The tests prior to the start of training have shot up to 23 positives in the last two days between First and Second Division clubs, divided into thirteen teams. Athletic, with its six cases, has been at the forefront of the positives by Coivid-19 detected in the last two days, a list that yesterday included Jaboba Arrasate, Osasuna coach, two related to Celta and Toliso , from Barcelona, among the players who returned to do the preseason. 10 positives in four clubs joining Tuesday’s confirmations, a day full of official statements announcing detected cases of Covid-19. Up to nine teams between La Liga and La Liga Smartbank had been affected: Valencia, Betis, Huesca, Granada, Alavés, Las Palmas, Espanyol, Mallorca and Tenerife.
To these we would have to add days ago the two cases of Atlético de Madrid before traveling to Lisbon to face the Champions League, that of Mariano in Real Madrid and the case of Gudelj in Sevilla, which has prevented him from being in the Europa League. And if we go back days, we have the remembered case of Fuenlabrada, as well as positive ones in Zaragoza and Almería before preparing for the promotion play-off. In women’s football, the most worrying situation is that of an Atlético that has five positives just over a week after facing the Champions League against Barça.
The end of the holidays was marked on the templates by the PCR tests destined to know the state of the footballers after the break. A fundamental requirement within the security protocol of the League to return with full guarantees to training. In the case of Athletic, it should be remembered that it successfully passed the tests that the club carried out in May to resume training for the final eleven games that were played between June and July. Nothing to do with what happened today with up to six cases detected in the tests that the club underwent yesterday in Lezama.
Shortly before the rojiblanca entity announced its positives, it was Celta who declared that there were two among the tests that the Balaídos club carried out last Saturday. And also in the morning it was known that Toliso, one of the nine footballers who started the preseason yesterday, also tested positive. ANDThe club has made it clear in its note that these players had not been in relation to the squad They face their Champions League quarter-final match against Bayern on Friday.
Yesterday the dripping was constant. Alavés, Valencia, Granada, Betis, Huesca, Espanyol, Las Palmas, Tenerife and Mallorca They took measures to isolate the players who have tested positive, as established by the protocol, and to be able to start the rest of their squads with training.
As it happened five months ago, Alavés has several infected. The club reported yesterday that three members of the entity They tested positive in the PCR test they underwent on Monday and in the next few days they will undergo another test to assess their situation.
Valencia reported of two positive cases and also repeats in this situation, At the beginning of the pandemic, 35% of the members of the first team and coaching staff tested positive. Among them were José Luis Gayà, Ezequiel Garay and Paco Camarasa.
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