated European championship 2020 (2021) in its history is going to commence from 11 June, and last week the confederation has revealed couple of important details for the event.
On 21 April was announced the list of 19 referees that will lead every 51 duels. Among them is one new name from another confederation with a debut appearance (from Argentina) where the European football organization from earlier have a signed exchange agreement with the South American counterpart. Returning the favour one 'man in blue' (from Spain) is going to be in charge at Copa America 2020 (2021) duels that will kick-off two nights later from the upper tournament. Besides from the main ones (where each judge have two assistant referees), there are 22 more video assistant officials plus 12 support judges (fourth official in a match). Here, for the first time as well one female is selected for the competition. All names can be seen, and even download from the website of the affiliation.
Two days later expired the extended deadline when each of the cities were asked to give assurances if spectators are going to attend on stadia (because of the epidemic situation). Couple of towns have pulled out from the whole project, and thus: games that were supposed to play in Dublin (Republic of Ireland) were moved to Saint Petersburg (Russia), and duels from Bilbao (who has also cancelled the hospitality) were relocated at Seville (both Spain).

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Warm-up with official qualifiers before major championship

There is no doubt that whole June and part of July are going to be months of South American football.

Last Friday it was confirmed that the World Cup qualifiers from this region is going to return with a slight change of schedule. Matchnights 05 and 06 that were supposed to kick-off at the end of March (for now are skipped and) are put either at September, October or November, while in June will start number 07 and 08. Dates for commencing are third and eighth night in the six month with five duels each.

As it stands, these 10 duels will pose as a perfect test opportunity for the major festival that begins on 13 June in this continent - Copa America.

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