Copa CONMEBOL ended in 1999.
Copa CONMEBOL was created in 1992.
the 2011 CONMEBOL Copa America will be staged in ARGENTINA the 2011 CONMEBOL Copa America will be staged in ARGENTINA
Copa Argentina ended in 1970.
Copa Ibarguren ended in 1958.
Copa Adrián C. Escobar ended in 1949.
Copa de Competencia Jockey Club ended in 1936.
Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires ended in 1936.
They've been invited as a guest by the South American federation for the last few competitions. The United States have also competed in the Copa America. Twelve teams is a better fit for a competition than ten, it seems. Also, they make a good potential market: 112 million of soccer-loving, TV-viewing Mexicans is a good reason to let them in. Mexico also has club teams compete in Copa Libertadores (CONMEBOL's Champions League) and sometimes Copa Sudamerica. Mexico benefits from the experience of competing against better teams, teams that are way better than CONCACAF teams.
Strictly-speaking, CONMEBOL is not an acronym but a blended word or portmanteau for CONfederación sudaMEricana de FútBOL, FIFA's South American confederation of football (soccer in the US).
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Tom Copa was born in 1964.
Copa Pachuca was created in 1999.