“The Copa América will be in Brazil!” The country has lost 207,000 people to COVID-19 in the past three months alone, but President Jair Bolsonaro says “we have to live'.
Colombia and Argentina, original hosts of the tournament, the Copa América, had bowed out, deeming it impossible to welcome hundreds of players and their entourages while the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the continent.“The Copa América will be in Brazil!” Alejandro Domínguez, president of the South American soccer federation, Conmebol, announced on Monday, thanking President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil for saving the day.
Leaders of the congressional panel investigating the government’s pandemic response reacted with incredulity and said they intended to summon the head of Brazil’s soccer federation to testify. Soon after the new venue for the championship was announced, Brazilians posted memes online of a coffin kicking a ball shaped like a virus. They trolled the organisers with the hashtag #CovaAmerica, using the Portuguese word for grave.
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