RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Rio de Janeiro state championship restarted once again on Sunday as Botafogo -- one of the clubs opposed to what they see as a premature resumption of top-level football -- took the field with a banner protesting the decision.
The move to get back underway in Rio has focused attention on the wider confusion surrounding football's stop-start status in the South American nation.
Before beating Cabofriense 6-2, the Rio side’s players also took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, whose motto they wore on their shirts. The club’s marquee signing, Japanese forward Keisuke Honda, asked on June 17, a day after 1,282 people were reported dead from coronavirus in Brazil, “Am I crazy that I want to know a logical reason why we restart the league?"
However, some clubs only tested their players for COVID-19 after they restarted training. At Corinthians, eight members of the first-team squad tested positive on returning from their enforced break.
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