River Plate reported that two players presented a feverish picture at the start of the preseason in Orlando

River Plate reported that the footballers Lecanda and Peña could not develop the first day of training after presenting a feverish picture. The youth players were the only two soccer players on the team who had a temperature, after they received the coronavirus vaccine last Saturday in Orlando, United States, where they carry out the preseason.

“Due to presenting fever syndrome, Tomás Lecanda and Felipe Peña Biafore did not participate in this afternoon’s training”, informed the medical part of the club. Both players had their long-awaited debut in the Copa Libertadores duel against Independiente Santa Fe, where River Plate appealed to several youth players to replace the numerous casualties due to the coronavirus outbreak in the squad.

Lecanda and Peña Biafore will be observed in the next few hours and the medical team will decideá depending on its evolution if they will join the work this Monday, in the double shift that will take place in the ESPN Wide World of Sports.

It is worth remembering that Lucas Beltrán is not part of River Plate’s preseason in Orlando. The forward had to return to Argentina on the stopover in Lima, Peru, because he did not meet the requirements to enter the United States.

As he had been on vacation in Europe, Beltrán must remain in quarantine for 14 days to be allowed to join with his companions. The 20-year-old footballer could be heading into preseason next weekend.

This Saturday around noon the River Plate team landed in the United States, a place chosen by the coaching staff headed by Marcelo Gallardo to carry out the preseason for a semester in which the team will face multiple challenges. However, in the middle of the trip, the delegation lost one of its members: a footballer was dropped on the scale in Lima because he did not comply with the established protocols to enter the North American country.

As soon as he arrived at his destination, The members of the millionaire delegation received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the coronavirus before leaving the airport. In this way, the immunization of all those who traveled to carry out the preseason on North American soil was fulfilled.

“The team arrived this afternoon in Orlando, where All the players, members of the coaching staff and collaborators received the Covid-19 vaccine. Lucas Beltrán will join his teammates in the coming days, ”the Núñez club reported in an official statement published on its social networks on Saturday afternoon.

River is staying in North American territory in the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center and is based on the ESPN Wide World, the sports complex owned by the American television network and which in 2020 housed the NBA “bubble” to carry out its playoffs. Gallardo’s idea is to be able to play three friendly matches: one against America de Cali from Colombia (Sunday June 27) and two against Barcelona of Ecuador (Wednesday June 30 and Sunday July 4), one of the surprises in the current edition of the Copa Libertadores.

After the loss of Beltrán, there are 26 footballers who have traveled for the preseason. The great absentees are Leonardo Ponzio (affected by myocarditis after being infected with covid-19) and those footballers who are playing the Copa América with their respective national teams: Nicolas de la Cruz (Uruguay), Franco Armani, Julián Álvarez, Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Robert Rojas, David Martínez (Paraguay) and Rafael Santos Borré (Colombia).

This is the most intense part of the preparation for the commitments that River will face in the second part of the year that will include the dispute of the local tournament, the Liberators cup (will be measured against Argentinos Juniors in the round of 16) and the Argentina Cup (He will face Boca Juniors in the second round). The return is scheduled for July 5 at 9:00 p.m., by charter to Ezeiza.

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