Uruguay player who played the match against Colombia tested positive for coronavirus

The Uruguayan Football Association He announced this Sunday that one of the squad players tested positive for COVID-19, after performing PCR tests, upon arrival in Montevideo. Is about Matías Viña, who started last Friday, in the match in which the ‘charrúa’ team beat Colombia 3-0, in the Metropolitan of Barranquilla.

“Matías Viña is in good health and has already been placed in isolation and quarantine since midnight yesterday, as soon as the situation was known, in strict compliance with the procedure established for these cases”, says the official statement. The rest of the ‘celeste’ payroll yielded negative results and continues with the work ahead of the duel next Tuesday against its similar of Brazil.

The novelty triggers the alarm in the ranks of the Colombia National Team, which is preparing the duel against Ecuador, for the fourth date of the qualifiers, and which has already suffered the consequences of the coronavirus; Rafael Santos Borré is absent in the call due to the virus, after River Plate confirmed its contagion, the previous week.

It took its toll on the first two dates, when the goalkeeper David ospina could not be placed under the orders of the Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz due to the positive cases in his club, the Naples, which forced him to comply with the isolation period, last October. His teammates in the national team, Matheus Uribe and Luis DíazThose games were also lost; the first because he had contact with a person diagnosed with the virus and the second because of the protocols established by the Portuguese authorities and that prevented him from traveling.

His rival on Tuesday was also unable to escape the coronavirus. Three of his players, Enner Valencia, Diego Palacios Y Alan Franco, who entered the 83rd minute of the duel in which the ‘tri’ beat Bolivia 3-2, tested positive and cannot be taken into account by Argentine strategist Gustavo Alfaro.

Colombia will visit Ecuador in the last game of the year and will seek to rebuild the path in the qualifiers, after their defeat against the ‘charrúas’. At the moment, he has a harvest of four points in the standings, the product of a win, a draw and a fall.

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