England’s Sky Sports reported on Friday that FIFA expanded the ruling on the release of players until April. This means that clubs will not be obliged to lend their players for the FIFA date in March., all because of the situation the world is experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the measures taken by the United Kingdom is that any person who returns to its territory, coming from a country on the ‘red list’, You will have to spend a mandatory 10-day quarantine in a hotel. South American countries, some Africans and Portugal are included there. For this reason, the Premier League and Championship teams could refuse to have their figures attend the Conmebol Qualifiers.
This would affect the Colombian National Team, which has several players in English football. James Rodríguez and Yerry Mina at Everton, Davinson Sánchez at Tottenham, Steven Alzate at Brighton and Jefferson Lerma at Bournemouth. If those teams don’t want to give them up, Reinaldo Rueda will have to look for other options for the games against Brazil and Paraguay.
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The Brazilian team, rival of Colombia on March 26 in Barranquilla, It would also be affected because several of its stars are in the Premier: Thiago Silva in Chelsea, Ederson and Gabriel Jesus in City, Richarlison in Everton, Roberto Firmino in Liverpool, among others. The Paraguayans would have Miguel Almirón (Newcastle) at risk.
Colombia is seventh on the road to Qatar 2022 with 4 points, product of the victory against Venezuela and the draw against Chile in Santiago. Rueda will debut in this double round of Eliminatory.
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