Vaccination day in the Football City of Las Rozas. The expedition of the Spanish soccer team has been vaccinated against the coronavirus by the Armed Forces. The health workers in charge of inoculating the vaccines arrived in several vehicles to carry out the vaccination operation.
Footballers and coaching staff who have overcome the disease eight weeks ago have received a single dose of Pfizer, while those who have not had the disease have been vaccinated with the single dose of Janssen, despite the fact that this prophylaxis is not recommended for people under 40 years of age because of the very rare cases of thrombi registered among the young population. In this way, all of them will arrive with the complete vaccination schedule at the Eurocup and possible adverse reactions that would deprive Luis Enrique of a footballer in the middle of the tournament will be avoided.
???? This has been the vaccination process of the players of the @SeFutbol in the City of Soccer of Las Rozas.
The members of the Security Unit of the Central Defense Hospital have been in charge of administering the vaccine against Covid-19.# We are Spain#EURO2020pic.twitter.com/FwW0HBCzsu
Spanish Soccer Team (@SeFutbol) June 11, 2021
Thiago Alcantara, who addressed the media, explained the doubts that had arisen about the advisability of vaccination: “We are human in a new world and we had to analyze, ask and resolve any doubts that existed on a personal level.” “When we resolved the personal doubts and you enter the professional issue and the reaction it may have in the short term,” added the Liverpool midfielder. “At the football level they say there would be no problem for the first game”, sentenced to settle the doubts that had arisen about a possible reaction that affected their performance.
Some players have posed for the official club media receiving the vaccine or with the vaccination ‘passport’. Subsequently, the members of the Security Unit of the Hospital Central de la Defensa Gómez Ulla, in charge of inoculating the doses to the members of La Roja, have received a shirt from the national team as thanks for the work carried out.
The vaccination of the players and the coaching staff of the soccer team, which has been surrounded by controversy in the last week, has been carried out after receiving the approval of the Ministry of Health and with it is intended to facilitate that Spain can play the European Championship 2020 with full security guarantees, in addition to allowing the national team to compete on equal terms with other participating teams that have already been immunized.
The coach Luis Enrique showed yesterday his discomfort to the media about the delay in vaccinations: “We would have liked it to have been done at the right time, which was after the official list,” he declared. “That could not be achieved then,” lamented the Asturian coach, who stressed that “it would annoy him a lot if there were adverse reactions.”
With the vaccination process completed, the team will be ready to debut in the Eurocup next Monday (9:00 p.m.) against Sweden at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville.
Russian winger Mostovoi replaced after testing positive
Russian winger Andrei Mostovoi, from Zenit Saint Petersburg, has tested positive for covid-19 and has been replaced by defender Roman Evgenyev, as announced by the Russian team that debuts this Saturday against Belgium.
“Due to the unfavorable result of Andrei Mostovoi’s PCR test, the technical ‘staff’ has decided to summon defender Roman Evgenyev in his place,” said the selection through Telegram.
Dinamo Moscow defender Roman Evgenyev was on the 30-man shortlist announced in May by Russian coach Stanislav Cherchesov.
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