Vibrate the continent – Sports

After a brief but effective ceremony, without too much technological deployment, beyond the lights and with the representation of the South American people, the ball began firing last night at the stadium Morumbí de São Paulo and Copa América national teams launched with renewed illusions. A competition that is starting to spark popular interest on the continent, even if it will be bigger in scope, as television rights go beyond the countries directly involved through their teams.

Organizational sources reported million-dollar figures on the development of this tournament, which gave life to the representatives of Brazil and Bolivia: television rights, revenues from ticket sales, prices and tourism , to name the most significant. Everything with the Conmebol as axis.

Beyond the nuances, which always divide the waters in this type of episodes, the evening of opening took place last night, although shocking. The song "Vibra el Continente" was heard in every corner, and the behavior of the occupants of the stands showed the pbadion of a country that needs to shout champion.

As for the official theme of the event, it was performed by Léo Santana and Karol G, as part of an evening whose details were edited by Edson Edermann, its artistic director, and bringing together some 400 people on stage, as well as 100 musicians and an LED light.

The public, through all the alleys, received, through a group of children dressed in official jerseys from different countries, an invitation from Brazil to what is supposed to be a big party for the South American peoples.

The doors of Cícero Pompeu Stadium in Toledo, better known as Morumbí, were opened several hours in advance to avoid complications at the entrance. With regard to the public who can move this Copa América, preliminary figures are given for explanatory purposes.

In the afternoon of yesterday, around the start of the inaugural match, nearly 700,000 tickets were sold in more than 100 countries, with the tickets being sold at every presentation in Brazil, and the figures are not available. Stop when there are tickets and packages for supporters of Argentina and the rest of the competing countries.

The countdown ended then, the local competition was permanently interrupted in each of the 12 countries concerned and the questions that could arouse the precedent on the attractiveness of this new edition of Copa America had a strong response: football in no case You can pbad, and less in South America.

After the 2014 World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil will once again become the axis of continental sport, with the infrastructure left by these two meetings that have attracted the attention of the entire planet and by an indebted organization in Rio. manage only the development of competition, but also what is related to tourism and everything that moves around him.

The inauguration was then the starting point, a real show of light, music and colors, which was reduced to less than a quarter of an hour (net time) taking advantage of previous experiences, during which Evenings very well organized eventually tired, according to witnesses. face-to-face and especially to the thousands of followers through the TV show. Beyond the nuances that always divide in this type of events.

The first night of the tournament that will have interrupted the competition throughout South America has gathered several Argentines. Starting with Néstor Fabián Pitana, the missionary who, after being the referee of the inaugural match and the final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, was chosen to control the match between Brazil and Bolivia,

He was not the last Argentinian present at Morumbí, as he was accompanied by linesmen Hernán Maidana and Juan Pablo Belatti. while the VAR was under the central control of Patricio Loustau, Fernando Rappalini and Ezequiel Brailovsky.