Next Year's Copa América Centenary In U.S. 'Doubtful,' Says CONMEBOL General Secretary

A 16-team football tournament to be played in the U.S. next year to celebrate 100 years of South America's Copa América has been "cast into doubt by the arrest of top FIFA officials on multi-million dollar bribery charges," according to Rex Gowar of REUTERS. CONMEBOL General Secretary José Luis Meiszner said that a question mark "hung over the tournament also because there was an order for the arrest of the owners of the tournament's broadcasting rights." Meiszner said, "Today, let's put a giant question mark over the possibility of playing that Cup in the United States. The president of one of the confederations is under arrest, the companies that own the rights have had their funds blocked ... nobody can seriously say that things in the future are going to be as foreseen" (REUTERS, 6/2).