Brazil vs Argentina: game stop due to health surveillance in Brazil – International Football – Sports

A huge scandal was generated this Sunday in the match between Brazil and Argentina, of the World Cup qualifying in Qatar, which was suspended after agents of the Brazilian health agency intervened in the game at the Neo Química Arena stadium in Sao Paulo to deport Argentine players of the Premier League that would have violated the protocols of entering the country.

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The four footballers who were in difficulty with the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) for making a mistake in the biosafety protocols are Emiliano Martínez and Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa) as well as Cristian Romero and Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham).

When five minutes into the game, health agents entered the field and chaos was generated, so the game was suspended.

Later the Argentina national team he withdrew from the court. Approximately 30 minutes after the riot, the Argentine Football Federation reported that the game had been suspended through its Twitter account. Later, Conmebol itself officially reported the suspension of the game, which was later ratified by Fifa. The gaucho team retired to the hotel and is preparing for a trip to Buenos Aires.

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A regulation in force in Brazil to prevent the spread of covid-19 provides that people who come from Great Britain, South Africa and India or have been in the last 14 days in those countries, must comply with preventive isolation when entering Brazil.

The four players who are active in the Premier League lied on the entry form to Brazil, by not informing that they were in the United Kingdom at some point in the fourteen days prior to their arrival for this World Cup match, according to the entity.

The footballers joined the Argentine team last week, which last Thursday beat Venezuela 3-1 in Caracas, from where they flew to Brazil, where they lied in the requested information.

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The Argentine Confederation attributed the selection of the players to an agreement between the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) and all the countries of the continent that frees athletes from being quarantined in official matches.

“We got to this point because everything Anvisa directed, from the first moment, was not fulfilled. They were ordered to remain isolated pending deportation. But it was not fulfilled. They move to the stadium, enter the field, there is a sequence of breaches “, said the director-president of Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, to ‘Globo TV’.

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Asked if the Conmebol agreement should not be complied with, Barra Torres said he had no knowledge:

“What I know about the health aspect is that these four players need to be deported from Brazil. The first infraction was not complying with isolation, the previous one, not responding reliably to the questioning of the traveler, and now play. With more of 500 thousand dead, in the midst of the pandemic, orders are being disobeyed at the request of I do not know who, “said the director-president of Anvisa.

The coach of Argentina also spoke, Lionel Scaloni, who said: “I come so that our country finds out what has happened. It makes me very sad. I am not looking for any culprit. If something happened or did not happen, it was not the time to make that intervention,” he said.

SPORTS AND AFP

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