DR Congo World Cup preparations will continue as planned despite a US warning that the delegation must isolate for 21 days before arrival, a team official said Saturday.
Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House Task Force for the World Cup, told ESPN that DR Congo risked being denied US entry if it failed to maintain a training bubble in Belgium.
The team is due to base itself in Houston and open Group K against Portugal on June 17. It will then face Colombia in Guadalajara on June 23 and Uzbekistan in Atlanta on June 27.
A team spokesperson said no player in the squad had come from DR Congo. The squad and coach Sébastien Desabre are based outside the country, mostly in Europe.
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DR Congo kept friendlies against Denmark in Liège on June 3 and Chile in Cádiz on June 9. However, it cancelled a planned three-day send-off trip to Kinshasa.
The World Health Organisation raised the Ebola outbreak risk in DR Congo to “very high” on Friday.
