An unexpected inconvenience would occur for the next few days Colombia and other South American selection thinking of the qualifying matches in March. This is due to the coronavirus pandemic and FIFA’s stipulation that it leaves the door open for clubs not to lend players to national teams if they consider taking into account the Covid-19 and the restrictive measures in various countries.
Given these FIFA Regulations, Sky Sports in England has warned that clubs would not borrow South American, Portuguese and some African players for the FIFA dates of the last week of March as those places are on the UK’s “red list” for high coronavirus cases.
According to Sky, in the UK there is an obligation for all people entering the country of the places on the ‘red list’ they are isolated for 10 days in a hotel under strict quarantine and then undergo the respective tests, so that the English clubs would choose not to give in to some of their grades.
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In the case of the Colombian national team, it could be left without James Rodríguez, Yerry Mina and Dávinson Sánchez (constantly called up), as well as Steven Alzate and Jéfferson Lerma. However, contagions and cross-country restrictions are expected to have eased by the month of March.
The FIFA Council Bureau held this Friday at least until the end of April the relaxation of the rule on making international players available, a compromise between clubs and national teams in the health context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That measure was introduced in August 2020.
“After receiving positive feedback from the football community”, the authority explains in a statement that it has extended those measures with a view to the next international matches for women’s and men’s football. “
Clubs are normally required to allow their players to join their national teams’ calls in the windows international decisions taken by FIFA.
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The softening of the rule allows them to take quarantine measures or restrictions into account displacement in connection with the pandemic.
The Covid-19 has accentuated the usual tensions around the windows of national teams’ international matches.
To the overload of matches and the risk of injury comes the threat of illness or a period of isolation.
Clubs may therefore keep their players as “a quarantine of at least five days it is mandatory to count from their arrival “at the place” where the player’s national team “is being played or at the club’s venue upon their return, according to the World Football Organization.