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Foden and Greenwod excluded from English selection for violation of anti-Covid measures

2020-09-07T14:36:54.271Z


The two young internationals were sanctioned for having received the visit of two young women in their hotel room during the trip from England to Iceland.


Coach Gareth Southgate announced on Monday that attacking midfielder Phil Foden and striker Mason Greenwood had been excluded from the English selection which will face Denmark in the Nations League on Tuesday for violating anti-Covid measures.

“Unfortunately, this morning I was told that two boys violated the bubble guidelines (intended to isolate the group to protect them from the novel coronavirus),” Southgate explained at a press conference, of Foden and Greenwood who had their first selection on Saturday.

"We had to decide very quickly that they could not have contact with the rest of the team, that they would not go to training, and they will have to return to England separately."

According to the Icelandic press, after the match won (1-0) on Saturday in Reykjavik, the two Manchester players, Foden at City and Greenwood at United, had received a visit from two Icelanders in the team hotel.

Images of the two players, taken by these young women, had circulated on social networks.

The rules put in place by the British and Icelandic authorities, however, provided that the English delegation would not leave its hotel and would not meet anyone outside the group, except for the match.

"We are still studying the facts, I still have to see the details, but it is sure that there was a violation of the guidelines that we had taken a long time to put in place and that the team had followed to the letter, ”lamented the coach, who stressed that players and staff had been tested four times since the start of the rally.

“From this point of view, we had no other choice” than to send the players home, where they will have to isolate themselves for 14 days.

Southgate, however, assured that the meeting between the two young women and her players had taken place outside the area of ​​the hotel occupied by the team and that "no one else had been in contact with the two players, neither at breakfast, nor during training. "

While calling its players "naive", Southgate denied them the mitigating circumstance of age, 18 and 20.

"I am a father of young adults, I know they sometimes make mistakes," he explained and the two players "have admitted their responsibility and apologized".

But "all age groups have the responsibility not to spread the virus, so we do not take it lightly," he said.

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Source: lefigaro

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