South American qualifiers: Europe showed its teeth again

The most powerful leagues in Europe and their no less powerful club-state and club-company they tried to bring South American football back to its knees. They did everything possible to prevent their stars from participating in the triple playoff date. In the challenge, they even tried to step over the FIFA. But they could not. The firmness of the players in defense of their rights to integrate their national teams and the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS) rejecting the appeal filed by the Spanish league made it possible for the three scheduled days to finally be disputed in a timely manner. Although the uncertainty has only cleared up this weekend.

In March, Europe had done the same and the operation was successful: President Gianni Infantino did not want to engage in negotiations with the leagues and clubs, and FIFA then had no choice but to suspend the matches in that window on the grounds that the pandemic was progressing. As for the June window and for the Copa América the dispute for the championships and the continental cups had already ended, there were no problems in letting the players come.

But with the return of activity in the “Old Continent”, the leagues and clubs (with England and Spain in the first line of opposition) once again showed the edge of their teeth. And although they could not retain all of the players, they managed to prevent Brazil from calling up the nine participating in the Premier League and for Uruguay to not mention Edinson Cavani, currently at Manchester United. They had no luck with Argentina. Lionel Scaloni will have the entire squad that called for the games with Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia. In a commendable show of commitment and belonging, none of the footballers rejected the summons. All said present.

Buendía, Romero, Lo Celso and Martínez did not surrender to the Premier and traveled to Venezuela. (Instagram)

It is clear that the current format of the South American Qualifiers established in 1996 (actually a single-wheel championship of 18 dates that takes place over the course of two and a half years) It bothers the very rich and powerful European teams and the leagues that make them up. And that these and these feel strong enough to challenge FIFA itself (and to a much lesser extent Conmebol) and impose its crude market rules on them. The Qatar World Cup and its qualifying instances are not a business from which they can profit. What’s more: they understand that FIFA and the national associations make this happen by using players that they support with onerous contracts. And they have less and less desire for the multinational soccer company and its adherents do business with money that does not belong to them.

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This evidence should not be lost sight of: Europe’s football is self-perceives so powerful economically and sportingly that he believes he can mark the court for his own FIFA and go against the qualification system to the World Cups. The fight for the summons of the South American players is part of this dynamic and there will be new chapters in this power struggle. At that table where they discuss who really rules the ball world, Conmebol looks at it from the outside: it has no money to sit there.

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