Football
The president of the Brazilian club regretted that his players were “forced to play without any security” the championship of the State of Rio de Janeiro, which resumed ten days ago.
Fluminense celebrates, it was almost a year ago.
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“The safe game is to stay at home (…) the rest is of no importance at the moment,” wrote Mario Bittencourt on Instagram, just before his players entered the field against Volta Redonda. (3-0 defeat). The club is not fooling against the resumption of the carioca championship, the first to resume in South America even though Brazil is the second most bereaved country in the world by the coronavirus with more than 57,000 deaths including 9800 in the state alone from Rio.
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“There are still thousands of people dying in Brazil, and during this time we are forced to play without any security. (…) Infected players, low-budget clubs who do not have the means to respect the health protocol, and all, all of us, who risk contamination, “he deplored.
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Fluminense, like Botafogo, another big carioca club, disputed the resumption as of June 18 of the local championship, claiming a resumption not before July, but justice ruled them wrong and forced them to resume from June 28. The club refused to play at the legendary Maracana stadium, which has been transformed into a field hospital to treat patients of Covid-19.
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On their jerseys, the players displayed a message of thanks to the health personnel. Botafogo’s supporters also supported caregivers and the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement against racism by kneeling on the ground before their match kicked off.
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(AFP)
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