Chile bans quintet ahead of qualifiers

Chile coach Claudio Borghi has suspended five players who turned up late for training in a state the coach has described as unacceptable for a member of the national squad. The banned quintet are Premier League side West Bromwich Albion's Gonzalo Jara, English Championship outfit Birmingham City's Jean Beausejour, Serie A midfielders Arturo Vidal and Carlos Carmona, and Brazil-based Jorge Valdivia. The players will miss Chile's 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifiers against Uruguay in Montevideo on Friday and Paraguay in Santiago next Tuesday. The five were hauled over the coals by Borghi after attending the baptism of Valdivia's son, and after the party they arrived for training 45 minutes late. Borghi told a press conference: "They arrived in a state that wasn't appropiate for the national team of Chile nor for a professional player. From that moment I decided to suspend them from the squad." The five have been replaced by players from the domestic league. Borghi added that he had acted "not because they had broken a written rule but because they broke their word, which is more serious". The bans come at a tricky time for Chile who are lying in sixth place after one win and one defeat in qualifying for Brazil 2014.