The Ministry of Health will evaluate whether Boca broke the bubble due to the incidents in Belo Horizonte

07/21/2021 9:15

• Clarín.com

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Updated 07/21/2021 9:57 AM

The Ministry of Health assesses this Wednesday morning if the Boca Juniors delegation broke the health bubble due to the incidents in Belo Horizonte after the elimination of the Copa Libertadores against Atlético Mineiro to determine if they must comply with isolation once enter the country.

It was the head of the health portfolio, Carla Vizzotti, who said that she had conversations with the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens, and hopes to receive more information to make a decision.

"We are asking for information on the situation to

evaluate the risk and make a definition

. It is an extraordinary situation and when we evaluate the situation and the risk, which of course we evaluated since yesterday and we were talking with (Matías) Lammens, we will make a decision," he said. Vizzotti.

The footballers, the coaching staff and the leaders of Boca

still remain in Belo Horizonte and plan to return to the country in the afternoon. 

Speaking to radio

La Red

, Vizzotti warned that if they had "contact outside of what was stipulated" in the approved health bubble, they should comply with the isolation, but insisted that as it is an "exceptional situation" they expect more information.

"We have to evaluate exactly how the whole situation has been

, we also need to receive formal training so we are going to take the morning," he added.

If the Boca delegation must perform isolation,

the AFA must decide whether to postpone Saturday's game against Banfield

, for the second date of the local contest.

The Ministry of Health allows the delegations of the clubs that enter and leave the country to participate in the international tournaments organized by Conmebol do not comply with the isolation days stipulated in the presidential DNU because they remain within the framework of a bubble sanitary.

However, the images of the clashes with the Brazilian police at the Mineirao stadium after the match and the subsequent transfer to a police station, where the eight defendants stayed for several hours, show that the bubble was broken.

The Argentine team delegation spent a good part of the morning in a police station near the stadium.

There they had to go to declare as accused Fernando Gayoso (goalkeeper coach), Leandro Somoza (field assistant), Carlos Izquierdoz, Raúl Cascini (Boca Soccer Council), Marcos Rojo, Sebastián Villa, Carlos Zambrano and Javier García.

In this way, the Boca delegation did not arrive at their plane before 2 a.m. local time, when the Belo Horizonte airport closed, so the Argentine club had to reschedule the charter for this Wednesday afternoon.

After the incidents, the ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, issued a statement in which he pointed out that the incidents had barely begun, he asked the Argentine consul in Belo Horizonte, Santiago Muñoz, "to make himself available to the Boca delegation to collaborate with legal and consular assistance ".

He also stated that "the consular assistance and accompaniment to the club's delegation was carried out, after the meeting, before a police delegation" and announced that "all team members are expected to return to the country in the afternoon."

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