The president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, ruled on a possible participation of the American teams in an upcoming edition of the most important tournament for clubs in America. Will it be given?
The arrival of Lionel Messi to Inter Miami of the Major League Soccer made the statements of the president of the Conmebol, Alejandro Dominguezabout a possible participation of American teams in a future edition of the Libertadores Cupso the captain of the Argentine National Team he would have his chance to dispute it.
Due to the realization of the Copa América 2024 in the United States, and the World Cup 2026 together with Mexico and Canadathe body that regulates South American football will take advantage of these years in which the continent will have a lot of international exposure to carry out some changes in the format of the Libertadores Cuphis most important contest.
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A few days ago, Domínguez stated that he would love to have Messi in the Libertadores in the midst of the boom due to the uncertainty of his future, which has already been defined and the Argentine star will play in the inter miami for the next semester of 2023: “Leo Messi, CONMEBOL Libertadores is always waiting for you!”
In turn, during Qatar 2022, he had declared that he had a talk with Messi and asked him the same thing: to come and play the most important cup in South America and the only one that he has not been able to win.
“I asked Messi to come and play the Libertadoresbecause it’s the only tournament he hasn’t won yet.”
Who was the only American team that participated in a tournament organized by Conmebol
The last -and only- time that an American team participated in a competition of conmebol was the D.C. United of Washington.
The capital club was as a guest and started in the competition from the round of 16being defeated in that instance in both editions.
In the South American 2005 faced the Catholic University of Chile and drew 1-1 at their stadium, but fell 3-2 in the second leg in Santiago; and for the 2007 edition -which won Sarandi Arsenal– won 2 to 1 in Washington versus Guadalajara and lost 1-0 in Mexicofor which he was eliminated due to the away goal of the “Chivas”.
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