USA Mid fielder Weston Mckennie disappointed by playing surfaces and atmosphere in Copa America

The Copa America has begun and is taking place in the United States for the first time. This is one of the biggest Copa America tournaments we have ever had which consists of 16 teams this season. This is a tournament, everyone is looking forward to, and are also showing their support towards the USA team who are playing in this global tournament for the first time with Concaf joining up with the Conmebol for the tournament.

Though this tournament has been hyped, some players are not happy with the conditions they are playing in this season at all. The first team to bring this up was the Argentina team who were unhappy with the patchy surfaces and unstable to play on. Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and coach Lionel Scaloni despite the win over Canada have shown their frustration over the playing conditions on how terrible the surface was to play on.

Weston Mckennie shows his frustration as well

Martinez and the Argentine coach were not the only ones who had a problem with stadiums, it was the USA's star player Weston Mckennie who showed his frustration as well. After all, Mckennie has also played in Europe as well and has even compared the conditions saying " I think what Martinez was saying was completely true, It's frustrating, especially as a player. You know, whenever you do come here to America you play in a stadium that can fit 70,000 people but 25,000 show up. You don't really have an atmosphere And then you're playing on a football field, with laid grass that's all patchy and it breaks up every step you take. It's frustrating."

The fact that the USA's players have shown dislike for the grounds and the atmosphere of the tournament, shows that the USA still has a long way to go in the game of football. These words from Mckennie say a lot about how this tournament which was so hyped has started most disappointingly.