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Institute, before the impotence due to what happened in the group stage of the Champions League

The news came in the preview of the match with Flamengo and it was a “blow” for the entire albirroja delegation. Four players from the Institute staff had tested positive for Covid-19 and two had to isolate themselves because they were close contacts. The squad already had 11 basketball players, one had stayed in Buenos Aires for the same reason, and with six men less the meeting of the second date of the first group phase of the 2021 edition of the Basketball Champions League Americas it was impossible to face it. Half an hour before the start of the game, the game was suspended, a situation that could have been avoided if Fiba had given rise to the request of the Alta Córdoba entity.

“We do not really know what Fiba’s argument is for not having postponed the Institute’s commitments, we warned how the situation of the team was, the institution is betting a lot on this International Cup and we already knew that the team in Brazil was going to give a sports advantage by the situation we were experiencing. In Argentina, before traveling we had nine isolated players for 10 days; they were discharged on Monday, February 1 and on Tuesday, February 2, at 7 in the morning, they were getting on the plane to travel to Brazil “, Juan Manuel Cavagliatto, vice president of the Institute, tells Mundo D and admits that they did not know that this situation could occur, that the players would test positive again.

“We were in a delicate and complex situation, that’s why we asked that they give us the date, but since there are no dates to play and all the schedules are getting shorter, we had to show up to play. Everyone saw that the Institute was not in physical condition. to face the game he played (against Minas Tenis) and then what happened to us happened, “he adds, referring to the result of the swabs carried out on Thursday and the results of which were known on Friday, 30 minutes before the start of the match against Flamengo, at the Maracanazinho stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

How the events happened

At the request of the airline, the entire delegation had to be swabbed 72 hours before boarding the flight; The tests were carried out on Thursday because the return date is this Sunday. The results determined that Santiago Scala, Ignacio Alessio, Mateo Chiarini and Martín Cuello again tested positive for Covid-19, which is why they have already been tested serological to determine if they began to generate antibodies and can return on Sunday with the rest of the campus.

All the members of the delegation traveled to Brazil with their negative results, even the four mentioned basketball players did so with the epidemiological discharge issued in our country. “For us it is first to take care of the health of our players and then, sports. We are waiting for the results of the serological tests to be available and that all the players can travel and recover,” explains Cavagliatto and affirms that they already raised the situation at the time before Fiba.

“We don’t have much more to do. What we didn’t want is for them to make us play in unequal conditions. We are going to try to get well to get to the next window of this Champions League in the best way possible and see when we can reschedule the game with Flamengo, continue.

All the players are fine, without symptoms, although emotionally the blow was strong. “They came from 10 days of isolation in a room (they had to stay in Buenos Aires where they were playing the games for the National Basketball League), they trained one day, played a game and automatically you have to isolate them again. On a psychological level it collapses you, it is to be locked in a room again, to be isolated again. It becomes difficult for the head of a player who in the last 20 days had to be isolated 17 “, completes the glorious basketball strongman and adds that to Arriving in Buenos Aires, studies will be carried out to rule out any lung or heart problem.

“If everything is ok, the National League will reschedule the dates when we will have to play again. And then we will have to see the national calendars of Instituto and Flamengo to reschedule the match that was not played on Friday,” Cavagliatto closed.

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