A player and a member of the medical staff are asymptomatic, another five players from the Bolívar club tested positive and will not join the Green for the time being.
The Bolivian National Team, that began the concentration with a view to the next dates of the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, reported this Sunday two COVID-19 infections on your payroll.
The infected are soccer player Alexis Ribera and a member of the medical staff de la Verde, the Bolivian Football Federation specified in a press release.
Both of them “They are asymptomatic and began with the corresponding medical treatment”, adds the note from the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF).
Ribera, who militates in the Oil East, was included at the last moment in the call of the Bolivian coach, the Venezuelan César Farías, to face Venezuela and Chile in the next dates of the qualifiers and a previous friendly with Trinidad and Tobago.
Eight of the 27 players called by Farías are already in the concentration in La Paz, while The Strongest reported that its four summoned footballers will join in the next few hours.
The FBF specified that the international Luis Haquin and Marcelo Martins Moreno, the top scorer in the South American qualifying round, They will be added on Monday.
In addition to Ribera, the club Bolívar de La Paz reported earlier that five of his eight players summoned to the selection tested positive for COVID-19 and the three others have already joined to concentration.
Soccer players are “asymptomatic”, are under the supervision of the club’s medical staff and they will join the national team squad “once the results are negative”, indicates the statement.
The note indicates that also Tests are carried out on the rest of the sky blue squad that traveled to Colombia to play friendly matches with teams from that country, in preparation for the new local season and the Copa Libertadores.
Bolivia will visit Venezuela on January 28 in the fifteenth day of the qualifiers and will receive Chile in La Paz on February 1 for the sixteenth date.
Although it is eighth in the South American classification, La Verde de Farías does not lose hope of achieving a quota for Qatar 2022 or at least aspire to the playoffs.
The Bolivian team has 15 points, two less than Colombia and Peru and one less than Chile and Uruguay.
Before the knockout matches, the Green will face on January 21 their similar from Trinidad and Tobago in a friendly in Sucre, the Bolivian constitutional capital. (D)
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