Alisson Becker has confirmed Brazil's stars will compete at this month's Copa America, despite frustration that the tournament was moved in the midst of the pandemic.
It was claimed last week that Brazil's stars would boycott this month's competition after the tournament was moved to Brazil due to Argentina and Colombia's ongoing Covid battle.
But the decision to move the tournament to Brazil was met with a huge backlash from Alisson’s team-mates as well as his side’s coach Tite.
They all felt the tournament should not go ahead in Brazil with the country facing its own outbreak of the virus.
But Alisson has now revealed that his side have reluctantly accepted the hosting responsibilities that have been thrust upon them.
“When a Brazilian is born, a fan is born," a statement posted by the Liverpool goalkeeper on social media read.
"And for more than 200 million fans we write this letter to express our opinion about the Copa America outcome.
"We are a cohesive group, but with different ideas. For many reasons, humanitarian or professional, we are not satisfied with the conduct shown by CONMEBOL relating to Copa America.
"All recent facts lead us to believe there has been an inadequate process.
"It is important to emphasise that at no time did we want to make this a political discussion. We are aware of the importance of our position - we follow what is published by the media, we are present on social media. We also try to avoid false news bearing our names being circulated without the true facts.
"Finally, we remember that we are workers, soccer professionals. We have a mission to achieve wearing the historic yellow and green jersey of the five-time world champions.
"We are against the organisation of Copa America, but we will never say no to the Brazilian national team."
Alisson, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino are all in the Brazil squad for the Copa America, which will now kick off on June 13 as planned if there are no more disruptions.
The Selecao will face Venezuela in their opening group game, before matches against Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.
