THE Copa America is the latest tournament to be postponed after it was pushed back by a year to 2021.
It was revealed earlier on Tuesday that Euro 2020 has been delayed by a year as authorities look to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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Brazil are the current holders of the Copa America after winning the tournament last summerCredit: Getty – Contributor
This summer’s South American championships was scheduled to take place between June and July.
But now the competition has been axed, there is more time to finish the current season.
Football in South America has already come to a standstill, with leagues suspended due to fears over the deadly bug.
The Copa Libertadores was recently halted with players angry that games were still going ahead.
Like its South American counterpart Conmebol, Uefa have acted swiftly in stopping their club competitions, as both the Champions League and Europa League finals have been postponed by a month.
The Copa America 2020 was set to be the first competition to take place in more than one country for the first time since 1983, with Argentina and Colombia selected as hosts.
Brazil won the prestigious tournament on home soil in July, but the trophy was to be up for grabs again this year as part of calendar change for the event to be held on even numbers, as opposed to odd.
This was to make the competition fall in line with the European Championship which takes place every four years.
Fifa will now have to reschedule the Club World Cup in China that was due to take place in the summer of 2021.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
