translated from Spanish: It’s official, Brazil vs Argentina is suspended in Conmebol

Sao Paulo, Brazil .- The match between Brazil and Argentina that was played this Sunday in Sao Paulo became a novel to be suspended, according to the albiceleste selection, after the intervention of the Brazilian national health surveillance agency (Anvisa) because four Argentine footballers violated the anti-covid protocol. The match between #Brasil and @Argentina was suspended,” the Argentine national team reported on Twitter.The Players of Argentina, with Lionel Messi at the head, left the field in the middle of the classic after the entry of Anvisa officials who seek to enforce a deportation order for four Argentine footballers who play in clubs of the Premier League of England. We arrived at this point because everything that Anvisa (the brazilian health agency) oriented, from the first moment, was not fulfilled. They were directed to remain isolated while awaiting deportation, but did not comply. They move to the stadium and enter the field, in a series of breaches,” the director-president of the entity, Antonio Barra Torres, told the television broadcast. Read more: Amazing! Authorities stop classic Brazil vs Argentina to deport playersBarra Torres refers to goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez and striker Emiliano Buendia, of Aston Villa, and defender Cristian Romero and midfielder Giovani Lo Celso, of Tottenham, who are accused by Anvisa of giving “false information” in their entry to Brazil for the game of the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup this Sunday in Sao Paulo.The four players lied on the entry form to Brazil, not reporting that they were in the United Kingdom at some point in the fourteen days prior to their arrival for this pre-World Cup match, according to the entity. A ministerial order of June 23 prohibits the entry into Brazilian territory of any foreign person from the United Kingdom, India or South Africa, to prevent the spread of variants of the coronavirus.” Those four players have to be deported from Brazil. They will be fined and punished for a series of health infractions. The first infraction was not complying with the isolation, the previous one for not having reliably answered the traveler questionnaire, and now for playing. With more than 500,000 dead in Brazil, in the midst of the pandemic, orders are being breached, I don’t know whose command,” the executive added. Announcement of the suspension of Brazil’s match against Argentina/@Argentina Martínez, Romero and Lo Celso were on the field, while Buendía was not called up to join the Albiceleste squad for the clash against the ‘Canarinha’. The match was interrupted in the 5th minute by a game action, but a couple of minutes later a group of people entered, who would be officials of the Brazilian health agency Anvisa, with orders against the four Argentine players. Amid clashes with some of those officials, the Albiceleste players retreated to the dressing room while the eleven Brazil players wait on the field of the Neo Química Arena stadium, formerly Arena Corinthians, in Sao Paulo. Indigenous woman will replace Colón in Paseo de la Reforma

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