The FIFA president noted that they understand the risk situations and expect the vaccines to change the situation
Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, commented that they cannot force any player to attend with their national team in March and acknowledged that it was very difficult to postpone the duels of the Elimination of CONMEBOL.
“We have to play these games and we will sit down with the teams, everyone understands the situation. Today we cannot force a footballer to go and play a game if there are risks“We understand that there are also situations of governments, it is very delicate and difficult, we hope that with the vaccines the situation will improve and we will not have to postpone more matches,” said Gianni Infantino, FIFA president.
The head of the world’s largest football body has added that he expects “full stadiums” at the 2022 Qatar World Cup and analyze what will happen to the Club World Cup to be held in China, the format may be as above, due to the problems caused by the coronavirus.
“A World Cup with full stadiums, I’m sure of that. I’m sure because we have witnessed how a Club World Cup could be organized in Qatar with 30 per cent of the stadium capacity, with secure protocols.”
“We have been debating with the authorities about how it should be done, vaccination just started a few weeks ago, the vaccine helped and hopefully we can get rid of the coronavirus; if in two years, if at the moment we are still talking about confinement, behind closed doors, the World Cup would be the last of our problems as a human race“He concluded.