An unexpected inconvenience would arise in the next few days for Colombia and other South American teams thinking about the March qualifications. This is due to the coronavirus pandemic and FIFA regulations, which leave the door open for clubs not to lend players to national teams if they consider taking into account covid-19 and restrictive measures in different countries.
In view of these FIFA regulations, Sky Sports in England have warned that clubs will not lend South Americans, Portuguese and a few African players for FIFA, from the last week of March, because those places are on the “red list” of the United Kingdom for high coronavirus cases.
According to Sky, in the United Kingdom there is an obligation for all people to enter the country from the places on the “red list” they are isolated for 10 days in a hotel in strict quarantine and then have the respective tests, so that the English clubs would choose not to give in to some of their figures.
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In the case of the Colombian national team, he could be without James Rodríguez, Yerry Mina and Dávinson Sánchez (convened constantly), as well as Steven Alzate and Jéfferson Lerma. However, contagion and restrictions between countries are expected to have decreased by March.
The FIFA Council Office has kept this until at least the end of April on Friday relaxation of the rule on the provision of international players, a compromise between clubs and national teams in the context of the health of the covid-19 pandemic.
This measure was introduced in August 2020.
“After receiving positive feedback from the football community”, the court explains in a statement that it has renewed these measures for the next international matches for women’s and men’s football. “
Clubs are normally required to allow players to join national team calls in windows international decisions decided by FIFA.
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The softening of the rule allows them to consider quarantine measures or restrictions pandemic-related displacement.
Covid-19 accentuated the usual tensions around the windows of international matches of national teams.
In addition to the overload of matches and the risk of injury, there is now the threat of illness or the need to serve a period of isolation.
Therefore, clubs can keep their players if “a quarantine of at least five days it is mandatory to count from their arrival “at the place” where the match of the player’s national team is played “or at the place of the club on their return, according to the world football body.