El Salvador’s national football team traveled to the Caribbean to take on Montserrat without three players called up against Granada
The National selection American football The Savior is already in Curaçao to play his second game First round of the Concacaf World Cup qualifying tournaments heading to Qatar 2022.
But there was three soccer players, called up for the national team against Granada, who is not with the Blue to play against Montserrat, second rival to this FIFA date in March.
The absentees are the FAS goalkeeper, Kevin Carabantes, the defender of Santa Tecla, Alexander Mendoza and the Aurora attacker from Bolivia: Erick Rivera
Until this Saturday, no one from the Technical Corps provided public clarification on the absence of the three footballers who were called up for the game against Granada in which the Select they won 2-0 at the Cuscatlán Stadium.
By the way, none of the players mentioned had any activity against it Granada
COURT tried to contact Press of the federation already Carlos De los Cobos to know why these players did not travel. From Santa Tecla FC they replied that for Mendoza it is a “technical decision
Hugo Carrillo, president of Fesfut, told CANCHA in this regard that he “understands that De los Cobos informed footballers who did not travel to Curaçao that this was a technical decision, taking into account the protocols biosafety and number allowing Concacaf to play in these kinds of games ”.
In response to statements made by Hugo Carrillo it is worth clarifying that this is not the case Concacaf the one who decides how many soccer players a team should bring to another country in qualifying matches, but FIFA. The board of world football has, as is known, allowed in total 23 players by the national team.
For example, for this first round, the soccer team has Guatemala took his 23 soccer players to meet the British Virgin Islands in Curacao (nation wherever the Selecta will play), while Nicaragua took his 22 selected a Dominican Republic for the match he will hold against Turks and Caicos Islands. Both through qualifiers.
In fact, Granada brought 23 troops to the country to measure with the Selecta. So it is clear that neither Guatemalans, Grenadians or Nicaraguans have mobilized just 20 footballers for “sanitary restrictions
“Only 20 trips and they had to to stay three, so easy. Today was our turn, in others trips Others have stayed, ”Alexander Mendoza told CANCHA.