Villa Players on International Duty - Covid impacts

[john e]

Does anybody know actually what is happening with the Emis and where we're now expecting them back?

According to AVFC Brasil they're on the way back to Europe. https://twitter.com/AstonVillabrfc/status/1434851004017750016

Original source is an Argentinian paper. https://twitter.com/DiarioOle/status/1434853639844253703

They're not playing against Bolivia and and returning via Madrid.

More Air miles than Judith Chalmers

[Brazilian Villain]

According to AVFC Brasil they're on the way back to Europe. https://twitter.com/AstonVillabrfc/status/1434851004017750016

Original source is an Argentinian paper. https://twitter.com/DiarioOle/status/1434853639844253703

They're not playing against Bolivia and and returning via Madrid.

More Air miles than Judith Chalmers

The players or me?

[BC54 VFC]

Does anybody know actually what is happening with the Emis and where we're now expecting them back?

The two Emi's were on the Argentinian team aircraft - Aerolineas Argentinas A330 - which left Sao Paulo at 01.36hrs UK time today and landed in Buenos Aires at 04.22hrs (UK).

They are then taking a scheduled service, being Air Europa to Madrid 787 - which is scheduled to depart Buenos Aires at 16.10hrs (UK) That aircraft is already on the ground so should leave close to time (very few flights around that time). It is an 11+ hour flight which is scheduled to land in Madrid tomorrow morning at 04.10hrs (UK).

The first flight from Madrid to Croatia tomorrow is an Iberia Airlines flight to Dubrovnik, A320, leaving at 06.45hrs (UK), which is scheduled to land at 09.35hrs (UK).

If they are then isolating for 10 days then they're only going to land back in the UK just in advance of the Everton home game!

[Sexual Ealing]

Eeeeaaastie?

[Risso]

Does anybody know actually what is happening with the Emis and where we're now expecting them back?

The two Emi's were on the Argentinian team aircraft - Aerolineas Argentinas A330 - which left Sao Paulo at 01.36hrs UK time today and landed in Buenos Aires at 04.22hrs (UK).

They are then taking a scheduled service, being Air Europa to Madrid 787 - which is scheduled to depart Buenos Aires at 16.10hrs (UK) That aircraft is already on the ground so should leave close to time (very few flights around that time). It is an 11+ hour flight which is scheduled to land in Madrid tomorrow morning at 04.10hrs (UK).

The first flight from Madrid to Croatia tomorrow is an Iberia Airlines flight to Dubrovnik, A320, leaving at 06.45hrs (UK), which is scheduled to land at 09.35hrs (UK).

If they are then isolating for 10 days then they're only going to land back in the UK just in advance of the Everton home game!

Good info. I thought that they'd get into Croatia tomorrow, which means they can't fly back into the UK until the day of the Everton game.

[Edvard Remberg]

Does anybody know actually what is happening with the Emis and where we're now expecting them back?

The two Emi's were on the Argentinian team aircraft - Aerolineas Argentinas A330 - which left Sao Paulo at 01.36hrs UK time today and landed in Buenos Aires at 04.22hrs (UK).

They are then taking a scheduled service, being Air Europa to Madrid 787 - which is scheduled to depart Buenos Aires at 16.10hrs (UK) That aircraft is already on the ground so should leave close to time (very few flights around that time). It is an 11+ hour flight which is scheduled to land in Madrid tomorrow morning at 04.10hrs (UK).

The first flight from Madrid to Croatia tomorrow is an Iberia Airlines flight to Dubrovnik, A320, leaving at 06.45hrs (UK), which is scheduled to land at 09.35hrs (UK).

If they are then isolating for 10 days then they're only going to land back in the UK just in advance of the Everton home game!

Good info. I thought that they'd get into Croatia tomorrow, which means they can't fly back into the UK until the day of the Everton game.

When does the 10 day counting start? Surely from leaving Argentina rather than arrival in Croatia?

[Lastfootstamper]

It's full days in quarantine, not periods of 24 hours since escaping from wherever. And I assume the count will start Wednesday as day 1. Day 10 will be Friday, free to fly back Saturday.

[Skerra]

From what I’ve read, it seemed pretty pointless in Buendia going at all. I’m still really annoyed that our players were jetted out without knowing if the match in Brazil would go ahead. What a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s hope the arrangements are in place correctly for the next set of matches. If there’s any blame to be apportioned, it lays squarely with the players.

[Toronto Villa]

The whole thing is utterly ludicrous. You have fans in packed stadiums hugging and celebrating with one another having interacted with vaccinated and unvaccinated people all around them before coming to games. Players as much as they want to be careful, and I realize that can vary, they are human too and live lives outside of sport. And yet despite that there are these rules in place that are different from country to country, region to region that require quarantine rules and isolation periods. I’m all for safety, and vaccines, and doing all we can to get through this but the inconsistencies are what piss people off the most.

[KevinGage]

Lionel Messi could probably refuse a game or two for Argentina, should the situation require it. Safe in the knowledge he'll be back in the team later.

Martinez and Buendia are still building their reputation with the national side.  Neither would be guaranteed first picks at this stage (though Martinez must be close to that now).   So they can't really say no when their country asks - especially when one of those games is against the old enemy.

The scenes yesterday were pure theatre - and humiliating for Argentina. So it's either a monumental phuck up by someone at the AFA.  Or -as someone mentioned earlier on this thread - deiberate mixed messages from the Brazilian authorities to leave them in the shit.

If the knock on effect is Brazil end up playing a weakened Argentina = even better for them.

[Percy McCarthy]

Tim Vickery trying to explain everything on SSN with Mr Cool’s Dream, Ian Mum’s definitive Style Council history, on the shelf behind him. I knew he was a clever bloke with impeccable taste.

As you were.

[brontebilly]

If both players are vaccinated then I'm struggling to see what the issue is with them returning to play for us. The Brazil police stunt was just that, utterly shameless.

[sirlordbaltimore]

If both players are vaccinated then I'm struggling to see what the issue is with them returning to play for us

You not been following the news for the last 18 months ?

[BC Villain]

Matt Law has tweeted that Martinez has said that Villa did not know the quarantine rules for Brazil.....

[UK Redsox]

Tim Vickery trying to explain everything on SSN with Mr Cool’s Dream, Ian Mum’s definitive Style Council history, on the shelf behind him. I knew he was a clever bloke with impeccable taste.

As you were.

If that was the same interview of which I just caught part, he wasn’t sure that the Emis had left Argentina