South America asks FIFA to delay World Cup qualifiers because of virus
South America's football federations asked FIFA on Wednesday to delay their qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of the global new coronavirus pandemic.
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 18, 2019 Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi talks with Uruguay’s forward Luis Suarez during the friendly football match between Argentina and Uruguay at the Bloomfield stadium in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. – South America’s football federations asked FIFA on March 11, 2020, to delay their qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of the global new coronavirus pandemic. “The South American teams risk not being able to count on players they have picked and who play in Europe because they, arriving from countries with a high level of contagion, could be placed in quarantine,” said a letter from CONMEBOL, South American football’s governing body, to FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)
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