None of the members of Group B start the 2024 edition of the Copa América among the favorites to lift the competition title; However, this key, which includes Mexico, EcuadorVenezuela and Jamaica, may be among the most difficult to predict in the competition.
The Aztecs start as the group leaders, thanks to the dominance they have had for years in CONCACAF, although the United States, the host country of this event, has stolen much of that prominence in recent times.
With a renovated team that will not have five references: goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, defenders Jesús Gallardo and Raúl Jiménez, and forwards Hirving Lozano and Henry Martín, the Mexican team will go to the Copa América to strengthen its renewal process and begin to its cycle ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which it will host alongside Canada and the United States.
The pressure for a change of base in the Aztec team began after the disappointing campaign at the World Cup in Qatar, where they were eliminated in the group stage, after qualifying for the round of 16 seven consecutive times.
Ecuador seeks to take advantage of its moment:
The team under the command of the Spanish Félix Sánchez Bas currently has one of the most promising generations of football in the country and will try to take advantage of this and record the best performance that Ecuador has ever had in a Copa América.
Among the main figures of the team are Piero Hincapié, William Pacho, Félix Torres, Moisés Caicedo and the 17-year-old attacker Kendry Páez. They will be joined by more experienced players such as goalkeeper Alexander Domínguez and scorer Enner Valencia.
After abandoning the last place in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, where it started with three negative points due to a sanction from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS), Ecuador hopes to advance to the round of 16 to, in the direct elimination duels, reach the furthest in a tournament he has ever won.
Venezuela arrives revitalized:
Led by Argentine technical director Fernando Batista, Vinotinto has shown signs of being in the middle of a solid recovery process, after gray years that once again turned the tricolor team into the “Cinderella” of Conmebol.
Venezuela has already left behind the disappointing results of the brief José Pekerman era, despite winning only two of the six games played in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
With players like Yangel Herrera, Yeferson Soteldo and Salomón Rondón, the Venezuelans will try to reverse a history of failures and begin to carve out golden times in soccer for the nation.
Jamaica, to climb a great mountain:
Scoring is the main objective of the Jamaican team in the Copa América in the United States, since in its two previous participations it did not advance beyond the group stage and lost all six games played.
The islanders, who have just won their first six points in the CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, after beating the Dominican Republic 1-0 and Dominica 2-3, aspire to maintain this streak against their tough opponents. group rivals in the continental competition, which for the first time brings together 16 teams.
