🚨🗣️ Uzbekistan manager Fabio Cannavaro: "I saw photographs on the front pages of the newspapers showing the searches we were subjected to at the airport, as members of the Uzbek national team. I've also seen misleading headlines, so I'd like to set the record straight. These were routine, standard checks."
"People don't realise one thing: when World Cup national teams travel, they don't go through the airport terminals like ordinary travellers, but are taken directly to the tarmac in buses reserved for the teams."
"The checks that ordinary travellers undergo in the terminal, we undergo directly on the tarmac. Exactly the same ones. It's standard procedure."
"So there's no scandal. No undignified or disrespectful treatment. The same applies to the matches. Before the friendly against the Netherlands, we were screened at the stadium, and this too was expected: before every match, teams undergo screening either at the hotel just before setting off (as happened with the Netherlands) or directly at the stadium, as happened to us."
"The truth is that we found the organisation to be flawless."
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