Daniel Avellaneda
08/31/2020 - 19:37
Clarín.com
sports
The massive cases in Boca put government authorities and the AFA on alert.
However, for now
there would be no going back with training.
Much less, with the Copa Libertadores.
From the Ministries of Health and Tourism and Sports they warned
Clarín
that the approved protocols must be respected and that any modification will be a decision of the leadership of the football mother house.
From there until the championship
is
given the green light,
there is a long way
to go.
In the Professional Football League (LPF) one of the proposed formats is the one with the greatest chances of acceptance, and would have the date of September 25 as a starting point, but it all depends on the OK from the Casa Rosada.
Conmebol, likewise,
remains firm
in its position of continuing with the scheduled dates for the resumption of the Cup, which will begin on September 15 and 48 hours later for Argentine teams.
As they told this medium from Asunción, if the Boca and River bubbles failed "it was because they did not comply with the protocols."
In the protocol of operations for the resumption of the competition, published on July 22, there are a series of recommendations for training, but it does not speak of the "bubbles" to which the two colossi of Argentine soccer appealed.
And
Fred Nantes
, Conmebol's director of Competitions,
explained
that there is
no possibility of suspending the matches
because the number of players registered in the list in good faith was increased.
He went from 30 to 40.
“If the team has 7 players available, it will have to go out onto the pitch.
And if not, the walkover will be applied and the game will be lost 3-0 ”, explained the Brazilian official.
Nicolas Capaldo, during training in Boca.
(Photo: Javier Garcia Martino)
From Conmebol they assure that Boca's desire to postpone the debut in the Libertadores
has no chance of prospering.
The organization's authorities also believe that they have already had too many contemplations with Argentina.
And they emphasize that
it is already played in Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Ecuador.
"Argentina does not have a crown," they
say in Luque.
Without going any further, just last Tuesday the sanitary corridor was approved that will allow the participating teams of the Libertadores and the Sudamericana to avoid quarantine.
Players will swab themselves before boarding the plane, land at the match venue, and concentrate on the hotel.
From there they will move to the stadium, play and return to their home country.
All in 72 hours.
River was the first team that had problems with its bubble.
On Friday,
Adrián Olivieri
, goalkeeping coach, showed symptoms of Covid-19, was tested and tested positive.
As a first step, the players remained locked in their rooms at the Holiday Inn and worked individually on Saturday.
The San Lorenzo squad trains on the AFA grounds.
Photo: San Lorenzo Press
San Lorenzo was scared and there will be no concentration on the AFA property in Ezeiza.
“When seeing what happened in River, our doctors and the infectologist understand that if you are in a bubble and an infected person falls, the entire campus could get out of hand if they start to spread each other.
And now we see what is happening in Boca ”, Miguel Mastrosimone, the club's secretary, told
Clarín
.
The
Cyclone
had hired the infectious disease specialist
Pablo Presa
.
He was not the only one who incorporated two specialists to his medical staff:
Pedro Flynn and Valeria Vitolo
work in Rosario Central.
As for the other teams that Libertadores will play, Defensa y Justicia also decided to dispense with the bubble that they planned to implement in the Bosques sports complex.
Tigre will continue to be concentrated between the Country Mapuche and the Howard Johnson de Pilar hotel.
And Racing will stay at NH Lancaster a week before the debut with Nacional for the Cup.
FK