Far from being a party of international football, Football had to face multiple restrictions on this Close FIFA due to the pandemic of covid-19 which has led to several prevention measures and therefore had to cancel the CONMEBOL Qualifiers the teams of Concacaf still without traveling to United States and European clubs did not lend to their players.
how England, France and Germany are countries with a high number of covid cases, their league teams decided not to let their players go for the FIFA Date. In this sense, the governing body of the Mexican football he pointed out that on this occasion and in the face of the pandemic it was not obligatory to give in to the footballers.
Simply in the UK, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, 126 thousand people have died from the disease and this has forced the government of these countries to tighten measures to prevent restricted flights from certain countries. While in Germany, Another country whipped by the virus, The death toll rises to 74 thousand 715 on March 21.
For this reason, teams from the Premier League and the Bundesliga decided not to give in to anyone and stay in the bubble of protection while a France, the Professional Football League (LFP) announced that the clubs will not lend to their foreign players outside the countries that make up the European union.
These measures forced the CONMEBOL to postpone the World Cup qualifiers for many of the great players of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, And so on, are in teams from the Old Continent.
CONCACAF returned to play in Europe
As the United States has followed similar measures, CONCACAF teams will return to Europe to take advantage of the Close FIFA. In this sense there have also been selections benefited as Honduras who traveled to Belarus for a visiting duel and then will go to Greece to face the local team at the Stadium of the PAOK of the Greek league.
Even the United States National Team had to leave their country and play against Jamaica in Austria. Costa Rica, In addition to playing in front Mexico a Austria, Will also be in Bosnia and Herzegovina to face the locals as part of this international friction of FIFA closes.
Conmebol with few games
Without the possibility of having Qualifiers and without their main players, only a few selections of CONMEBOL they will have friendly duels. In this case there are the combinations of Chile i Bolivia that will face the Stage the Lieutenant of Chile.
Peru had a chance to play Mexico in a friendly match up front Mazatlan, But the Inca ensemble rejected the proposal as a preventive measure because Mexico it is one of the countries with the most cases of coronavirus and is the third with the most deaths from this disease in the world.
Argentina reunited the Selection Sub-23 for a pair of friendly before the Selection of Japan in the country of the East and that will serve as bonfire for the picture that will go to the Olimpic games.
- Champions had already been affected
Finally, it should be remembered that these restrictions had already had an impact on the parties of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europe League they had to change their headquarters as was the case with the Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid in Round of 16 of Champions that gambled in Budapest, Hungary. All as part of this new normalcy of football in the midst of the pandemic.