Bolivia’s Morales keeps up comeback hopes as Copa Evo kicks off

Some see youth football tournament as former president's latest attempt to remain in running for 2025 elections

Politics and football have long mixed in South America, but not perhaps to this extent. On Sunday the Copa Evo, an international youth football tournament arranged by and named after Bolivia's former president Evo Morales, kicked off in the country's coca-growing tropics.

The buildup was dominated by political scraps, with the opposition questioning the involvement of the national football federation in a tournament that bears Morales's name.