The Brazilian national team, led by coach Tite, announced that Arthur Cabral, the striker of the Swiss team, Basel, will be included in the “Seleção” list during the international break next week, instead of the injured Atletico Madrid striker Mateus Konia.
The 23-year-old Cabral is providing a distinguished performance with Basel this season, as he played 16 games with the Swiss team, during which he scored 20 goals and provided 5 assists.
Cunha, the Brazilian national team striker and Atletico Madrid player, Mateus Konia, was in the camp of his country on Friday due to an injury, to fail to catch up with the matches of Venezuela, Colombia and Uruguay in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar..
Konya, 22, suffers from an injury to the adductor muscle of his left thigh and will not recover during his country’s three matches, according to the Brazilian Football Confederation..
The technical committee of Brazil, the five-time world champion, took the decision to exclude the young striker, who was crowned with Brazil with gold in the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, after studying the results of the tests sent to him by Atletico Madrid..
Brazil is preparing to face Venezuela on the 7th of this month in Caracas, and Colombia will meet three days later in Barranquilla, before hosting Uruguay on the 14th at the Arena de Amazonia in Manaus..
Brazil leads the qualifiers table with eight victories from eight rounds, achieving the full mark, and six points ahead of the table runner-up, Argentina.