So what would have happened if an English club was drawn in the same group as Besiktas in the champ lge.
Turkey still on the red list. Do we believe that the whole playing staff of that club would have 10 days quarantine.
I thought there were different rules for elite sport.
The Argentinian FA have suggested if you don't come you will potentially lose your place and it will go against you for the World CupThis is an outrageous situation to be in. I'm angry at the club and the players, the club for not being able to force the players into staying and for the players for putting our good start to the season and big games in jeopardy.
AFA are just a bunch of crooks. No way they would keep their best players out for the WC. The Argentines would riot.The Argentinian FA have suggested if you don't come you will potentially lose your place and it will go against you for the World Cup
Argentina stars Giovani Lo Celso, Cristian Romero, Emiliano Martinez and Emi Buendia under investigation by Brazilian authorities for 'breaching quarantine rules' and face TWO WEEKS of isolation before their 10-day quarantine in the UK
News article from daily mail
They apparently didn't say they had been in the UK in the last 14 days on their documents and now could face 14 days quarantine in Brazil before even coming home....
Either way, FIFA will surely have a say in this as Brazil can’t just make up rules as they see fit. Taking home advantage to a whole new level if you can ban the other teams biggest stars arbitrarily.
Sounds like the Argentinian FA messed up the Entry paperwork for Brazil. And Brazil are pissed off they are missing all their European based players and Argentina are not. So they are using this as leverage to make sure the 4 players from the UK cannot play against them. They will either have to quarantine for 14 days in Brazil or get deported and fined - either way they will miss the Brazil game.
Sorry but very much disagree there given the quality of the nations involved. I wouldn't want two out of Uruguay/Chile/Colombia to miss out every time and nobody else to have a chance. I'd be more inclined to merge it with North American qualifying to get a larger pool of nations, or at least move the Central American sides to the South American system.The WC qualifying is a joke in South America anyway. They have one big group for 10 countries (so they have to play 18 qualifiers, putting a massive strain on the Global football calendar, and the top 4 qualify automatically. The 5th place team has a play off with a pretty weak team from Asia or Australasia. So in reality South America always gets 5 qualifiers from 10 entrants - 50% participation at World Cup. There is a reason why Brazil and Argentina qualify for every world cup - it is much easier to qualify than it is in Europe
In Europe there are usually groups of 5 or 6 teams where only top team qualifies automatically.
They should split the South American countries into two groups of 5, with the top two teams in each group qualifying, and the best 3rd place team going into the intercontinental play off match.
Well, actually, they should only get 3 spots and not 5, but that is another argument.
Sorry but very much disagree there given the quality of the nations involved. I wouldn't want two out of Uruguay/Chile/Colombia to miss out every time and nobody else to have a chance. I'd be more inclined to merge it with North American qualifying to get a larger pool of nations, or at least move the Central American sides to the South American system.
You literally said they should only get three spots rather than five, which I put in bold. Which would effectively mean Brazil, Argentina and one other every time, with everyone else missing out. In Europe, a big country can go out if they have a very bad campaign, but that's completely different to big countries being guaranteed to go out every time. I don't have a problem with the groups-of-5 bit.Totally disagree. All I am saying is they should have 2 groups of 5 instead of 1 group of 10. And 8 WC qualifiers instead of 18. In line with European qualification.
The two groups would be picked using seeded buckets so the best teams should qualify most years. But it would be much fairer, but to the entire continent and also to teams in other continents.
In Europe, if England, Holland or Germany have. Bad qualification campaign they miss out. Should be the same for South American countries.