Before the start of professional sports activity, today, in its first phase, soccer doctors want to know exactly what they can and should not do, in relation to coronavirus tests, so as not to incur in legal breaches. In this way, the Spanish Association of Soccer Doctors (AEMEF) makes it known in a statement, while requesting the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to be specific in its instructions. The Health criterion is that people with symptoms or who have been in contact with people infected with Covid-19 are tested. The sport has to be governed by the same norm, according to the CSD, but it left to the doctors' discretion the possibility of prescribing the tests, a fact that opens up the possibility that they are carried out by the majority of players, as requested. The same is true in private companies for thousands of employees.

AEMEF asks the CSD for "specific indications about the possibility of requesting preventive tests, in relation to the power to prescribe tests (tests) granted to medical managers of soccer entities, in principle subject to the Ministerial Order of the Ministry of Health of April 13, 2020 ". The doctors want to legally protect themselves against any incident or claim.

Likewise, the association of doctors requests the CSD to make infectious disease specialist clubs available to carry out advisory work on the return to activity protocol set by the body chaired by Irene Lozano. This request has also been made by the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE).

The soccer physicians have an impact in their statement that they have repeatedly expressed to the soccer organizations involved "the priority of protecting the health of the soccer players, as well as the need to provide certainty with the professional work of the medical services of the clubs during each and every one of the phases designed for the return to sports activity ".

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