Copa America 2011 is coming!

As most of you probably know we're less than a month away from the most important football event of this winter/summer, Copa America, and it will be played here in Argentina.

The tournament starts on July 1st and will end on July 24th and will feature 12 national teams : the usual 10 of CONMEBOL + 2 invited guests from CONCACAF, Mexico and Costa Rica.

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Copa America will be broadcast to 196 countries.

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• The 43rd Copa America will be broadcasted for the first time entirely in HD (High-Definition) and a record 196 countries will receive the signal of the competition matches. In 2004, the tournament was broadcast to over 140 countries. In the last edition, in Venezuela in 2007, more than 180 countries will watch the games of the Copa America.
  
  
  Held since 1916, the Copa America is the oldest national teams’ football competition in the world. In 2011, the tournament will be held in Argentina and will be attended by 12 teams. Of these, six were in the knock-out stage of the World Cup 2010: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mexico.
  
  
  Copa America 2011 will have major stars of world football such as Robinho, Neymar and Julio Cesar (Brazil), Messi, Di Maria and Javier Mascherano (Argentina), Claudio Pizarro (Peru), Roque Santa Cruz and Cardozo (Paraguay) Cavani, Forlan and Suarez (Uruguay) and Alexis Sanchez (Chile).

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Uruguay calls Scotti and Castillo for match against the Netherlands

 

Andres Scotti was part of the Uruguayan team that made the semifinals in the 2011 World Cup.

Uruguay will meet the Netherlands with practically the same roster that lost in a friendly against Germany, in the final stretch of preparation for Oscar W. Tabarez's team before the America Cup.

Andres Scotti and the goalkeeper Juan Castillo, both from the popular Chilean team Colo Colo, are the primary changes to the roster announced Friday by Tabarez for the game against Germany on Sunday with the South American team lost 2-1.

Castillo and Scotti were excluded from that roster at the last minute.

The meeting between the Netherlands and Uruguay will be played in the Centenario Stadium and will be a rematch of the semifinal in the South Africa World Cup with Uruguay lost 3-2.

The rest of the roster presented by Tabarez contained the main figures of Uruguayan soccer and is the likely basis with which Uruguay will play in Copa America to take place between July 1 and July 24 in Argentina.

Uruguay will participate in Group C in the tournament and will debut on July 4 against Peru. Chile and Mexico are also located in Group C.