The ‘Celeste’ have a good army of players established at elite clubs in Europe, including Nunez (Liverpool), Valverde (Real Madrid), Miguel Ugarte (Paris Saint-Germain) and Rodrigo Bentancur (Tottenham). “It always creates excitement,” says Bielsa.
– USA : High Capacity –
USA coach Gregg Berhalter has a squad full of important names to perform well as a domestic team. Pulisic (Milan), Giovanni Reyna (Nottingham Forest), Tyler Adams (Bournemouth) and Weston McKennie (Juventus) head the US team.
They are a team full of potential, as they showed when they won the Concacaf Nations League for a third time in March with a 2-0 win over neighbours and arch-rivals Mexico in the final.
“They can bend us, but they can’t break us (…). We are ready for the Copa America”, commented Berhalter after the last friendly match of preparation, in which the US team drew 1-1 with Brazil. “We feel like we took a small step, not a big step, but finally an important step,” he added during the press conference.
The United States finished fourth in their previous host appearance at the 2016 Copa América Centenario.
