Copa America 2021: Felipe Cardenas discusses the situation in Brazil, the teams that are best positioned heading into the tournament, and why so many squads have so many familiar faces
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🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Felipe Cardenas of The Athletic returns to provide some much-needed updates on this summer's Copa America. If you missed our recent Soccer 101 explainer, you can find it here. On today's show, we get into how Brazil became the new host nation, as well as the problems that could arise from a government that still isn't taking the Covid-19 pandemic seriously. Plus, which managers are in the most secure positions and which ones are in the least, the tiers of quality when it comes to the current Conmebol pool, and the squads most likely to make deep runs this summer. There's also a pretty shocking anecdote in youth soccer in Ohio vs youth soccer in Argentina, and some positive words for Venezuela and Bolivia!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:23.1 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and today we're going to be trying to get to the bottom of a slightly relevant topic. |
| 0:28.3 | What is happening with the Copa America? |
| 0:30.4 | To do most of the legwork on that one, I've got a man who I think is finally calming down after Columbia's 2-2. |
| 0:36.6 | Come from behind draw last night. |
| 0:38.7 | It's Felipe Cardenas of the athletic. |
| 0:40.4 | Felipe, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:42.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.6 | And yeah, I did not lose my voice last night. |
| 0:46.6 | I lost my mind. |
| 0:49.5 | I'll tell you what. |
| 0:50.5 | Like, I had also lost faith, which I got roasted. |
| 0:53.4 | Really? |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah, I got roasted by my friends |
| 0:55.7 | in my columbian WhatsApp because that's that's what they stick to faith is the last thing |
| 1:00.9 | that you lose when you're supporting your national team but when you go down to argent when you go |
| 1:05.3 | down you know seven minutes into a game against argentina you're down two nil and messy's on the |
| 1:10.8 | field it's really tough to be like we got this uh but um minutes into a game against Argentina, you're down 2-0 and Messi's on the field. |
| 1:11.2 | It's really tough to be like, we got this. |
| 1:14.5 | But, you know, the game switched, you know, some changes from the Columbia's manager in the second |
| 1:21.8 | half. |
| 1:22.2 | He had to make changes. |
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