The call of Jair Bolsonaro and the role of Daniel Scioli in the face of the confusion on the Brazil-Argentina court

09/05/2021 18:32

• Clarín.com

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Updated 09/05/2021 18:40

The scandalous classic between Brazil and Argentina for the South American Qualifiers reached the high spheres of politics in both countries.

Jair Bolsonaro

personally intervened

amid the confusion and tried, unsuccessfully, to have the match resumed.

Meanwhile, Ambassador Daniel Scioli accompanied the Argentine squad and intervened before the local attempt to

carve minutes for the players

.

Barely five minutes of play had elapsed at the San Pablo stadium.

After rumors and reports, officials from a Brazilian health organization took to the field to notify that four Albiceleste players who play in the Premier League could not take part in the match.

The explanation from Anvisa -the local health entity- was that Emiliano Martínez, Cristian Romero, Gio Lo Celso and Emiliano Buendía had to serve a quarantine after entering Brazil, a measure that affects those who arrive from the United Kingdom.

The Argentine squad - which before the match had been supported by Conmebol

- retired to the locker room

, in an image that traveled the world and that will remain in the memory.

An image that was also

closely followed by Jair Bolsonaro

.

Lionel Messi and Lionel Scaloni discuss with local representatives after the interruption of Brazil-Argentina.

AP Photo

Stunned by what he saw, the president of Brazil personally communicated with the Brazilian Football Confederation.

According to diplomatic sources informed

Clarín

, he sought to guarantee that Argentine players would not have problems.

Thus, he tried to resume the action on the pitch.

However,

his call

came when the Argentine players were already in the dressing rooms,

with the match suspended

, and communication was not successful.

Who was far from the conciliatory tone of the president was his own son.

Flavio Bolsonaro

, a senator from Rio de Janeiro, fired with thick ammunition against the Argentine National Team.

Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the president of Brazil, very hard with Argentina after the qualifying match.

"The Argentines

played tricks

. They knew they were breaking Brazilian law, they prevented Anvisa from noticing them and, by force, they included the 4 [players] from England," said Flavio Bolsonaro.

In addition, he demanded harsh sanctions against the national team led by Lionel Scaloni.

"The Federal Police have to investigate who did not take measures before the game and Argentina should

be severely punished,

" concluded the president's son, far from his father's attempt to avoid the role.

Minutes later, he was once again acid on the Brazil-Argentina rivalry.

"Pele is bigger than Maradona!

Brazil five times world champion!", He replied to an Argentine fan on the social network.

Scioli's intervention

Not only the Brazilian government intervened in the scandal.

So did the Argentine administration, through the ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, who in the previous one had portrayed himself on the rostrum, with the playing field in the background.

Daniel Scioli, in the preview of the scandal in the match between Brazil and Argentina.

The former Buenos Aires governor, who had shown himself in his networks present in the stadium, went down to the changing rooms when he found out that they were

preparing minutes for the players

of the national team.

From the Casa Rosada they analyze how the situation continues in the São Paulo stadium Neo Química Arena.

Scioli also accompanies the delegation to the airport, to make sure that there are no new problems in the departure of the players.

Florencia Carignano spoke about the scandal in the Brazil-Argentina match for the Qualifiers.

He was not the only person in the Argentine government who manifested himself at times of greatest tension.

So did

Florencia Carignano,

National Director of

Migrations.

"All the people who enter a country, including soccer players, when presenting their passport to the immigration authorities, they have the tools to trace their origin," the official said on her Twitter account.

In that social network, he held the Brazilian authorities responsible and

sowed doubts

about an alleged "staging" orchestrated by local officials.

Florencia Carignano, National Director of Migration, spoke about Brazil-Argentina.

Photo Andres D'Elia

"If Brazil considered the country where the Argentine players came from as a risk zone, beyond the protocol established by FIFA, it could have acted at the time of entry into its territory," added Carignano.

And he closed, unceremoniously: "Waiting three days and getting on the playing field suspending a game

seems more like a staging than a sanitary measure."

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