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Venezuela suffered the victims of goalkeeper José Contreras and midfielder Christian Larotonda from covid-19 and both players came out of the call for clashes against Brazil and Chile of the next double day of South American qualifiers, the local football federation reported. this Saturday.
“Goalkeeper José David Contreras and midfielder Christian Larotonda did not travel, as they tested positive for covid-19 after a PCR test,” the Venezuelan Football Association (FVF) said in a statement released Saturday.
Contreras and Larotonda were part of the chronicle in the call of coach Vinotinto, Portuguese José Peseiro, and respectively defend Táchira and Metropolitanos of Venezuelan professional football.
To these absences we can add that of the striker Sergio Córdova, of the Bundesliga Arminia Bielefeld, who according to the local press has not obtained permission from his club to answer Peseiro’s call.
The other calls from the national championship, Jean Fuentes (La Guaira), Oscar Conde (Puerto Cabello), Anderson Contreras (Caracas) and Cristian Rivas (Mérida) arrived on Saturday in Brazil together with the coaching staff in the first outpost of Venezuela, which on 13 November they will face Canarinha in Sao Paulo for the third round of the South American qualifiers.
Venezuela, the only South American country that has not played an absolute FIFA World Cup, is in ninth place, without points, after two defeats in its presentations against Colombia (3-0) and Paraguay (0-1).
Peseiro said in a video released Friday by FVF that he aspires to score at least one point against Brazil and three against Chile when Vinotinto receives La Roja on the 17th for the fourth round.
But is it easy to do? No Do we want to do it? We want to do it, we have to die at all times in both matches, the luck we didn’t have against Paraguay we can have in Brazil, “he said.
EFE
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