{"id":2433,"date":"2011-06-28T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:03:01","slug":"copa-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/copa-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa Am\u00e9rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament, or America Cup, is a major soccer championship held in South America every two to four years with twelve teams from Latin America and sometimes from North America or Asia (Japan, the US, and Canada have participated). The first edition was held in 1916 in Argentina, with games played between Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. This year, it&#8217;s being held in Argentina again, and the Brazilian national team will face off against Venezuela, Paraguay, and Ecuador <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca2011.com\/jogos_todos.php\">in the first round <\/a>beginning next week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca2011.com\/selecoes_resumo.php?idS=c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b\">Brazil<\/a> won the last two Copa Am\u00e9rica tournaments in 2007 and 2004, and is hoping to beat Argentina and Uruguay, which both hold 14 Copa Am\u00e9rica titles. Brazil holds eight titles, and wants a ninth!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief video discussing Brazilian national team coach Mano Menezes&#8217; plans for the team he&#8217;s putting together for the championship:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWVawReLrVI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWVawReLrVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a news report about the history of Brazil at the Copa Am\u00e9rica:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NpLpA1wcsKM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NpLpA1wcsKM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watching the Copa Am\u00e9rica at your local sports bar or pub is a great way to meet Brazilians and practice your Portuguese!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament, or America Cup, is a major soccer championship held in South America every two to four years with twelve teams from Latin America and sometimes from North America or Asia (Japan, the US, and Canada have participated). The first edition was held in 1916 in Argentina, with games played between Argentina&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/copa-america\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[2143,2524],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-soccer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}