UEFA suspends Romania-Norway
The UEFA suspended the Romania-Norway. Although we have to live with her, the coronavirus crisis is still with us. Also in the world of football. Thus, UEFA decided to cancel the match that Romanians and Norwegians were supposed to play on Romanian soil due to the positive (once again, asymptomatic) from Omar Elabdellaoui.
The Norwegian government bans your team from traveling
Therefore and following the protocol established by the Norwegian health authorities, which implies that a positive, have any symptoms or not, have to save 10 quarantine days, has banned the travel of his national team to Romania, for which UEFA has been forced to suspend the match.
The Norwegian players were already on board the plane that was going to take them to the meeting place when the authorities decided to take them off the device. Something that some of the members of the expedition did not like.
The Norwegian captains issued a statement
The group of captains formed by Stefan Johansen, Joshua King Y Martin Odegaard have made the following statement:
“The entire group of players is deeply desperate because the Norwegian authorities refuse to travel to the two decisive matches of the Nations League against Romania and Austria. We were at Gardermoen, the plane was loaded and was going to take off in an hour when the message went out. We have complied with strict UEFA protocol at the meeting. These are tests of coronavirus before traveling to Norway and, after our arrival, they have done another five tests. After knowing the case of infection, all players and support staff tested negative twice” the Norwegian captains sentenced in the statement.
