Rival Vasco, Caracas waits 10 hours at the airport for authorization to enter Brazil | international soccer

With the delay, Caracas should arrive in Rio de Janeiro at 5 am this Tuesday. The match against Vasco is this Wednesday, at 9:30 pm (from Brasília), in São Januário. The team faced Zamora and won 1-0 last Sunday, in Barinas, in the Venezuelan field, for the local league.

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In the club’s social networks there is evidence of the departure of the delegation from the city, which is 418 kilometers from Caracas. (look up). The trip would continue from the Venezuelan capital, but the club could not take off.

Two people from Caracas, who declined to be identified, told the give that the Brazilian aeronautical authorities had not authorized the trip. The National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) reported that the problem was with the Estelar Airlines, company that will make the team trip.

According to the agency, an aircraft with more than 30 seats requires a flight authorization to operate in Brazil. The company only shipped the order on Monday, delaying the process. According to the give found out, the authorization would have come only after the intervention of Conmebol.

THE give He also heard from the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) about a possible relationship with the coronavirus pandemic, but the agency stated that it has no jurisdiction to legislate in another country and prevent a flight from taking off abroad.

The experienced Caracas midfielder Ricardo Andreutti posted a record of the first hours of the delay on social media. Answered questions from give and insisted that the problem is recurrent in the country, which suffers serious financial and political crisis a few years ago.

– It is a situation that is repeated and is repeated in the country. What can you say about the reason? It is something that Venezuelans suffer, inoperability, incapacity. All processing that should be normal is not. Not even for a player. This type of situation is what makes the dynamics of a normal country not flow as it should – Andreutti commented.

At the beginning of last year Andreutti led a movement in Venezuelan soccer in the face of poor sports conditions caused by the crisis in the country. Moments before takeoff, the steering wheel went back to using social media and recorded the moment (look up).

Caracas makes its South American debut against Vasco after finishing third in Group H of the Liberators. Boca Juniors led the table with 14 points. Libertad came in second place, with the same seven points as the Venezuelan team, but better goal difference.