Threat of collapse and division in Spanish soccer

• Covid-19. Wave of positives in Spanish football

Soccer crosses the fingers before the outbreaks of the Covid-19 that threaten the paralysis of the competition and reproaches are made that question the Pact of Viana , forged on anguished needs, not on loyalties. Yesterday, the outbreak of Fuenlabrada and the positive of Madrid's Mariano team were followed by three other cases in the squads of Sevilla, Almería and Zaragoza . All after the small vacations that have opened a crack in the LaLiga protocol , which could not carry out its desire to concentrate the teams, something that the Higher Sports Council also recommended.(CSD). Without a bubble, as in basketball, safety was relative. After a month of notable compliance, with some exceptions, and some luck, the reality of the outbreaks confronts football with collapse and, again, with division.

Although in the case of Mariano , the positive was revealed before the return to training and, consequently, that he had had contact with his teammates, the rest have been known after the return to the preparation sessions after a few days of rest. , fact that has caused panic about the consequences that it could have for the teams and tournaments in which they are involved if more contagions appear. Sevilla have the Europa League ahead , while Almería and Zaragoza are involved in the playoffs for promotion to Primera.

In strict application of the LaLiga protocol, all the soccer players were sent to their homes, where they must remain confined, while undergoing new PCR tests. The same will happen with employees who have had contact with the players. The facilities will remain closed while disinfection proceeds. The new results of the analyzes will be, therefore, key to determine if these positives are treated as isolated cases or as the germ of an outbreak, similar to what happened with Fuenlabrada, which has added 26 positives , 18 among those who carried out the controversial displacement to La Coruña and eight others in Madrid.

Sprouts are generally associated with youth and leisure throughout the country. The same happens with the positives of the soccer players, to whom the technicians granted rest after a few intense weeks of games to conclude the LaLiga. The images that have transpired of Mariano or Banega , player of Sevilla, in places of leisure and without a mask, reveal that, in some cases, the precautions required of any citizen have not been observed. For footballers, given their responsibility towards the clubs, they had to go to extreme lengths. Banega was already in a controversial barbecue with other Sevilla players in which the number of people who could meet during one of the phases of the state of alarm was exceeded.

Sevilla performed the tests on Sunday and that same day the team trained, unlike Madrid , which did not do so until the results were known. After being notified of the positive, all Sevilla players underwent new tests. If not more positive, the team will return to training on Thursday, with the aim of preparing for their round of 16 match in the Europa League, on August 6 against Roma in the German city of Duisburg. In the case of the Sevilla and Almería players, both are asymptomatic, unlike Zaragoza, who contacted the club when they woke up with symptoms of Covid-19.

"We couldn't make a bubble in soccer"

There is concern in the organizations involved, although they all agree to "wait for the results" to decide on the scenario created. However, they are generally critical of the lack of control that may have existed on footballers on their vacations. "The perfect bubble was that of basketball, but in football we couldn't make it," they assume from one of the offices. The ACB League was compressed, while LaLiga had to keep its schedule for television rights. Despite this, Javier Tebas was one of the defenders of concentrating the teams, something that the CSD also recommended in his protocol . He found opposition from the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE).

The Fuenlabrada case ended up confronting CSD and Liga, as the body chaired by Irene Lozano understood that there were flaws in the protocol, shortly after sitting at Viana's table with Luis Rubiales , with their own interests, since the Federation manages the promotion playoffs from Second B to Second. It could be the most interested in the last matchday of the Second being played, despite the fact that Deportivo-Fuenlabrada was not played, now on the table of the Competition Committee. The staged quorum on the decision was forced. Precisely, the AFE convened, today, a meeting to address the case of Fuenlabrada, which the CSD did not attend. The football unit, falsely recovered with a very fine thread, does not resist the Covid-19.

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• Madrid
• Luis Rubiales
• La Coruña
• Javier Thebes
• Irene Lozano
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