Embarrassment in Brazil - Argentina Suspended the match after the entry of the police to deport four Argentine players
"It was Bolsonaro."
This is how the reaction of an important sector of Argentines and the media to the scandalous suspension on Sunday of the match for the World Cup qualifiers that the Brazilian and Argentine teams were to play in Sao Paulo could be summed up.
"They have blood in their eyes,"
argued a journalist on the sports channel
TyC Sports
, implying that the unusual suspension of the match for health reasons is a kind of revenge for Brazil's defeat against Argentina in the recent final of the America's Cup at the Maracana.
"I am going to insist a lot with
the tweet of Bolsonaro's son
, because it gives an idea of the political position that Brazil takes before the Argentine team," added a journalist on the TN news signal.
Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro, asked on the same Sunday afternoon that Argentina be "severely punished", since the national team knew it was violating "Brazilian laws."
Senator, the president's son is known for his inflammatory messages and his constant criticism of the neighboring country.
What happened on Sunday at the Corinthians stadium monopolized the talks at the beginning of Monday in both countries.
Break into the field
Five minutes and 22 seconds of the game were played when four employees of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) of Brazil entered the playing field.
Anvisa officials interrupted the clash
for the World Cup qualifiers citing health reasons.
Anvisa was looking for four Argentine players:
Emiliano Martínez, Cristian Romero, Gio Lo Celso and Emiliano Buendía
.
All four play for Premier League clubs, and the UK is one of the countries that Brazilian authorities consider risky.
Those traveling from there to Brazil must undergo a 10-day quarantine.
Anvisa alleges that the four players falsified their sworn statement when entering Brazil, because they failed to say that in recent days they were in the United Kingdom, despite the fact that their immediately previous stopover was Caracas.
The Argentine Soccer Association (AFA) denied this and stressed that there is a "health bubble" that governs all official soccer competitions in the region
and that it was accepted by Brazil at the time.
FIFA studies the case
FIFA has already taken action on the matter and indicated that it will analyze the information received from Brazil to "make the corresponding decision in due time."
The governing body of world football also regretted "the scenes that preceded the suspension" and that "millions of followers were deprived of this meeting that faced the teams of two of the countries with the greatest soccer weight in the world."
One of the axes of the debate in Argentina involves the following question:
why did Anvisa wait for the match to start before taking action?
The Brazilian agency said in a statement that in the days before the match it had notified the Argentine team, the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) that
the four players should stay at the hotel
.
The Argentines are not clear when responding to this point.
Migration forms, which will sooner or later be disseminated, will be able to give a first clue of what happened and of who is more attached to the truth of the facts.
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