Far from being a party international football, football has had to face multiple restrictions in this regard Close FIFA due to the pandemic of covid-19 which led to various preventive measures and for this reason had to cancel Conmebol Qualifications, the teams from Concacaf they still don’t travel to US and clubs in Europe did not lend to their players.
What the England, France and Germany are countries with a large number of covid cases, their league teams have decided not to release their players for FIFA Date. In this regard, the governing body of Mexican football He stressed that, on this occasion, even in the face of the pandemic, it was not obligatory to give in to the footballers.
Simply in the UK, according to data from Johns Hopkins University126,000 people have died from the disease and this has forced the government of those countries to tighten preventive measures with restrictions on flights from certain countries. While in Germany, another country affected by virus, the death toll is 74,715 as of March 21.
For this reason, the teams in First league and Bundesliga decided not to give in to anyone and stay in the balloon while he was in France, Professional football league (LFP) announced that clubs will not lend their foreign players outside the countries that form European Union.
These measures forced CONMEBOL to postpone World Cup Qualifiers because many of the great players you have Brazil, Argentina, Chile, etc., are found in teams from the Old Continent.
Concacaf returned to play in Europe
As the United States has followed similar steps, CONCACAF teams will return to Europe to take advantage of Close FIFA. In this sense, there were also beneficial selections, such as Honduras who traveled to Belarus for a visiting duel and then go to Greece to face the local team at the Estadio del PAOK of the Greek league.
Even the United States national team had to leave their country and will play against Jamaica in Austria. Costa Rica, in addition it will play against Mexico in the Austria, will also be in Bosnia and Herzegovina to confront the locals as part of this international friction a FIFA closes.
Conmebol with a few games
Without the possibility of having Playoffs and without its main players, only a few selections of CONMEBOL they will have friendly duels. In this case there are combined Chile Yes Bolivia They will face El Teniente Stadium in Chile.
Peru had a chance to play Mexico in a friendly match against Mazatlan, but the group still rejected the proposal as a precautionary measure because Mexico It is one of the countries with the most cases of coronavirus and is the third with the most deaths from this disease in the world.
Argentina reunited the U23 national team for a pair of friendlies against the Japanese national team in the eastern country and which will serve as a void for the painting he will go to Olympic Games.
- The champions had already been affected
Finally, it must be remembered that these restrictions have already had an impact on the matches at UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League who had to change headquarters, as was the case Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid in the eighth of the Champions League that was played in Budapest, Hungary. All as part of this new normal football in the middle pandemic.