Rio de Janiero, Brazil: The first 228,000 match tickets for this year’s Copa America in Brazil went on sale on Thursday. Host Brazil will play the opener in Sao Paulo at Morumbi Stadium. Its opponent will be determined in the January 24 draw, which will see Ibrahim Al-Mohannadi, QFA Board of Directors member head the Qatar delegation. Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay will head three groups that will be filled with defending champion Chile, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela plus guests Qatar and Japan. Thiago Jannuzzi, competition manager for the Copa America organizing committee, said he thinks the tournament will draw more fans from other South American countries than the 2014 World Cup did. The cost to see a game at the tournament, which runs June 14-July 7, ranges from 60 and 890 Brazilian reals ($16 to $240), with more than 770,000 tickets set to go on sale later this year. Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022 but are set to test themselves against the five-time winners of that competition Brazil, as well as two-time champions Uruguay and Argentina, in South America three years prior. Qatar were previously invited to play in the 2011 Copa America, but could not take part because of prior commitments.