The talks between the leaders of both confederations will continue throughout January and before the end of the month they plan to close the agreement and make it formally known.
It should be noted that this is a firm option and would serve to give impetus to the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada. However, nothing is confirmed as it remains to reach an economic agreement on the organization and prizes. A year and a half from the beginning of the Copa América 2024 -a tournament in which the Argentine National Team will defend the title won in the last edition held in Brazil in 2021- the concrete thing is that this continental competition will change the format and will add several participating countries relative to the last.
The next edition will have 16 teams, increasing to a number of 6 participants in relation to 2021, since another six from Central and North America (Concacaf) will be added to the historic ten teams from South America (Conmebol). In this way, there will be four zones of four selected each, so the two groups of five will be left aside.
To be defined
However, of the 6 slots that correspond to Concacaf, only three are guaranteed: the United States, Canada and Mexico. The other three still remain to be defined. Despite being from Asia, Qatar continues to fight to be there, as it did in the 2019 edition in Brazil for the only time in its history. Japan follows the same path. The other countries that claim to play because they belong to America are Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, El Salvador and Honduras, the others that reached the octagonal final of the Qualifiers of their Confederation towards the 2022 World Cup.
Everything indicates that, no later than the middle of this year, the 16 chosen will be made official. With the local team, the United States, Argentina and Brazil as seeded heads, the remaining spot to complete the four groups will be played by Mexico and Uruguay, with the Uruguayan team with the best chances.
Source: Ambito
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