#60 What is the Copa America, what are its biggest rivalries, and why won't Colombia be hosting this summer?
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Taylor is joined by Felipe Cardenas of The Athletic to explain the basics on the Copa America itself, as well as its biggest rivalries. Felipe then gives a lot of excellent insight into the situation in Colombia that led to them withdrawing/being forced to withdraw from hosting their half of the tournament this summer. What happens next for both Colombia and the 2021 Copa America? Felipe has thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a special episode of Soccer 101. |
| 0:13.8 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:14.9 | With me today is Felipe Cardenas of The Athletic, and we, but mostly he, are going to be taking a look at the Copa America. Felipe, thank you very much for joining me today. Anytime, Taylor, happy to be back. It's been a whirlwind, like, week for you, man. You had your Atlanta United Peace drop that got a lot of attention, I would say justifiably so. And then I read your piece yesterday about the unrest in Columbia |
| 0:37.9 | and what that's meant for the Copa America. |
| 0:40.0 | It's busy times for you with a busy summer ahead. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, I mean, that's a good thing. |
| 0:44.8 | I think it's great to be busy. |
| 0:46.3 | It's great to be covering kind of multiple topics and subject matters |
| 0:51.4 | within the football universe. |
| 0:54.0 | And, yeah, like you said, this summer is going to be unprecedented, honestly. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, I know that word is thrown out so much, especially during COVID. |
| 1:01.8 | But, like, this, there's never been so many soccer tournaments, I think, in one summer because of the cancellations in 2020. |
| 1:09.2 | And so all of us at the athletic, we are ready to cover it all. |
| 1:13.1 | I mean, clearly our UK team is going all in on the Euro, on the European championships. And, |
| 1:20.7 | you know, we'll see what happens with Cop America. I know we're going to get into this, but I will |
| 1:25.4 | be chipping in there as well. And of course, MLS coverage continues. |
| 1:28.7 | Gold Cup will be going all out, Nations League as well. And all that is going to eventually lead to World Cup qualifying. |
| 1:36.2 | And Olympics in there, too, unless we forget, so many competitions. And a quick bit of explanation before we kind of get into it. |
| 1:43.6 | To the extent possible with 101 episodes, we try to keep them evergreen. |
| 1:47.4 | We want to answer questions that people have now in the present day, but we'll maybe also have in the future so that these episodes stay relevant. |
| 1:54.7 | This episode is going to be a slight deviation from that. |
| 1:56.9 | We're still going to give basic information, but then we're going to take a deeper look at the situation relating to this summer's Copa America. But to start off, Felipe, |
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