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Some already have a fever. And headache », in the early morning, with the sun waking up La Coruña and few walkers on the Orzán beach, the part that came from the Fuenlabrada hotel brought ugly tenths of illness. Club President Jonathan Praena, he later confirmed it while defending himself against the accusations made about his team, which they are calling reckless for traveling to Galicia last Monday with infected players. That outbreak completely altered the last day of the Second, played without Deportivo-Fuenlabrada due to the health alert. Yesterday, the Community of Madrid already counted as its own the 11 infections discovered in the confined club. He also detailed the follow-up that he is carrying out around these positives: 96 contacts, all aged between 22 and 48 years, where a new infected has been detected.

These news overshadowed the outlook for the team a little more, subjected to new tests yesterday and still not knowing when it will be able to return to Madrid. Even the negative cases are not clear if they will get permission to fly in the next few hours. The Xunta intends that the infected pass the quarantine under its strict control. The Galician health service questioned the zero risk that the League assures that the trips of its teams are encapsulated , without contact with the outside, according to its protocol. Despite all this, three bus drivers and a local fan were isolated at their homes and subjected to tests to prevent the virus from spreading through La Coruña.

It's his fault. Fuenlabrada committed gross negligence. He should have informed the authorities and not traveled, "attacks Fernando Vidal , the president of Deportivo, who attends EL MUNDO with a tired voice. He prefers to point out his rival to the League, aware of the outbreak since Sunday. No one warned the authorities because soccer's guidelines for action did not contemplate group isolation if they found a positive, contrary to what is being done in any other business sector. It should be emphasized that the authorities, represented in the form of the Higher Sports Council (that is, the Government), gave their approval to the now questioned league protocol.

"An outbreak, not an isolated positive"

Yesterday afternoon, however, from the body chaired by Irene Lozano , the speech against the football association and Fuenlabrada itself rose in a statement that shakes this case a little more. "From our point of view, a serious error was made when undertaking the trip: those who took the test on Monday morning must have been isolated, until the result was known (which happened when they were already in A Coruña)", The note said, very severe in the tone against mismanagement that the League and the Madrid club did in the hours before the move to Galicia.

Recalling the CSD yesterday that Javier Tebas , president of the League, and Irene Lozano herself said at the time that a contagion would not have to suspend the competition, the government department defended itself by pointing out that Sunday was "an outbreak, no an isolated positive ». CSD sources regret that the information was late. «According to the facts gathered in the report of La Liga, it seems that the CF Fuenlabrada failed to comply with the protocols. Therefore, the problem is not in these, but in their misapplication. The League is responsible for correctly applying the protocols and the League is responsible for ensuring that this is done.

Fernando Vidal, president of Deportivo.EFE

But this controversy breaks out with two aspects: health and sports. Because the viral alarm is joined by the impact that the suspension of the Fuenlabrada match has on the competition. Now it is pending to play an encounter between a team with a live outbreak of contagions and another that is, at first glance, down to Second B and with their semi-vacation players. On that result -that nobody knows when they will be able to meet- depends also the phase of promotion to First.

In this mess Deportivo feels "run over", in the words of its president. Entrepreneur shipping, young athlete and shareholder of the club, Vidal took over the presidency last Christmas. The results of Monday, without even jumping to the grass, sank the team amid the shock of a burning city against Fuenlabrada. Without Covid, people would be on the streets protesting. The only solution is political: a League of 24. We are going to go for them all. I do not feel like a Second B club, ”he tells EL MUNDO, before assuring that if they do not find help in sports justice they will go to the ordinary courts. "A very serious mistake has been made and it is not fair for Deportivo to pay for it."

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