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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Alexander Abnos

This Copa América was scorching chaos. Will World Cup 2026 be different?

Uruguay's Darwin Nuñez scuffles with fans after his team’s loss to Colombia at this summer’s Copa América
Uruguay's Darwin Nuñez scuffles with fans after his team’s loss to Colombia at this summer’s Copa América. Photograph: Brian Westerholt/EPA

Conmebol should have seen it coming.

Throughout this summer’s Copa América, the signs of an impending logistical disaster were clear. In cities throughout the United States, transportation bottlenecks frustrated fans, security failures made them less safe, hot weather endangered everyone and games themselves were either sparsely attended or, as on Sunday, the dangerous opposite.

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