Clubs will not have to yield players to their national teams until January 3
FIFA and the African Football Confederation have announced that the players called up for the Africa Cup will delay their date of joining their respective teams and the clubs will not have to relinquish them until 3 January. Great news for the coaches of these clubs. Among them Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea) Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool), who will be able to count on their African stars for Chelsea-Liverpool on January 2.
This means that in many cases these players will be able to play one more game with their respective teams, which due to the dates of this tournament are left without their players in the middle of the season.
FIFA regulations dictate that before a World Cup or a continental tournament, players must join their teams 14 days before the start of the championship, but an exception will be made-
The Africa Cup 2021, which should have been held last summer in Cameroon, was rescheduled from January 9 to February 6, 2022 at the same venue, although the wave of infections due to the omicron variant of covid-19 had once again questioned its celebration ..
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