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A serological examination to ensure that the players are not infected by the coronavirus and armored concentrations in disinfected sports centers are part of the plan prepared by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) for the return of Series A.

The FIGC Medical Commission , made up of elite doctors and virologists, met this week to reason on the steps to be followed and gradually return to normal, when it is 40 days since the last Serie A match played.

The Italian Government ordered confinement until May 3 and, according to the latest decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, athletes will be able to re-train in sports centers from day 4 .

If Italian volleyball, rugby or basketball have already definitively renounced the 2019-2020 season, soccer, which faces losses that can touch the billion euros , is determined to take extreme measures in order to resume competition and avoid losses millionaires.

Among them, the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, also considers the extreme hypothesis of competing only in the center and in the south of the country, without organizing parties in the northern regions, those most affected by the coronavirus.

The doctors and virologists who analyzed the country's medical situation advised resuming football following three phases : first, Series A, which has superior financial resources and can more easily respect health requirements, and then Series B (Second category) and the Series C (Third category).

The plan foresees to summon all the squads about 72 or 96 hours before to subject players, technicians, managers, press officers and collaborators to a serological examination that confirms their refusal in complete safety.

As soon as this is certain, the clubs should organize an armored concentration in their sports centers, trying to avoid all kinds of contact with outsiders.

Clubs with residences in their sports cities will host footballers there, while the rest will have to stay in hotels that have also been completely disinfected.

If training starts on day 4, as expected at this time, it is estimated that it will take about three weeks before the footballers regain the physical preparation necessary to return to compete in Series A.

Of course, this plan involves some complications to take into account for its real development.

In the face of the health crisis that affected Italy and the rest of the world, many foreign players from Serie A clubs got the go-ahead from their teams to return to their respective countries.

The Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín, the Brazilians Alex Sandro and Douglas Costa, the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic or the German Sami Khedira, players from Juventus Turin, the Uruguayan Diego Godín, the Slovenian Samir Handanovic or the Danish Christian Eriksen, from Inter Milan, are some of footballers who are no longer in Italy.

Italian regulations foresee that those who return to Italy from abroad in this period comply with fourteen days of isolation in their homes, to check that they are not infected.

Thus, for the players who left Italy to be available to start training on May 4, they must return to the transalpine country before April 20.

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