It is not easy to hold a big football match in South America, because there are 10 members of South American Football Association, so it is difficult to divide the team and the seed team.
Xinhua News Agency, Rio de Janeiro, June 26th: those teams invited to participate in the America Cup have Stories
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Yan Cui yuanlei
It is not easy to hold a large-scale football match in South America, because there are 10 members of the South American Football Association, it is difficult to divide the team and the seed team, so they usually invite some other regional teams to participate, at least 12 teams. Since 1993, they have invited teams outside the South American continent. So far, a total of 9 teams that do not belong to the South American Football Association have participated in the America Cup. Let’s take a look at the stories of these teams on the America’s Cup :
America: America is one of the pioneers of America’s Cup invited team. In 1993, when there was a special invited team for the first time, there was an American team. In 2016, it became the host of the Centennial America Cup. The United States participated in four America Cup. Their best results were the fourth in 1995 and 2016. After hosting the World Cup in 1994, the US team made them proud when they came to the Copa America for the second time. At that time, they beat Argentina by 3:0. The US team themselves felt incredible about every goal. In the end, they lost Brazil 0:1 in the semi-final.
Mexico: Mexico is the invited team that has participated in the America’s Cup most frequently. From 1993 to 2016, they participated in each America’s Cup and won two runner-up in 1993 and 2001. In 1997, he won the third place three times in 1999 and 2007. But in the 100-year America’s Cup in 2016, the Chile team rolled Mexico at 7:0. The pain was so great that Mexico did not participate in the America’s Cup in 2019.
Honduras: Honduras came to America Cup for the first time as a rescue. Before the 2001 America’s Cup, Colombia, the host country, was in the discord times. The Argentine team believed that safety could not be guaranteed, so they refused to participate in the competition. At this time, the Football Association of Honduras was invited to fill in the vacancy, and they were in the same group with another temporary rescue field and Costa Rica, which took the place of Canada. During the group match, Honduras defeated Bolivia and Uruguay, and defeated Brazil led by Scola 2:0 in the quarter-finals. Finally, they met Uruguay, their opponent in the group match again in the third place battle, and won penalty kick and achieved incredible results.
Costa Rica: compared with Honduras, Costa Rica is more specialized in rescuing households. In 2001, they temporarily replaced Canada. In 2011, Japan, which was specially invited, could not participate in the competition because of the tsunami. Costa Rica replaced again. Looking for Costa Rica to save the match was because they had long been a specially invited team, and they were invited to participate with Mexico in 1997. Costa Rica’s best result in the America’s Cup was to enter the top eight in 2004, but lost to Colombia in the quarter-finals. The last time Costa Rica participated in the America’s Cup was the century America’s Cup in 2016, but this time they were qualified as the champion of the China-US Cup by strength.
Japan: Japan’s competition allows America’s Cup to expand further. If the United States, Mexico and other Central America and Caribbean teams had not left America before, it was literally no problem to participate in the America Cup. In 1999, Japan officially broke the regional restrictions. Interestingly, it was still an American-Japanese naturalized player and Brazilian Wagner Lopes who scored the first goal in the America Cup for the Japanese team.
Jamaica: Jamaica has only participated in the America’s Cup twice, with poor results, and has become the most favorite opponent for the same team. The first time “Reggae Boys” participated in the America’s Cup was in 2015. At that time, the invitation of South American Football Association to Japan and China was declined. The second time was in 2016, they competed as the champion of the Caribbean Cup. But they failed to score a goal in the two Copa America’s Cup.
Panama: Panama team is often neglected in America’s Cup, but in fact it paves the way for the national team to create history. In the 100-year America Cup in 2016, South American Football Association and North American and Caribbean Football Association held the first joint match, which also gave other Chinese and North American teams the opportunity to participate. Jamaica and Costa Rica participated in the Caribbean Cup and the China-US Cup respectively, while Panama and Haiti won the first chance to participate in the America Cup because of their good results in the 2015 North China and Caribbean Gold Cup. Although Panama was relatively silent at that time, that generation of players laid the foundation for their historic promotion to the 2018 World Cup final table.
Haiti: Although Haiti suffered 7:1 abuse from Brazil in the only America Cup competition in 2016, they scored YILI goals, which made them feel not too embarrassed, moreover, the goal of the Brazilian team facing the strong enemy in YILI is almost comparable to that of the World Cup in 1974 in Haiti, especially the player James Masselin who scored this goal is one of the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, therefore, this ball is also regarded as the hope of a country.
Qatar: Qatar was the champion of the Asian Cup in 2019. They were also invited to participate in the America Cup for the first time this year. They came to the America Cup to accumulate experience for young players, strive for better performance when participating in the World Cup as the host in 2022. They also confirmed to participate in the 2020 America Cup.