Can COVID-stricken Brazil host Copa America?

Questions surround controversial decision to award football tournament to Brazil, country with second-highest COVID death toll in the world.

Belo Horizonte, Brazil – It is fitting that the underused Estadio Mane Garrincha football stadium in Brasilia sits almost within sight of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office. In a little more than a week, the cavernous arena is scheduled to host the opening match of arguably the most contentious and politicised Copa America in the history of the world’s oldest international football tournament. Whether it happens though, regardless of Bolsonaro’s obstinacy, remains to be seen.