Covid-19 Surge and Political unrest, Why Brazil to Host Copa America!

Argentina and Colombia have been stripped the rights to host South America’s largest football tournament, Copa America on Monday to 2019 hosts Brazil due to a Covid-19 surge and social unrest successively.

Covid-19 Surge and Political unrest, Why Brazil to Host Copa America!

"The CONMEBOL Copa America 2021 will be played in Brazil!" the federation said on its Twitter account.

CONMEBOL maintained the tournament date which is from June 13th to July 19th and is expected to announce venues and dates of the matches.

The tournament which had been earlier postponed by 12 months due to the coronavirus pandemic has been moved to a country that has the second-highest death toll in the world with over 460,000 deaths and more than 16.5 million cases and making it the first time in history the tournament has been co-hosted by two countries, Argentina and Colombia.