Brazil...

[ElNono]

They're hosting:
- 2013 Confederations Cup
- 2014 World Cup
- 2015 Copa America
- 2016 Summer Olympic Games

Are you shitting me?

[Sense]

IKR.... didn't someone tell them the world ends in 2012?

[lefty]

2011 Military World Cup

Eliminated at home in the semis

[Phenomanul]

They're hosting:
- 2013 Confederations Cup
- 2014 World Cup
- 2015 Copa America
- 2016 Summer Olympic Games

Are you shitting me?

Cool... what are the odds of that unprecedented 4 event sequence?

Of course, the Confederations Cup is relatively new (in terms of rotating it out of Saudi Arabia) and has since been paired with the WC host nation...

But off the top of my head...

Mexico:
- 1968 Olympic Games
- 1970 World Cup

USA:
- 1993 Gold Cup (not quite at the status of the Copa America, but still the regional equivalent)
- 1994 World Cup
- 1996 Summer Olympic Games

[ElNono]

It wasn't luck. The Copa America host stopped being a random draw a while ago, and supposedly was going to be in alphabetical order. The thing is, Bolivia is before Brazil... oops.

In a nutshell, Brazil is investing a lot of dough for some of the other events, and this is a way to leverage such investment.