Foreign player rule may limit São Paulo options, find out why | OneFootball

São Paulo may face restrictions when listing players for the Brazilian Championship games. The competition's rule allows only nine non-Brazilian athletes to be listed per match, which means that if all are available, Hernán Crespo will have to leave one out of the list.

Currently, the tricolor squad has ten foreign players: among the defenders are Cédric Soares, Enzo Díaz, Arboleda, Ferraresi, and Alan Franco; in midfield, Bobadilla; and in attack, Calleri, Tapia, Dinenno, and Rigoni.

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It is worth noting that Rafael Tolói was born in Brazil and has Brazilian nationality by birth. Despite having naturalized Italian to play for the Italian national team, the defender does not count towards the foreign quota of the Brasileirão, being considered a native Brazilian for the purposes of the competition.

The rule continues to require strategic attention from Crespo, even though, at this moment, he does not need to leave any foreigner out of the list due to injuries, such as Calleri, who only returns next season.

Even so, when he has a full squad, the coach will have to carefully plan who will be listed in each round of the Brasileirão, especially in a decisive period of the season and with important commitments. Unlike the national tournament, the Libertadores does not impose a limit on foreign players, allowing the entire squad to be used.

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