Liverpool refuses to travel to Egypt, Mohamed Salah, and the Football Association is seeking help from FIFA

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The English club Liverpool apologized for not allowing its Egyptian international player, Mohamed Salah, to represent the Egyptian team in the two African qualifiers, due to travel restrictions in Britain for returnees from some countries, which are forced to stay in quarantine for 10 days, while the letter indicated that the Federation Egyptian football will request an exception from the International Football Association (FIFA).

And the Egyptian Football Association published an official statement on the social networking site “Twitter”, in which it stated that the Egyptian Federation received a letter from Liverpool apologizing for the inability of its player, Mohamed Salah, to join the ranks of the national team in its next camp, which includes facing Angola in Cairo, and Gabon in Franceville, during The first and second rounds of the African continent's qualifying rounds for the World Cup.

The English club’s letter referred to the precautionary measures applied in England to confront the outbreak of the Corona virus in the world, which puts the returnees with some countries in sanitary isolation for 10 days upon their return to England, and the English club also expressed in its letter its hope that the Egyptian Federation would understand that it was forced to do so in the face of exposure. The player was subjected to a quarantine for this period and was physically affected by this, as well as the uncertainty of the conditions of the place of quarantine determined by the English authorities, and the letter indicated that the English club took the same measure with a number of its foreign players.

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