Congo’s soccer team have been told to isolate for 21 days or risk being denied entry to the US for this summer’s World Cup amid an Ebola virus outbreak in the country.
Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House Task Force for the World Cup, revealed to ESPN on Friday that the US has told FIFA, the Congolese national team and its government that any members of the squad must maintain a bubble in Belgium, where they are currently training ahead of two warmup games.
Congo were recently forced to cancel a pre-World Cup training camp in their capital city,
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