“It also needs to be explained how Brazilian players based in England should have been able to avoid quarantine there but not Argentina players. If FIFA is not going to sanction the clubs then they need to tell them. “This has to be sorted it out within the next 24 hours – Liverpool and the other clubs need to know if they can play their Brazilians or not or whether FIFA is going to enforce the five-day rule for not releasing the players. How can Brazil complain about teams in England not releasing their players when the Brazilian authorities prevented Argentina from playing with players arriving from England? It’s that dichotomy that the head of the European Club Association pointed to earlier that should give the Premier League negotiating leverage as they work to avoid this five-day ban. Notably, Argentina have not joined in with this request because their four Premier League-based players left their clubs anyway, and will now have to quarantine for ten days - and of course they didn’t even get to play against Brazil thanks to the farcical scenes that played out during their qualifier, which was shut down by authorities for said players breaking quarantine rules. The Brazilian national team were most affected by this, with nine players held back, but they have been joined by Chile, Mexico, and Paraguay as well in asking FIFA to invoke this rule. Petersburg since they both fall within that September 10-14 period. In Chelsea’s case, that would mean that Thiago Silva wouldn’t be eligible for Saturday’s game against Aston Villa and Tuesday’s game against Zenit St. to punish clubs for withholding players from unnecessary travel, fatigue, and injury/COVID risk. Before the latest international break of bad football with a side of fervent nationalism, Premier League clubs agreed to not release players for World Cup qualifiers involving countries on the UK’s travel red-list, as they would’ve needed to quarantine for ten days upon their return - with neither FIFA nor the UK government willing to grant exemptions to that rule, unlike earlier in the pandemic.Īs it turns out, those players might have to miss out this weekend anyway, thanks to a “five-day rule” which is apparently a thing, and gives FIFA the power to ban players from any and all football matches for five days following an international period for which the players were not released - i.e.
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