09/22/2020 - 15:22
Clarín.com
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Seven players, a doctor and a member of the Flamengo professional football team tested positive for coronavirus and were isolated from the squad.
The team is in Guayaquil where this Tuesday it visits Barcelona in that Ecuadorian city for the fourth date of Group A of the 2020 Copa Libertadores.
Although the Municipality of Guayaquil and the Ministry of Health requested the postponement of the game due to the outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the Rio de Janeiro delegation, from Conmebol they confirmed to
Clarín
that the meeting (scheduled for 19:15 in Argentina) " going to play".
Sources of the entity clarified that the Brazilian club has in its possession "the tests with negative results of all those members of the delegation" who will participate in the meeting.
What is not known now is where the game would be played since the Emergency Committee, with the endorsement of the mayor of Guayaquil,
decided to temporarily disable the Monumental stadium.
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The Monumental stadium is temporarily disabled for sporting events of any kind, either with or without the public, until second order.
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At the same time that the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, the Bolsonarista pastor Marcelo Crivella confirms that the public will return to the city's football stadiums on the first weekend of October, the most popular Rio de Janeiro club, Flamengo, suffers from a outbreak of coronavirus cases.
"In total, the club has seven athletes diagnosed in the delegation," the team said through its Twitter account on Monday.
And this Tuesday they added that the doctor Márcio Tannure and the member of professional football, Juan Santos, also tested positive.
O Clube de Regatas do Flamengo received in this second-fair (21) at the last counterprova two exams carried out without a list.
Or the result was positive for Covid-19.
No total, or there were seven athletes diagnosed in the delegation.
- Flamengo (@Flamengo) September 21, 2020
As the club clarified,
all those infected are asymptomatic, are isolated in the concentration at the Hilton Hotel
and assisted by the team's medical department.
Although the institution did not release the list of players who tested positive in the PCR samples carried out as part of the prior protocol determined by Conmebol to play the games, according to the Brazilian press, the infected footballers are the full-
backs Filipe Luis, Matheuzinho and Mauricio Isla ,
midfielder and captain
Diego Ribas
and attackers
Bruno Henrique, Michael and Vitinho
, the last to test positive.
O Clube de Regatas do Flamengo informs that the doctor Márcio Tannure and Juan Santos, a member of the soccer department, presented symptoms of Covid-19 at the last second-fair (21).
You go through tests and the result was positive.
- Flamengo (@Flamengo) September 22, 2020
The group of sick leave is joined by striker
Gabigol
, his greatest figure, due to a muscle injury, and defender Gustavo Henrique, suspended.
The situation led the Catalan coach Domènec Torrent to summon the youth João Lucas, Natan, Guilherme Bala and Rodrigo Muniz, who got on a plane this Monday in Rio de Janeiro to Guayaquil but
had to return to their place of origin due to that the flight did not have the permits to enter the airspace of Peru.
In the afternoon they waited for authorization to see if they arrived on time for the game time.
It is worth remembering that
"Mengao"
arrived a week ago in Quito for the clash with the local Independiente del Valle, in which they suffered a hard 5-0 defeat last Thursday for the third day of Group A.
With that defeat, the current Libertadores champion ranks second in Group A with 6 points, behind Independiente del Valle (9) and above the Colombian Junior (3) and Barcelona (0).
Beyond
Conmebol's intention to play yes or yes on the scheduled day and time
, on Tuesday at noon, Guayaquil health officials went to the hotel where Flamengo is concentrating to get up to speed on the situation and reported there that they
did not recommend the realization of the match.
When seeing that the maximum entity of South American soccer did not give the arm to twist, they
decided to temporarily disable the stadium in which it had to play.
For the moment, if the Flamengo youths do not arrive, the Brazilian team will have 17 players available, the 11 starters and six, half of the maximum allowed, for the substitute bank.
JCH.
