OM captain Steve Mandanda.

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Steve Mandanda victim of "a settlement problem" between the French League (LFP) and the international confederations, Fifa and UEFA, after having tested positive for Covid?

This is what the entourage of the French international goalkeeper believes. 

"Everyone returns the ball" between his club and the French Football Federation (FFF), indicates the source.

Mandanda has been positive on two virological tests in Blue, but it is likely that there is residue of the new coronavirus in a patient who is already infected.

"Il Fenomeno" contracted the Covid on August 16 while remaining asymptomatic, suffered the fortnight, and was able to resume competition in Brest, Sunday August 30, where OM won 3-2 for their resumption in Ligue 1 He had been tested several times before this match, according to the protocol of the Professional Football League (LFP), and the tests were all negative.

The PCR can detect the presence of the virus.

DD with two goalkeepers for the League of Nations

According to OM and the player's entourage, the FFF should have drawn up a file to warn UEFA that Mandanda had already been affected, and that for him, a serological test was necessary, to find the antibodies specific to Covid- 19, showing that the person concerned no longer needs to be in solitary confinement.

“Steve is not contagious, and in addition he has always been asymptomatic, adds one of his relatives.

If he was positive, he would have passed it on to someone in the France team ... "

Lack of time to carry out other tests on a new goalkeeper, coach Didier Deschamps, who will therefore only take two goals, captain Hugo Lloris and Lille Mike Maignan, for the Blues matches in Sweden on Saturday and against Croatia Tuesday, in the League of Nations.

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