Venezuelan referee Jesus Valenzuela suspended the Brazil-Argentina derby prematurely on Sunday night.
This match was played in Brazil, to calculate the 2022 World Cup qualifiers for the South American region.
Only 5 minutes after its launch, representatives of the Brazilian health authorities intervened, and demanded that 4 Argentine players be removed from the field, on the grounds that they violated the health regulations in force in Brazil.
The procedures stipulate that players coming from Britain must undergo a 10-day quarantine (to avoid transmitting “Corona” infection), which the Argentine quartet, who is active in the England Championship, did not do.
As a result, the two teams stopped competing over the green rectangle, and things almost deviated and the field turned into a fight arena, after the players’ nerves became tense. Noting that the two stars Lionel Messi and Neymar participated mainly.
Everyone waited for a long time, before the referee decided to stop the match permanently, and postpone it to a later date. Note that the result was a negative tie when it was suspended.
The referee of the match will write a report that he will send to FIFA, which studies the “file”, and will later take a final decision regarding this meeting.
The qualifiers are held in Latin America with the participation of 10 teams, and after 18 rounds (7 rounds have been played so far), the top four qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, and the fifth-placed will play the two Al-Sadd matches with the representative of the Oceania region.
