• Massive tests.Improved LaLiga plans
  • Deportivo Doctor "Some players are afraid"

Weeks ago, the wife of one of the stars of the League told the physical therapist that she was trying to enter the house, to treat her husband, that without a negative coronavirus test it would not pass. He did not want to put his children at risk. The scene reflects the uneasiness that the footballers' families also experience during the pandemic, especially now that the time is approaching to return to training.

The announcement by the Prime Minister that from May 2 it will be possible to go out for an exercise allows LaLiga to be optimistic about the reactivation of training, halted on Friday by the suspension of massive tests on the First and Second Division squads . The social scenario, they hope, will be more conducive to launching the demanding protocol that must still be approved by the Ministry of Health. However, his manager, Salvador Illa, was cautious yesterday. «I cannot say if soccer is going to restart its activity before the summer. It would be reckless of me ».

A position shared with the CSD , despite the sports permit that Pedro Sánchez drew . "The numbers of infections and deaths will mark the steps," they recall in the body chaired by Irene Lozano. Even so, LaLiga works to resume throughout this week its plans and submit all players and coaches to controls, and later, with a clean map of infections - they trust - open the first phase of its de- escalation project , which allows individual trainings at the equipment facilities. Later the sessions would come in small groups and, finally, those of the entire campus - already concentrated - and heading to the beginning of the championship, in June. A process subjected to constant tests to identify possible positives.

The templates, uneasy

LaLiga's meticulous protocol does not prevent many soccer players and club doctors from facing the new stage with skepticism and, in some cases, fear. More than one First and Second squad have transmitted to their superiors that they fear a return to training, "as long as there is no certainty guaranteed by the health authorities," they argue. One of them, that of Barcelona , current leader of the table and theoretical champion if the tournament does not resume, according to the regulations announced by the Federation.

They understand in the Catalan entity that the rush plays against not only the interests of the club, whose income has plummeted, but also the security of its greatest asset, footballers. Only with their agreement would they accept to return to the competition.

Some player goes further and asks about tomorrow. This is confirmed in the guild of the agents, who do not know how to answer a recurring question in the last hours. If I get it, will my lungs be okay in the future? Will it not affect my career? Doubts to clarify, as many in relation to the leathery coronavirus. A couple of scientific studies. in Hong Kong and Wuhan , they have detected losses of lung function by up to 30% in some recovered patients. The medical services try to calm the squads, navigating between the financial interests of the clubs and the logical concern of the players. Legally, this is a very delicate matter for them, due to the responsibilities that any contagion could entail. They are confident that LaLiga will produce a homogeneous document of consent that the players should sign before starting training.

The Spanish Association of Soccer Team Doctors is already probing the situation in other countries. In Italy, for example, a letter has been published where 17 of the 20 medical charts of the clubs express their flaws with Lega's return plans. The transalpine doctors describe the plan as hasty and demand protection against possible legal or criminal consequences in the event of any contagion during this calcium de-escalation process. Only Juventus, Lazio and Genoa were left unsigned.

In Spain, Javier Tebas , president of LaLiga, clarified last Friday that with or without games there would be promotions and decreases in the current season. A warning to the possible private interests that he suspects could move after the sanitary buts that are putting some changing rooms.

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  • Pedro Sánchez
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  • Italy
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