The South American World Cup qualifiers scheduled for later this month have been cancelled after a number of Premier League teams said they would refuse to allow their players to travel.
Some countries in the continent are red listed as coronavirus hot-spots. And players could have to quarantine upon arrival back in the UK and thus potentially miss games for their clubs.
As a result of this some managers insisted they would do everything in their power to prevent members of their squad from participating.
And following this pressure the matches which were due to be played at the end of this month in South America are to be rescheduled.
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