The national teams are returning to their "unprecedented" rallies with the absence of Neymar and Leo
Brazilian star Neymar.
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After being deprived of international matches for nearly a year, the national teams, in the absence of Brazilian stars Neymar and Argentine Lionel Messi, resume their activities this week, only in Europe, through the extraordinary international break, between closed doors, and health vigilance in the face of the emerging Corona virus.
Only UEFA has kept its scheduled matches at the opening of the second edition of the Nations League, a competition created to replace the traditional international friendly matches that take place in the fall.
As for the other confederations, the round ball will wait until October at least, according to the FIFA decision "due to the disruptions caused by the (Covid-19) epidemic on a global scale."
Thus, Neymar, who played on Sunday before last the Champions League final match, which his French team Paris Saint-Germain lost to Bayern Munich (0 -1) in Lisbon, will not be forced to travel to the other side of the globe, while Messi appears far away every Far from thinking about his country, because of his struggle with his Spanish team Barcelona to leave his ranks this summer.
The matter is different for the other two stars, Frenchman Kylian Mbappe and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, as it is time for the national teams to meet for the first time since November 2019, the date of the last match before the outbreak of the epidemic.
International competitions were suspended for an unprecedented period of 10 months in many countries since World War II, and this caused the European Cup 2020 finals to be postponed for one year, as they were rescheduled from this summer to June and July 2021. The international matches scheduled for next September will be witnessed. Some distinguished confrontations, led by France with Croatia (on September 8), and Germany, champion of the 2014 World Cup, with Spain, the 2010 world champion, scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
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