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MEETING WITH JAIR BOLSONARO

Will there be a Copa América? Conmebol key meeting

Published:6/06/2021 - 19:48h

Updated:6/06/2021 - 19:48h

This Saturday afternoon a meeting was held between the 10 presidents of the South American Federations with Jair Bolsonaro to determine the viability of the Copa América

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Since it announced that Brazil would be the new headquarters of the Glass America the controversy has been served, considering that the country crosses a deep sanitary crisis in the middle of the pandemia of the coronavirus and the situation, nowadays, is very worrisome, something that has derived in the annoyance and indignation of the own players sudamericanos.

In spite of this, from the Conmebol continue firm with the tournament and, save to surprise, will contest when it is planned, with crisis or no. This Saturday, in fact, gathered the ten presidents of the Federations sudamericanas, via zoom, with the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, to evaluate the situation and define the continuity of the tournament that has to begin the next 13 June.

The meeting was headed by Alejandro Domínguez, president of the Conmebol, and the decision has been clear: "it plays the Glass", would have said, according to desvela 'Sportive World'. For this, have ratified the sanitary protocols and the confirmation of the headquarters in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Cuiaba and Goiania, locaciones that have a 'double felt' in the election: they are relatively near between himself and the rulers are affine to the management of Bolsonaro.

It is a situation that the players, fanatical and especially, the Brazilians, have not comprised. In Sudamérica the crisis with the Covid-19 has sharpened in the last months, reason by which Colombia and Argentina left to be the headquarters of the Glass America. In Brazil the crisis is even more worrisome, since it is one of the countries that worse are happening it in the actuality, with more than half million of died to consequence of the virus and waiting for a new wave of contagions.

The players, against

In this opportunity, the footballers have heaved the voice and have had an important paper to speak by those that can not do it, conscious in his 'privilege' that are not the conditions given to carry out a tournament of such magnitude in Brazil. Casemiro, captain of the 'canarinha', spoke in representation of his mates: "we Want to speak and express our opinion. All the world knows which is our position, all the world knows it. Clearer, impossible. Tite Already left it clear. Infelizmente, do not go to speak of the subject until after the party against Paraguay".

Like this then , it expects that the Wednesday, after it finalise the double date of the eliminatory for the World-wide of 2022, the captains of the 10 selections sudamericanas publish a pronouncement in group regarding his position with the Glass America, to five days of the beginning of the tournament.