Last night’s game between Brazil and Argentina was eventually abandoned as Health Officials and Federal Police went to the extraordinary length of ‘storming’ the pitch in order to charge 4 Argentinian players with falsifying information upon entering the country.
Early suggestions are that the players – who include Tottenham’s Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero – could in theory be made to serve 14 days quarantine in Brazil, followed by a further 10 days in a government approved hotel. This means that theoretically we could be without the bold travellers for over a month, if one were to add time required to get fit again…