Marcelo could miss the second leg of Actual Madrid’s Champions League semi-final towards Chelsea as he has been chosen to serve at a polling station the day earlier than the match.
Elections to the Madrid Meeting will happen on Tuesday, Might 4, with Los Blanco’s European fixture 24 hours later. Marcelo’s teammates are on their approach to London on Tuesday however he wouldn’t have the opportunity to if he shouldn’t be excused for his polling stations.
Marcelo fought in the primary stage | Angel Martinez / Getty Pictures
In response to El Mundo, the election board has claimed that Marcelo may journey on the morning of the sport. Nevertheless, this will likely not be allowed as a consequence of coronavirus guidelines. Actual and the participant’s representatives are mentioned to barter however no settlement has been reached but and depart the left again in limbo.
The battle is the most recent in a irritating season for Marcelo. A sequence of muscle accidents have restricted him to only 16 matches in all competitions and he solely began the primary stage as a consequence of Ferland Mendy’s damage.
The draw for the polling station was held in early April, the place the elected had been given seven days to justify being launched from service. That interval has now handed, which implies {that a} separate settlement should be reached.
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The clause that may get Marcelo out of jail says that one may be excused in the event that they are knowledgeable “who should attend public occasions to be held on voting day, which is deliberate earlier than the election assembly, when the social gathering involved cannot get replaced and that the identical forces don’t participated in suspending the incident, inflicting important monetary injury. “
Though Marcelo’s case doesn’t match precisely these parameters, there are precedents for a soccer participant to be launched from obligatory election. In November 2019, Levante goalkeeper Aitor Fernandez was launched from the put up after two appeals from the membership.
