Serie A with Premier and Liga: wall against wall with FIFA on national team matches

It was expected, it has arrived. After the Premier League and La Liga, Lega Serie A also takes a stand on the stop for the national teams in September 2021, opposed by clubs afraid of losing their players for a long period, due to travel to countries belonging to red zones for the infection from Covid-19. “The Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A announces that – reads the press release issued the same day – it will support the decision of its clubs in every venue not to release the players called up by the national teams to play in countries whose return to Italy is expected to return to Italy. fiduciary isolation in compliance with the provisions of the law in force regarding the Sars-Cov-2 virus “. A strong position shared by the powerful of European football, with FIFA diplomacy already at work: Gianni Infantino has in fact asked the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to lift the restrictions on quarantine to allow players to travel to countries at risk. Difficult to arrive at a solution of this type, the wall against wall (moreover the leagues have recalled the indications of the same FIFA on the subject) seems really around the corner.

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