“The Disciplinary Committee has decided to replay this match on a date and in a place to be determined by FIFA.“, wrote the international federation in a press release. The Argentine federation immediately announced its desire to appeal this decision, through the voice of its president Claudio Tapia on Twitter. In a press release, the Brazilian federation also expressed its “disagreement“.
The match, initially scheduled for September 5 in Sao Paulo, was interrupted following only five minutes of play following the intervention of Brazilian health authorities, four Argentinian players then playing in England being accused of violating anti-Covid protocols. Representatives of the Anvisa health agency and the federal police entered the field to end the meeting, in total confusion.
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The final stoppage of this match did not prevent Neymar’s Brazil and Lionel Messi’s Argentina from subsequently winning their ticket for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (November 21-December 18), without waiting for the decision. of the Disciplinary Committee. The holding of this poster by the final tournament should therefore have no accounting issue, apart from the fact of definitively closing the calendar of the single South American pool.
Noting “several shortcomings” on the part of the federations concerned, the Fifa disciplinary committee also imposed a fine of 550,000 Swiss francs (525,000 euros) in Brazil and 250,000 Swiss francs (238,000 euros) in Argentina. . Finally, the four Argentine players in question, Giovanni Lo Celso (then at Tottenham, now at Villarreal), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Emiliano Buendia (Aston Villa) and Cristian Romero (Tottenham), were suspended for two matches. They are accused by Brazilian health authorities of having provided “false information” when they arrived in the country, and of having violated a ministerial order prohibiting the entry into Brazil of any foreigner who has stayed in the United Kingdom in the previous two weeks.
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