The new restrictions announced yesterday by the Generalitat to curb the increase in coronavirus infections were received with indignation by most clubs, which already consider the season lost and are beginning to doubt, in some cases, its viability. From Thursday the Procicat will only allow the practice of outdoor sports, with the exception of professional and semi-professional teams that play tournaments in Spain or internationally. In practice this means that pavilions and gyms are closed, and that with the daily municipal confinement it will not be possible to move for anyone who plays with a team that is not from the same population.
“The lack of respect for sport is maximum, they are condemning the clubs to misery,” said yesterday, in a personal capacity, the sporting director of Spar Girona, Pere Puig. Discourse is usually common in most entities. There is a lack of coherence when making decisions and no one explains why you can go to the cinema, the theater or the circus, to Fontajau, and instead a child cannot do sports in a pavilion. “We are outraged. Where are the reports where it is said that there have been outbreaks and infections in sport? ”Asked Joan Ferrer, from Bisbal Bàsquet.
The tightening of the measures means stopping training, or rescheduling them now in open spaces, with the consequent headache for the entities and their coaches and coaches, largely amateurs. Ramon Benito, coordinator of the Girona CH base, emphasized that “sport is an educational tool and this season is completely lost”. The president of Bordils, Quim Pou, highlighted the “contradiction” that certain competitions and training sessions are allowed, and that, on the other hand, the basic ones are suspended. The Sarrià board was also outraged and stressed that the measures could “shake” the viability of many entities.
Faced with this new blow to the world of sport, a platform has begun to emerge from Girona which, under the name of Enough is Enough, wants to be a vindictive movement that fights to be able to recover the activity of the sector. “We want to do sports, we follow all the protocols, but it’s enough to pay for the broken plates,” you can read on his twitter. Catalan grassroots and territorial competitions have been suspended since mid-October and there is no return date.
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