The president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia, said Monday that he will appeal the FIFA ruling that orders Brazil-Argentina to play again on a date and in a place to be determined and sanctions four players of the albiceleste selection.
“As president of the AFA I am committed to making all the necessary efforts and appealing FIFA’s decision regarding the qualifying match with Brazil. Our priority is the Argentine team. Always,” Tapia wrote on his Twitter social network account.
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Minutes earlier, FIFA announced that the Brazil-Argentina qualifying round for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which was suspended on September 5 at the NeoQuimica Arena in Sao Paulo, must be completed. It was halted in farcical fashion just five minutes after kick off when Brazilian health officials entered the pitch to stop Argentina after five minutes when members of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency entered the field claiming that four Argentine players had falsified information upon entering the country and that they should remain in isolation.
Four sanctioned
The Argentines Emiliano Buendía, Emiliano Martínez, Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero were sanctioned by FIFA with a two-day suspension for failing to comply with the regulations ‘The return of football: international match protocol’.
Brazilian health regulations required that people who had been in the United Kingdom, India and South Africa in the last 14 days must comply with a mandatory ten-day quarantine and according to the health authorities, the players who play in English soccer provided “false information “.
Buendía and Emiliano Martínez play for Aston Villa, Christian Romero for Tottenham, while Lo Celso was also on the ‘spurs’ squad before being loaned to Villarreal in January.
fines
In addition to the sanctions against the players, the FIFA disciplinary commission imposed economic fines on the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) for “infractions committed against security and public order” and on the AFA for “failure to comply with its obligations with respect to security and public order, preparations for the match and your participation in it”.
In the absence of another two days of the South American qualifiers, which will be played in March, Brazil and Argentina have assured qualification for the World Cup in Qatar.
If there are no changes, the albiceleste will not be able to count on the four players sanctioned against Venezuela, as a local, and Ecuador, as a visitor.
