{"id":174562,"date":"2018-05-04T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=174562"},"modified":"2018-05-04T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:31:18","slug":"qatar-compete-copa-america-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-compete-copa-america-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar to compete in Copa Am\u00e9rica in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The South American soccer confederation (CONMEBOL) made it official this Friday (4) that Qatar will be one of the national teams invited to Copa Am\u00e9rica 2019, to be held in Brazil between June and July of next year. Japan will also play the tournament as a guest.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the tournament will have twelve teams: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, plus the two Asian guest nations. \u201cThe presence of both national teams aligns with the interest of the Asian Football Confederation in taking part in CONMEBOL\u2019s competitions and the commitment of the South American Soccer Confederation in invest in the development of soccer worldwide,\u201d said CONMEBOL in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Copa Am\u00e9rica is the world\u2019s oldest international competition between national teams: the first edition took place in Argentina in June, 1916. The 2019 edition will be the fifth in Brazil, which held the tournament last time in 1989. The defending champion is Chile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-174548\">Press Release\/QFA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national team from the Arab country is one of the guests of the South American soccer confederation (CONMEBOL) for next year\u2019s edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":174548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[232,12737,2539,510,2541],"class_list":{"0":"post-174562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-catar-ar","10":"tag-copa-america","11":"tag-qatar","12":"tag-soccer"},"wps_subtitle":"The national team from the Arab country is one of the guests of the South American soccer confederation (CONMEBOL) for next year\u2019s edition of the tournament. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}