Guardiola called CBF's decision to ban players 'crazy'
The Spanish coach believes that a strange decision has been made about the Brazilian stars of the Premier League.
boss Pep Guardiola believes the Brazilian federation's decision to ban Ederson was crazy.
The Brazilian federation has decided, through FIFA, to ban players whose clubs have prevene them from traveling to World Cup qualifiers for one match. FIFA also agreed to the Brazilian federation's request and suspended several players, including Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson, from the next match. Now Guardiola called the decision of the Brazilian federation crazy.
He told reporters: "Right now it still isn't clear, hopefully they can play, we will wait and see tomorrow if there is some good news. The club didn't inform me of anything. So we are going to wait and see if they can play or not.
"I don't understand the situation for the fact that I don't know what we can do. It's an honour for us that our players go and play for the countries where they are born. It's no problem at all.
"It's difficult to justify for me that the Argentina players who play in the Premier League, they go to Brazil and they were not allowed to play, and the Brazilian players who should have travelled to play this game would have been completely the same.
"So if they travelled there, they wouldn't have been able to play because of the quarantine there. If they do it so they [fly to Brazil] but cannot play in Brazil and after when they came back they could not play here for 10 days. And if they don't fly, then after they are suspended for five days because they were here. So it makes no sense.
"Argentina travelled with some players, the police were on the pitch, and they could not play the game because they didn't follow the protocol.
"So it would have happened with the Brazil players. And after the federation from Brazil asked FIFA to ban these players that cannot travel to play with them, but they could not play there, and now they could not play here? It's crazy."
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