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A veritable top-level controversy has become the coming of Erick Thumb to Chilean team for the duels against Peru and Venezuela for the South American qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup 2022.
It is that the Chilean midfielder of the Fiorentina He traveled from Italy to Chile in contravention of the recommendation of the local health authority (ASL) of Tuscany, which prevented the participation of foreign players from the viola squad in the World Cup competition.
The same decision was made by four other players from the Italian team. In addition to Pulgar, the Uruguayan Martín Cáceres, the Argentine Lucas Martínez Quarta and the Serbs Nikola Milenkovic and Dusan Vlahovic are included, all required for the November FIFA date.
As the Italian team reported to RedGol, “the club informed the players of the ASL’s refusal,” but “Serbs and South Americans have decided to leave anyway. The players themselves are responsible and may receive sanctions provided by the authorities.”
The ASL’s decision is framed in the massive outbreak of coronavirus that Italy has suffered during this month, which would even lead to closing the borders again to stop the rise in infections.
Fiorentina announced the positive for covid-19 of the player José María Callejón, so his teammates were initially in isolation, but later it was known that there were no new infections via PCR tests.
Erick Pulgar traveled to Chile in absentia amid the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy. Photo: Fiorentina
In this scenario is Pulgar, who already suffered coronavirus two months ago and decided to travel to Chile despite the ASL dictating otherwise, so a subsequent sanction for the national teams is not ruled out.
The Antofagasta midfielder is expected to report today to the work of the Chilean team to face Peru and Venezuela on November 13 and 17 in Santiago and Caracas respectively.
The player had already missed the first two games due to not being discharged from his illness, but in recent weeks he had officially returned to play at La Fiore and confirmed his recovered condition.
Pulgar added 90 minutes in the last two Fiorentina games, for the Italian league and the Italian Cup, and completed five official matches this season.
