The hosts Brazil will been keen to kick with a win when they welcome Bolivia to the Estadio Morumbi for the opening game of the Copa America 2019 edition.

The last time their senior team played the home team to an international tournament, ended in extreme disaster, and the wounds are still not healed. The squad needs this title more than they want it, and the pride of the once unconquerable team in world football is in serious jeopardy.

The loss of Neymar may shock any team in the world, but not Brazil though. Such is the abundance of talent in their midst that apparently the loss of a top-three player is not that much of a setback.

Bolivia has been struggling to make any kind of an impact against teams that they took on recently, and in an opener of a major tournament, against the hosts, they are under serious pressure.

Even in the qualification fixtures that determined entrants to the World Cup 2018, the side failed to make any noise. An unimpressive ninth-place finish against these same set of teams will be an indicator about what to expect in the further next month for Bolivia.

The other two teams in the Group A; Venezuela and Peru lock horn on Sunday evening, June 16 2019.