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The Brazilian National Team, home to the Copa América and candidate to retain the title, will kick off the 47th edition of the competition today, when it faces Venezuela at the Mané Garrincha stadium, in Brasilia, for the first date of Group B .
The game, framed in a climate of great uncertainty due to the dozen positive cases in coronavirus of Vinotinto players, will be played from 18 with the arbitration of Uruguayan Esteban Ostojich, while his Chilean colleague Julio Bascuñán will be in charge of the VAR, and the televising of TyC Sports.
The team technically directed by Tite arrives at a great football moment, with a team made up of several players who shine in European football and who march first in the South American Qualifiers, with an ideal score, the product of six victories in the same number of games played.
All this was reflected in the recent double round of Qualifiers, in which the Verdeamarela won 2-0, both as a local from Ecuador and as a visitor from Paraguay.
In those two games, Tite repeated the defense and part of the midfield, commanded by Captain Casemiro, but varied on the offensive side.
Facing the clash against the Vinotinto team, the Brazilian coach did not confirm the line-up, but the doubts just go through the names that will make up the attack to accompany Neymar.
With a weak presence in the Qualifiers – it lost four of six games – Venezuela has got used to being a more competitive rival in the Copa América in recent years.
However, now everything is uphill. It is that on Friday the delegation presented a coronavirus outbreak due to the appearance of twelve positive cases in the tests carried out upon arrival in Brasilia.
Although he did not detail the names of those affected, they are “players and members of the coaching staff” and Conmebol has already been notified, although both the body and the Venezuelan Federation itself did not provide information.
“All those diagnosed with the virus are asymptomatic and isolated in individual rooms and monitored.”
Venezuela had already reported that midfielder Tomás Rincón, captain of the team, did not get on the plane from Caracas due to symptoms compatible with the coronavirus.
Upon learning of this situation, Conmebol announced a regulatory change and set the number of changes corresponding to players affected by Covid-19 in the list of summoned at “unlimited”, when it was initially set at five for the entire competition.
In terms of football, Venezuela from 2007 to this part had as a minimum objective to overcome the first phase, something that it achieved more than once, complicating renowned teams.
To achieve this goal, the selection led by José Penseiro will have to overcome a tough group, which in addition to the local one is made up of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Precisely Ecuador, led by Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, and Colombia will meet in Cuiabá from 9:00 p.m. (Argentine time) with arbitration by missionary Néstor Pitana.
Probable formations
Brazil: Ederson; Danilo, Éder Militao, Marquinhos, Alex Sandro; Fred, Casemiro, Richarlison; Neymar, Gabriel Jesús or Lucas Paquetá and Roberto Firmino or Gabriel Barbosa. DT: Tite.
Venezuela will confirm today with the new summoned. DT: José Pensieve.
Stadium: Mané Garrincha (Brasilia).
Referee: Esteban Ostojich (Uruguay).
Start time: 18 (TyC Sports).
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Colombia: Ospina; Medina, Mina, Sánchez, Tesillo; Cuéllar, Uribe, Cuadrado, Luis Díaz; Duvan Zapata and Muriel. DT: Reinaldo Rueda.
Ecuador: Ortíz; Arreaga, Estupiñán, Hincapié, Preciado; Noboa, Franco, Díaz, Plata; Campana and Martínez or Valencia. DT: Gustavo Alfaro.
Stadium: Arena Pantanal (Cuiabá).
Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina).
Time: 21 (TyC Sports).
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