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USMNT: All eyes on 2019 Gold Cup with Copa America exclusion

After competing in the previous Copa America alongside Mexico, the USMNT has not been invited to participate in the 2019 rendition of the South American Competition, nor has our neighbors to the south.

The Copa America will boast a field of their ten participants as well as Qatar and Japan, as the organization cited the growing interest of football in Asia as a primary drive to make this decision and exclude the USMNT and Mexico. This makes sense of adding Japan, but the inclusion of Qatar, not to mention their World Cup host status, remains a massive question that no one seems to have a sufficient answer for.