The footballers will undergo a test before each match and must go to the facilities already with training or game clothes, in addition to showering in the hotels or in their own homes, since the use of the changing rooms is again limited
With a constant drip of covid-19 cases among Spanish clubs in recent days, LaLiga has made the decision to review its anticovid protocol in order to try to solve as far as possible the incidence of the coronavirus in the competition. To do this, it tightens the precautionary measures and returns to a roadmap typical of delicate moments of the pandemic.
All clubs must submit their players, employees and workers related to the first teams to a daily antigen test at their facilities. Likewise, during the first two weeks of January, when a peak in infections derived from Christmas is expected, a PCR and a serological test should be carried out weekly.
All players must undergo a test when they return from their holidays, as well as when they return after the FIFA national team windows, three days off or in the case of the arrival of new signings. And it is that in the offices the incidence in the contagion that they can have Christmas holidays, in which it is impossible to monitor the state of health of the footballers, is of particular concern.
Regarding the matches, the entire local team will have to take a test in the morning of the same day while the visiting expedition will do it before starting their trip. On the other hand, the use of changing rooms is again limited, since footballers will have to go to the facilities already with training or game clothes and will shower in the hotels or in their own homes.
Regarding the guidelines to follow in the concentrations, LaLiga recommends that the players who eat in the premises of their clubs do so at tables of four people, in such a way that the distribution is always the same in order to limit the range of scope. of the virus in case of a positive.
For travel, the club’s employers recommend limiting the time of stay in stations and terminals as much as possible, avoiding the busiest commercial areas and increasing the number of buses in road trips to ensure occupation of the vehicles not exceeding 50% that guarantees the interpersonal safety distance.
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