The coach of the Brazilian national football team, Adenor Leonardo Bacchi “Tite”, requested, on Wednesday, not to play the suspended match against Argentina in the World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifiers, which no longer affects the classification.
According to a statement issued by the Brazilian Football Confederation, the entity “will accept the proposal of FIFA and the Argentine Football Association so that the match scheduled for September will not be played.”
In front of the position of the Technical Committee, we will seek to obtain FIFA so that the match does not take place and I will spare no effort to meet this request. Our priority is to win the tournament six times in Qatar. The statement was quoted by the president of the Brazilian Confederation, Adnaldo Rodriguez.
“If the match is not recommended by the national team leadership, we will fight so that it does not happen,” Rodriguez added, referring to the request made by Tite, the national team coordinator and former football player Juninho Paulista.
The said match was held on September 5, 2021 in Sao Paulo, when the health authorities stopped it after six minutes of play due to alleged violations by the Argentine delegation of the restrictions that had prevailed in the country as a result of an epidemic. COVID-19.
According to Brazilian authorities, four Argentine footballers violated quarantine regulations established at the time for travelers from the United Kingdom.
In April, FIFA set the new match date for September 22, but later proposed with the AFC not to commit.
The dispute in the match does not change the ranking of the South American qualifiers, with Brazil leading with 45 points and Argentina second with 39 points, 11 ahead of Uruguay, which ranked third.
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