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It's a shame that Wikipedia hasn't given the Copa América the same amount of attention as was paid to Euro 2004. Mintguy (T) 08:19, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • You've not seen this then? Noisy 00:03, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Actually I hadn't. I missed the link to that page on this article. I didn't scroll down to see the list of linked hosts. As it happens though, I also meant coverage on the main page. The ITN template carried many of the results of Euro 2004. Mintguy (T) 00:56, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I removed {{mergefrom}} Copa America 1937 and then moved Copa America 1937 stub to South American Championship 1937, obviously that needs expanding --Dryazan 03:11, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • i'm slowly adding the several copa americas. i'll do 1937, eventually. of course any help appreciated SpiceMan 03:11, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)


The next edition of Copa América will be played in 2007 (as shown in the link below), not in 2006: http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/DetalleNoticia40222.asp. PMLF 17 Nov 2004

I will fix it ASAP --Carioca 5 July 2005 23:21 (UTC)


The USA has accepted the invitation to play in the next Copa America. There is a link on the individual page for the 2007 Copa America. I don't have time to update this page at the moment, but hopefully someone else can. Theasfl 17:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Oldest surviving national football competition in the world?

The first international football match was played in 1872 between England and Scotland, although at this stage the sport was rarely played outside Great Britain. As football began to increase in popularity, it was held as a demonstration sport (with no medals awarded) at the 1900 and 1904 Summer Olympics, and at the 1906 Intercalated Games football became an official competition at the 1908 Summer Olympics. To be correct, it would need to qualify itself as being a national event and outside the olympics. -- Alias Flood 15:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Not quite. Football at summer olympics is nowadays a U-23 event, and before that it was restricted to amateur players only. That said, summer olympics are not a "national football event", but rather a "sports event", which happens to include football. SpiceMan (会話) 23:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I take that on board but I still think that for this article to claim this competition as the "oldest surviving national football competition in the world" without any qualification is misinforming, albeit I recognise that this has been stated in good faith. I really think that we need to qualify that statement or change it to "one of the oldest surviving national football competitions in the world". -- Alias Flood 23:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
According to the title at FIFA's official website, it is the oldest world competition [1]. You could argue that the title of the article is wrong, since there were competitions held previous to the South American Championship of Nations (which are not longer held nowadays). However, I guess FIFA is authoritative enough on this subject. I'll remove the under dispute template as the wikipedia article is even more accurate than FIFA itself, since it states "surviving". SpiceMan (会話) 00:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree. Thank you for the reference. -- Alias Flood 02:28, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

There is the British Home Championship which is older - it started in the 1800s. 88.110.197.215 20:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The British Home Championship begun in 1884 and was staged until the 1983-84 season. It has not been competed for since then (though there have been talks of re-introducing it in some format) so it is not relevant to this discussion as it is not a "surviving" competition. ♦Tangerines BFC ♦·Talk 22:18, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flag of Paraguay

The flag of Paraguay is used anachronically all along the article. I tried to fix it, but I don't know why the right flag wouldn't appear after my changes. Please check it out. Regards. Ipsumesse (talk) 10:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)