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In the middle of the mess for the postponement of the Deportivo-Fuenlabarada of the last day of the Second division that has professional football on edge, the playoff from promotion from Third division to Second B is also altered by the coronavirus. The Federation Competition Judge announced late Monday that the Portugalete, with a positive in his squad, he will not be able to play the play-off game to which he would be entitled in the event of losing his tie against the Sestao, postponed on Saturday hours before contesting when alarms were raised over a case of Covid in the environment of a portugalujo soccer player. «We are hurt, the resolution has fallen like a blow to us because we have complied with all the protocols and now we see our rights diminished. It was a very hard blow that we are trying to redo, “explains ABC president of the entity, Eduardo Rivacoba.
To understand this mess in modest football, you have to look back. The paralysis of the League forced the RFEF to modify the promotion playoff to set an express format. Two semifinals and a final between the first four to decide a promotion in each of the 18 groups of Third division. This year, however, the teams that go up in category are 20 to square a Second B that in the 2020-21 academic year will be made up, for the first time, of one hundred clubs. For this reason, the Federation decided that the leaders of each Third party group that did not advance in the playoff would enjoy a second chance, facing each other in a play-off for those two places, a phase from which the Portugalete for that decision of Competition. “And to look for the health of the team and the rivals, we are going to take away their play-off … This is how we are,” he lamented ironically yesterday. Ezequiel Loza, the coach, through their social networks.
A discomfort that the President Rivacoba telephoned to ABC. “We were carrying a lot of burden with this atypical playoff that is taking much longer than normal and, when the decisive moment arrived, a problem arose that we have honestly solved. As a prize, now we see our rights diminished because they take away the possibility of play-offs, that resolution is a very hard blow, “he insists.
A player’s girlfriend
On Saturday all the finals for promotion to Second B were played, except the Portugalete-Sestao, postponed when a positive was detected in the girlfriend of a Portuguese player who immediately alerted his club. Staff, technicians and managers gave negative tests that passed on Sunday, except for the footballer who set off the alarm. As in the case of Dépor-Fuenlabrada, lack of time is the greatest enemy because the League must be ended and the Competition Judge left Portugalete no possibility of respect to avoid paralyzing the playoff for days. “In the eyes of all we should be the example to follow and more when information is appearing that there is a team that has played this weekend with a positive that has not communicated,” says the leader.
The decision does not imply that Portugalete has definitely missed the possibility of promotion, but will have to do so by winning in the final against Sestao. You will not have a new bullet like others. Only Linares, Marino, Lealtad and Alcoyano They will enjoy that second opportunity next weekend. “When the players get out of the confinement and we can play, we will fight until exhaustion for promotion, that is very clear. What is happening to us now is going to be another stimulus, “warns the president, who is also consulting the possibility of taking the case through the courts. The Basque Government carry out verification tests at Portugalete As of Monday, August 3, therefore, the party against Sestao, “if everyone gives a negative and at the earliest,” could be held “between August 6 and 7,” argued the RFEF Judge. That would take the play-off almost until mid-August and the Federation did not want to delay the course so long.
From the portugalujo club they assure that they have a very clear conscience and say that they have acted responsibly to preserve the health of their players and that of their rivals, but they are annoyed at being the only club that, despite following all protocols, sees their options for promotion to Second B were diminished, an objective for which they have been fighting for months.
While the Portugalete wailed, yesterday the play-off draw, that paired Lealtad-Alcoyano (August 1) and Marino-Linares (2).
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