ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Sep Blatter, head of Fifa, the international football federation, will step in and talk to Canadian officials in the case of three football players who went AWOL in Toronto over the weekend, he told journalists at a press conference in Geneva.
This is the second defection to Canada of Cuban footballers this year, according to AP: The players disappeared nine months after two players with the Cuba women’s team fled to the United States following a match against Canada in Vancouver.
Cuba lost 3-0 to Canada in their match Friday 12 October in Toronto, with Cuba missing four players for the World Cup qualifying match. One was sick and the other three went missing, reported The Globe & Mail.
