Is the Copa America suspended?

On Wednesday night, Alberto Fernández, president of Argentina, announced a series of restrictions in the next two weeks. The contagion curve is on the rise in that country and the concern is permanent, so they seek that cases stop firing from a series of measures that generated opinions for all tastes (especially the impossibility of continuing with face-to-face classes ). Although the press conference was brief, a few hours later he reappeared on the scene to take up other topics that arouse some fear.

And one of them is "football": the President is aware of the cases in all the campuses of Argentina, so he doesnot rule out a stop. To top it off, the America's Cup appears around the corner. It's played? "I don't want to frustrate the spectacle of the Copa América, but I want us to be very sensible. We have some time ahead to analyze," began his account in dialogue with Radio 10.

Alberto Fernández raised it two days after Alejandro Domínguez, Conmebol's top figure, assured in dialogue with ESPN F12 that the contest "isn't in danger, at least from us". "The Copa América goes with or without an audience," he said. We will try to achieve this and on that we depend and are respectful of the health policy of each of the two countries, but the intention discussed with Minister Lammens and also with Minister Lucena of Colombian sports is that we have at least 30% of the stadiums With public".

"Leaving Argentina, going to play in places where contagion is important ... If it is done, all the care will have to be taken", the president warned. Without leaving Argentina, "the teams are having a high level of contagion, leaving Argentina everything could be worse”. He made a comparison in relation to the reports of contagions from Argentine clubs: “They're plants that have not left Argentina and the infections are repeated. That is nothing other than being the product of a society where infections increase ”.

“The sports authorities have to act very carefully. What is happening in the Argentine soccer teams is a sample of what can happen when we leave Argentina to play in countries where the problem is even more acute", he said in an interview with journalist Gustavo Sylvestre on Radio 10, in the one that exhibited his concern about the amount of positive swabs and outbreaks in the internal bubbles that Argentine clubs report practically every day.