Coronavirus: Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs will not release their internationals brought to play outside the EU (Illustration) -

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Several clubs, like Losc, were thinking about it.

Finally, a decision was taken "unanimously", said the Professional Football League (LFP): the clubs of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 have decided not to release their internationals brought to evolve outside the European Union. during the March truce, due to a possible sanitary septage on their return, the LFP announced on Wednesday.

“In the absence of exemption from the septaine for foreign international players made available to their national team […], the clubs will not make available to the selections the foreign players summoned for matches outside the EU / EEA zone ( European Economic Area) during the next international period in March, ”wrote the LFP in a press release.

France should benefit from an exception

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Fifa has relaxed its rules for summoning players for the next international break, allowing clubs to retain their footballers if quarantine is mandatory on return.

And everywhere in Europe, the positions of clubs have multiplied in favor of blocking internationals brought to travel outside the Old Continent.

This decision by French professional clubs complicates the work of many coaches, in Europe, where some qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup are scheduled outside the EU, such as the Serbia-Portugal clash (March 27), and in Africa, where must take place at the end of the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations scheduled for the beginning of 2022.

The France team, which for its part must travel outside the EU to Kazakhstan (March 28) then to Bosnia (March 31) after receiving Ukraine (March 24), should benefit from an exception.

According to sources familiar with the matter, discussions have taken place between the French Federation, UEFA and the government with a view to granting exemptions from septaine to the players concerned on the condition that they respect a strict health framework, the idea being that they pass from one sanitary bubble to another, without contact with the outside, during their transfers from the club to the selection and vice versa.

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