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Blackburn and Chile reach agreement over Brereton October commitments

Blackburn Rovers have found an agreement with the Chilean football federation over the release of Ben Brereton Diaz for the October international break.

Brereton will play in their first two qualifiers next month against Peru and Paraguay on October 6 and 9 but miss the final qualifier of the window against Venezuela on October 13.

Rovers said he would return to the UK after the Paraguay game to "begin any required quarantine period and limiting the number of games he would miss for his club".

Brereton Diaz had been among a group of English-based players who were set to be ineligible to play for their clubs over the weekend after four national associations - Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay - asked FIFA to apply a restriction over their clubs' decision not to release the players for international duty in the September window.

However, it emerged late on Friday night that the demand to enforce the restriction had been dropped following extensive talks with FIFA.

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