03/26/2021 4:11 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 03/26/2021 4:11 PM
The coronavirus pandemic gave Argentina a truce in the summer but a new wave of infections advances with the approach of winter and the delay in the vaccination plan.
And
First Division football is no stranger
.
The positive results that directly affect the teams put the Professional League Cup on the ropes, where
only 9 out of 26 clubs
did not report Covid-19 cases.
After six dates of the competition
,
74 infections
were confirmed
among players, technical bodies and leaders, of which 20 occurred only in Sarmiento, who also has his coach,
Mario Sciacqua
, eight years old,
hospitalized because of the virus.
days after having tested positive for the weekly test.
It is followed by Racing, with 14 (12 players) spread over several rounds in March, and Huracán with 12 detected in February.
While the only death was registered in the Board of Trustees, which lost its president, Miguel Angel Hollman (71).
This time the cases that joined and hit, once again, the sport are those of Silvio Romero,
Braian Martínez
,
Héctor Fértoli
and
Mario Sciacqua
.
Silvio Romero celebrating his goal against Boca Photo: Marcelo Carroll
Romero, on the side of Independiente, will be a sensitive loss in the duel against Boca Juniors, on Sunday from 21, while on the opposite side, Fértoli, will not be available in the oldest Argentine classic when Racing faces River also on Sunday at 6.30pm.
Both are isolated in their homes.
Instead, Sarmiento de Junín's coach, Mario Sciacqua,
had to be hospitalized for better control
.
His team is already the most affected with 20 infected, after Federico Vismara threw a positive result on Thursday night.
As the midfielder declared on Tuesday on the Planeta 947 radio program, the first to contract the virus was the campus doctor, Mario Rodríguez, despite the fact that he had already been vaccinated.
And, fortunately, most of those affected are asymptomatic.
🏥 Our coach, Mario Sciacqua, was admitted for COVID 19. He is stable, but is being controlled for the safety and tranquility of all.
💪 Force Mario! #DaleVerde 🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/vH8GF1c6Nz
- Club Atlético Sarmiento (@CASarmientoOf) March 25, 2021
In the last hours more cases were added.
Rosario Central reported that in the PCR tests
the psychologist of the professional staff
, Pablo Sucurrat, tested positive, so the field aides of the
Kily
González, Horacio Carbonari and Diego Ordóñez, had to be isolated for maintaining close contact.
Finally, amid the controversy that would be resolved between Banfield and Lanús, the team led by Javier Sanguinetti suffered two last-minute casualties for the next match against Aldosivi, on Saturday at 4.15pm in Mar del Plata.
The most sensitive is that of goalkeeper
Mauricio Arboleda
, who is isolated because he is in close contact with a positive case in his family environment;
the other is
Alexis Sosa
, who is without symptoms but tested positive.
Aldosivi, Atlético Tucumán, Central Córdoba, Defensa y Justicia, Godoy Cruz, Newell's, Talleres, Unión and Vélez are the only ones that remain on the sidelines -Boca and Board of Trustees did not register any cases of players either- although the threat that contagions could spread is latent.
Meanwhile, Conmebol insists on the presence of the public in the stadiums of Argentina during the Copa América that will be held jointly with Colombia and the AFA imagines a gradual return to the local tournament from July or August, just when it could be reached. a new peak of infections in the country.
