Because of Corona, the Spanish national team allocates a parallel team in "Euro 2020"
The Spanish national team created a health “bubble” for 11 additional reserve players, to be a “parallel” team capable of playing the European Cup finals, which begins on Friday, in the event that the number of Corona virus infections increased in the ranks of “La Roja.” And after the announcement of captain Sergio Busquets with the virus. On Sunday evening, the Spanish Football Federation revealed late Tuesday a second positive case of defender Diego Llorente.
In light of this reality and the possibility of new infections emerging, the team decided to expand its reserve squad, which initially included six players, adding 11 others in order to compensate for any possible absences from the continental finals.
And the Spanish team said in a statement on its website that “the technical team of the Spanish national team decided that the 11 internationals who were initially called up for the match against Lithuania will remain at the disposal of the Spanish team, while participating in the scheduled exercises under the supervision of Luis Enrique on Wednesday, June 9, starting from eleven in the morning.” .
This "parallel bubble" was created as a precautionary measure in the event that other positive cases linked to Busquets and Llorente's infection appeared, according to "La Roja".
The 11 substitute players included Alvaro Fernandes, Oscar Mingisa, Marc Cucurea, Brian Gil, Juan Miranda, Gonzalez Villar, Boso, Ibrahim Dias, Subimende, Yeremi Pino and Javi Boadu.
All of these players participated in the friendly match that was held on Tuesday in Leganes, which was won by "La Roja" 4-0 over Lithuania.
After the announcement on Sunday of Busquets' injury, the Spanish Federation expressed, late on Tuesday night, "it regrets to announce that the examination of defender Diego Llorente came back positive, following the recent tests + BCR + carried out this morning (Tuesday) at the national team training headquarters in Las Rosas." .
Similar to what happened with midfielder and captain Busquets, the Spanish Federation confirmed that Llorente "will leave this evening (between Tuesday - Wednesday) the national team in a medical car, in compliance with the health protocol."
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