translated from Spanish: Minister of Sport and Vidal case: “There is a lack of responsibility and prudence”

The Minister of Sports, Cecilia Pérez, again criticized the Chilean national team Arturo Vidal, who tested positive for coronavirus and days before carried out activities outside the sports field, for which he received a health summary. Asked about what happened to the ‘King’, the secretary of state declared that “I was one of those who called him irresponsible (…) Because beyond the normative sanctions, the health summary that can be determined by the health authorities, here, even if there were no regulatory sanctions, there is an ethical sanction, without a doubt, that relates to the lack of responsibility and the lack of prudence.” I have always pointed it out, football has privileges, football has benefits, and it has to take care of them,” he added during an activity where prominent athletes from Team Chile called on citizens to get vaccinated. In the same vein, the former president of the Piñera government pointed out that “when athletes that one loves so much, athletes that one admires as much as Arturo Vidal or as our other soccer teams can be, they lack responsibility, it hurts more, because the example they are giving is super fucked up, super serious.” As for the realization of the Copa America in Brazil, Cecilia Pérez said that “one understands that many times the pressures are strong on the part of Conmebol, that when they do not show up they can suffer serious sports sanctions, but I think one has to put oneself in the case of the players themselves, of the coaching staff. It is human to be afraid, to have anguish, and fear of getting sick,” he said.

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