📆🌎 How we'll Get CONCACAFed at the Copa América!

Support the newsletter. Get daily updates. Everyone wins ... except Bolivia

It seems like everyone is asking the same questions ahead of the Copa América. Can Lionel Messi defend his title? Will Gregg Berhalter come out looking like a genius or will he lose his job? And what will Getting CONCACAFed provide readers during the tournament?

Today, I can clarify one of those things for you - with certainty.

Every day there are matches, there will be a newsletter in your inbox before 1 p.m. ET.

I’ll have something about the previous night’s contests and something looking ahead to that night’s games.*

*That’s true only if you are a premium subscriber. It’s only $5 for the entire month, though I hope you’ll stick around after. The $50 annual subscription provides better value!

The format will be similar to the Gold Cup Daily format I’ve adopted during the two Concacaf championships that have taken place during the four years this newsletter has published.

If that sounds like too much for you, or you just aren’t in a position to financially support my work covering this tournament, it’s all good. One to two newsletters a week will go out to all subscribers - now more than 5,000 of you!

Of course, there will be a special focus on the six Concacaf teams taking part in the tournament, but I plan to take a more expansive approach. If you’re interested in how Panama does at this tournament, chances are you’ll be interested in Paraguay’s struggles to score goals or Uruguay’s mastery of Marcelo Bielsa’s system.

But I’ll also be looking into the South American opponents Concacaf teams are facing, from Argentina to … Bolivia.

I’ll also be working with traditional media outlets like The Guardian, Bleacher Report, FotMob, and perhaps one or two others to cover and tell stories from the tournament.

By now, you know how this works: Y’all click and enjoy the articles, the media outlets see people clicking, interacting with and liking the coverage, and they hire me to do more of those articles. That allows me to keep working as a soccer journalist and writing this newsletter - as does your paid subscription.

But by now you also know the fun stuff will be here. The good stuff. The stuff that might not play on an important, serious journalism website but which captivates us and draws us in.

The strange good-luck charm a player can’t perform without, an assistant coach’s unique background, an interesting back-and-forth between a player and his country’s press corps in the mixed zone. All that stuff will be here, alongside my typical blend of reporting stuff you might not know and my analysis of what you do know means in the long run.

I appreciate you joining up and telling your book club, your knitting circle, the #random channel of your office’s Slack, the airport mixologist you chat with on the way to a match and your neighbor.

Let’s Get CONCACAFed. Let’s get CONMEBOLed Over by the Copa América. Let’s talk soccer in the Americas together.