Copa America hosts Brazil favourites under pressure of a nation

Neymar will lead Brazil into a Copa America in which they will be considered favourites to win on home soil. The draw for the 2019 Copa America could hardly have been kinder for hosts Brazil in this centenary year from when they first had the tournament on home soil. They won it then for the first time, and won it on the three subsequent occasions when the tournament was held in the country. Brazil have, then, a 100 percent record to maintain at home -- and a dreadful recent tournament record to forget. In the past three World Cups and three Copa Americas, Brazil have reached only one semifinal -- and...

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