ZonalSports summarizes the most news-worthy footballing headlines from Saturday, April 23 and Sunday April 24.

1: Look who's BRA-ck ARGAN: 'Cancelled' Brazil-Argentina clash get new date
The International Football Association "FIFA" has set a date for the rescheduled match between Brazil and Argentina in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, which was canceled last year.

Last September, the match was called off minutes after it began due to medical officials storming the field to prohibit the participation of several Britain-based Argentine players.

According to the Argentine daily Ole, the Argentine Football Association got a formal letter from FIFA informing them of the revised date for the match in the last few hours. FIFA has chosen to stage the match in Brazil on September 22nd, exactly two months before the World Cup begins in Qatar.

2: Take me to CORT: League top scorer, Cortez, arrested for gang involvement
Gabriel Cortez of Barcelona, the league's top scorer this season, was detained on Friday in a security operation together with 18 other persons for their suspected involvement in the establishment of a criminal organization operating in the coastal province of Esmeralda, which borders Colombia.

According to a statement released by the state attorney general's office, a judicial judgment was delivered in Ecuador at midnight remanding all individuals arrested by the police, with the exception of a pregnant woman who will come before the court on a regular basis.

The judicial judgment also prohibited the disposition of property and the seizure of assets possessed by persons accused by the Public Prosecutor's Office with an alleged organized crime crime and belonging to the "Los Tijurons" gang.

Cortez, who has scored seven goals for Barcelona in the first nine rounds of the Ecuadorian league, has been accused by investigators of sending instructions and receiving information about the victims slain by the gang, according to Ecuadorian Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo.

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