The alarm went off on the morning of this Sunday in el Real Madrid when the results of the antigen tests ordered by UEFA ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Inter
of the Champions detected a positive inconclusive of a player whose name has not been revealed. The players passed a PCR test this morning, the results of which will be released tonight.
It is not the first scare that has occurred in the last hours in Valdebebas. Three Castilla players tested positive for coronavirus last Friday, which forced the suspension of the game that the team that Raúl trains in El Cerro de El Espino had to play at 12 o’clock this morning against Rayo Majadahonda of group 5 of Second B.
Two precedents in football
Mariano and Lunin were already affected in their day
The subsidiary shares the Valdebebas compound with the first team, but the club has tried since the beginning of the pandemic to keep the routine of both teams tight. Despite this, there are castillistas (Blanco, Gutiérrez, Sergio Santos …) who train regularly with the first team and two (Marvin and Arribas) made their debuts with Madrid on the first day of the League in Anoeta. A final example is that of Santos, called up for the game against Borussia.
Benzema scores with a header against Huesca (Manu Fernandez / AP)
Since the start of the pandemic, two Madrid players have tested positive for coronavirus. They are the Catalan forward Mariano Diaz and the Ukrainian goalkeeper Andrei Lunin; both passed the curantena and have already returned to training, although neither has made their debut.
The first case
Thompkins, coronavirus in the basketball section
The first case of coronavirus detected in the club was that of the North American basketball player Trey Thompkins, on March 12, which forced a two-week home confinement not only to the first soccer and basketball squads, as well as their technical staff , but to all the workers of Valdebebas, some 750 people, among them workers who do not usually have direct contact with athletes: gardeners, security guards, maintenance and hospitality workers of the residence as well as administrative workers in general.
