The General Pablo Rojas stadium, known as La Nueva Olla, was inaugurated in 1970 and reopened in 2017 with a capacity for 45,000 people.
The Paraguayan Football Association (APF) only enabled 50% of the capacity of the General Pablo Rojas stadium, known as La Nueva Olla, in Asunción, where it will play its next game on January 27 for the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup against Uruguay .
According to the information provided by the APF, the “current health situation” due to the increase in COVID-19 cases following the identification of the omicron variant It has led the authorities to reduce the number of entrances to the Cerro Porteño stadium.
The seats were put on sale this Tuesday under the requirement that only “fans who have the complete vaccination scheme and carry the Green Card of the Safe Fan” will be able to enter the stadium, according to the APF statement.
In this way, the entity rector of Paraguayan soccer “joins the vaccination campaign” of the national authorities and, in addition to the justification of immunization, requests “to wear a mask permanently”.
Paraguay had announced on December 21 the transfer of its traditional stage, Defensores del Chaco, to a stadium with greater capacity for the fifteenth round of the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The stadium General Pablo Rojas, known as La Nueva Olla, was inaugurated in 1970 and reopened in 2017 with a capacity for 45,000 people.
The duel between Paraguay and Uruguay will be full of tension, since both teams need the points to stay alive in the fight for a place in Qatar.
For La Celeste, it will have the extra incentive of being the debut of Diego Alonso on the bench as a substitute for Óscar Washington Tabárez After almost 16 years of the ‘Maestro’ as coach and it will be precisely in the same country where he played his first game as an international player, in 1999.
With four days remaining, Uruguay occupies seventh place in the standings with 16 points, the same as Chile -which is sixth for having a better goal balance-.
Paraguay, for its part, is ninth with 13 integers, six more than the last classified.
The South American qualifiers are led by Brazil, with 35 points. Argentina follows with 29. Both teams have a game pending but a guaranteed presence in the Qatar World Cup.
Ecuador accumulates 23 integers, Colombia 17 (with a goal balance of minus 1) and Peru also 17 (with a goal balance of minus five). (D)
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