FIFA is studying the consequences for football players involved in suspending Sunday’s match between Brazil and Argentina. The body, which is in charge of organizing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, issued a statement yesterday in which it lamented “the scenes that took place in the suspension of the match between Brazil and Argentina, which deprived millions of fans to watch this match that pitted the teams of two of the countries with the most football weight in the world ”. And he added that he has already received “the first reports of the party.”
“The relevant disciplinary bodies will analyze the information gathered in these reports to make the appropriate decisions when appropriate,” FIFA said in a statement. The grotesque suspension of the match, with the entry of agents of the Brazilian health authorities when only five minutes of play had passed, went around the world.
Argentina is ‘sad’
The irruption of the members of the Federal Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (Anvisa) splashed the CONMEBOL, which wants to disassociate itself from these types of situations. The scenes of disbelief of the players of the two teams, with captains Messi and Neymar at the helm, show how bizarre the situation was. The claim of the Argentine Football Federation was clear: Why did the authorities not expect that the match had already started to act and prevent the four players from Premier League teams from playing – Emiliano Buendía and Emiliano Martínez, from Aston Villa, and Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero from Tottenham – when they had been in Brazil for three days? After this situation, and with the permission of the team, the players returned with their teams.
Instead, from Anvisa they argue that when they went to look for in the hotel of concentration of the Argentine equipment the four soccer players who would not have fulfilled the norms of prevention of Brazil, already were in the stage. “The truth is that all this makes me very sad. I’m not looking for any culprit, but it’s very sad, what has happened. Whether something happened or not, it was not the right time to wait to act. A match that was supposed to be a party, to enjoy the best players in the world, ended in that. I don’t know what words to use, “said Argentine coach Lionel Scaloni to TyC Sports after the events. “The athletes are the victims: we wanted to play the game and the players from Brazil as well. At no time had we been warned that these players could not play, ”he added.
The ball is now on the roof of FIFA, which is the body in charge of deciding how it acts and whether it applies sanctions. The most damaged team could be Brazil, if the body decrees that it was a local body that stopped the game
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