Bad news for Portugal: the Lusitanian team loses in fact Joao Cancelo. The Lusitanian football association has announced that the Manchester City full-back has tested positive for Coronavirus. The player is already in solitary confinement in Hungary, his place in the national team led by Joao Santos will be taken by Diogo Dalot, owned by Manchester United and on loan to Milan last season.
“The Hungarian health authorities were immediately informed and the player – who is fine, the official statement reads – was placed in solitary confinement. The result of the test carried out by the USP was confirmed by an RT-PCR test carried out on João Cancelo as well. Saturday and the result of which was announced on Sunday morning. In accordance with the covid-19 protocol defined by UEFA before the EURO 2020 matches, on Saturday all players and members of the entourage were subjected to RT-PCR tests. , with the exception of João Cancelo, were negative. The Hungarian health authorities have become aware of compliance with the protection procedures, fully respected according to the UEFA protocol, in a group that also has a high rate of vaccination coverage and have authorized the national team to respect the plan stipulated for the European Championship without any changes “.
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