Brazil is strict with the game against Argentina, making a fool of themselves

It was the reissue of the final of the last Copa América. Brazil-Argentina is always a game that attracts all eyes. Messi and Neymar, now teammates at PSG, faced each other. The game started but barely five minutes were played. After a Neymar foul on Paredes, several people entered the field of play on the wing and the match stopped.

They were judicial agents who had the task of taking some Argentine internationals for health reasons. Four footballers from the Albiceleste play in the English Premier League and, according to the country's regulations, by covid protocol they must pass a quarantine.

The Brazilian government, chaired by Jair Bolsonaro, decided to wait until the match was started to hit the table and enter the stadium to take away the four players who had violated the law with their entry into the country. The intention is to deport them. Not in the previous training or in the warm-up at the Corinthians Arena, in São Paulo, but with the duel already started. The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) interrupted after the initial whistle and stopped the duel.

It happens Conmebol, a union of South American federations, had reached an agreement with the Brazilian Confederation to allow Argentine footballers to participate in the meeting. Even Conmebol, organizer of the qualification for the World Cup, made it clear that any impediment to it being played would imply a loss of points for Brazil, as a local team.