World Soccer

A new set of problems

The continent that brought us love in the time of cholera has been ploughing ahead with football in the time of coronavirus.

The pandemic has posed serious problems for South America. Indeed, the presidents of the Bolivian and Venezuelan FAs lost their lives to COVID-19. The virus has proved hard to bring under control. In early September, South America contained all of the top five in the ranking of coronavirus deaths per population size over the previous

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