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The Brazil-Argentina scandal remains in the hands of FIFA

Leo Messi and Neymar Jr. talk with members of Health. / efe

La Albiceleste landed in Buenos Aires with their entire squad and Leo Messi in front, to prepare for Thursday’s clash against Bolivia

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FIFA will be in charge of deciding the future of the Brazil-Argentina superclassic, suspended after six minutes and which captured the attention of the sixth day of the Qatar World Cup qualifiers in which Uruguay won, Ecuador yielded with Chile and Colombia equalized with Paraguay.

The Venezuelan referee Jesús Valenzuela formalized the suspension of the match by the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), which sent the final decision to the highest international football organization, chaired by Gianni Infantino and responsible for the World Cup qualifiers.

From now on, the investigations will begin to determine if the match is postponed, if Argentina is considered lost for violating health regulations, supposedly above the rules of the game and the sporting estates, or if it is considered lost to the Brazilians due to government interference in sports matters.

The underlying discussion is whether the Brazilian health protocol is “force majeure” or not. At this point, it must be borne in mind that Conmebol and FIFA supported the Argentines in the previous hours in the possible deportation of their four players. Conmebol and FIFA considered that the bubble that protects all the national teams was reason enough for Argentina not to expel those players. By regulation, Argentina was fully qualified and that is why the game began, argues Conmebol.

It is surprising that the AFA is apparently so sure that FIFA will give it all three points. The team withdrew when the referee suspended the match and the Argentines consider the reason to be external, in no case attributable to the Albiceleste. It was a decision unrelated to football and the host country must pay for it, they think of Buenos Aires. However, they acknowledge that the Brazilian CBF and its players did want to resume the match and have it played normally.

The Argentines, furthermore, consider false the argument that the four players involved falsified the documentation of entry into the country. None declared false the true fact that they had stayed in England in the last 14 days, since Lo Celso, ‘Dibujos’ Martínez, Romero and Buendía play there.

Meanwhile, the Argentine team led by asatro Leo Messi landed in Buenos Aires after midnight, after the controversial suspension of the great duel with Brazil for the alleged violation of the anticovid protocol by four albiceleste footballers.

After getting off the charter plane, the entire staff got on a bus without maintaining contact with the press at Ezeiza International Airport, to depart for the headquarters of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), a few kilometers away.

Lionel Scaloni’s team will continue to focus on Thursday’s match against Bolivia, qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will be played at the Monumental, the first that will be able to count on 30% of spectators (21,000).

Locked in the locker room

After the suspension of the match in Brazil, the players had to stay in the locker room for about five hours until they left for the Sao Paulo airport, where they boarded the charter flight. “We’re going home!” Wrote the Argentine team on Twitter with the hashtag #UnidosSiempre.

At the Sao Paulo airport, the team was accompanied by the Argentine ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, who came “so that there would be no inconvenience and the players all return to Buenos Aires together,” he told Radio 10.

The Brazil-Argentina played just five minutes that was interrupted by a group of officials from the Brazilian health agency (Anvisa) who entered the field field to enforce a deportation order against goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, defender Cristian Romero, midfielder Giovani Lo Celso and forward Emiliano Buendía.

Scandal in Brazil-Argentina, suspended for violation of the sanitary protocol

The Argentine quartet, who play for Aston Villa and Tottenham in the Premier League, are accused of having violated anticovid protocol and of giving “false information” upon arrival in Brazil for the South American qualifying match for Qatar 2022, which was due be played this Sunday at the Neo Química Arena stadium.

A ministerial order of June 23 prohibits the entry into Brazilian territory of any foreign person from the United Kingdom, India or South Africa, to prevent the spread of variants of the coronavirus.

«They did not warn us. We have been here for three days. They would have come the first day and not like that, ”captain Messi told the coordinator of the Brazilian team, Juninho Paulista, in a conversation on the pitch captured on television.

Before the scandal, Martínez and Buendía had planned to leave this Monday from Sao Paulo to Croatia to comply with the quarantine in Europe before returning to England, a condition that Aston Villa had set them to transfer them to the national team, according to Rivadavia Alejandro radio. Martínez, the goalkeeper’s brother. Now they must fly from Buenos Aires.

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