Priority to health. Following the worrying spread of the coronavirus in the world in recent weeks, authorities are forced to review their plans. While the various national championships have already been suspended, UEFA has decided to postpone Euro 2020 and suspend C1 and C3.
Copa America 2020 also postponed
Another competition affected by the measures taken on Tuesday: the Copa America. Indeed, Conmebol has also decided to postpone its continental competition. A decision that makes sense, football no longer being a priority in view of the gravity of the situation.
More specifically, while Euro 2020 has officially been postponed by a year, i.e. in 2021, the same will be true for South America. Organized in Argentina and Colombia, the continental competition will also be postponed to 2021.
“In an exceptional situation, exceptional measure”, justified Alejandro Dominguez, the president of Conmebol, with Reuters. “It was not an easy decision to make but we must at all costs preserve the health of our players and the huge family of South American football, he added. But rest assured that the oldest tournament world will come back stronger than ever in 2021”, then explained the leader, lucid and optimistic.
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