LUCERNA, Switzerland (AP) – The Ukrainian League of Nations match against Switzerland cancelled hours before Tuesday’s scheduled start after six of its players tested positive for COVID-19.
The Ukrainian football federation said in a statement that the attack may not take place after fitness officers in the Swiss canton (state) of Lucerne quarantined their entire team.
Six Ukrainian players and one member tested positive for COVID-19 in Switzerland as a component of the mandatory pre-MATCH evaluation.
“The Ukrainian Football Association has shown that it has no other team, i. e. eligible players, able to bet the match or tomorrow,” UEFA said Tuesday.
UEFA refers cancelled matches to its disciplinary panel for a verdict and would possibly order Ukraine to leave the game under the festival’s emergency regulations for the coronavirus pandemic.
This regulation requires national groups to play if they have thirteen eligible players, adding a specialized goalkeeper, who are not quarantined and have tested negative.
This is the time for the cancellation of the League of Nations in the existing foreign truce due to public restrictions on the pandemic. Norway was unable to send a team to Romania on Sunday.
Tuesday’s adjustment was to know which of Switzerland or Ukraine would be retracted to the League of Nations moment category in an organization that also includes Germany and Spain.
Officials from the Ukrainian team had reported that two of the six players in question were allowed to play through UEFA. The federation said Sergei Kryvtsov and Junior Moraes had antibodies after testing positive for COVID-19 while serving in the Champions League with Shakhtar Donetsk.
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