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Euro 2021: isolation, exclusion, truncated preparation ... why the Covid-19 will be a player in the competition

2021-06-10T13:17:50.562Z


As the list of players affected by the coronavirus grows, it is not easy to navigate the rules related to appearance.


Sergio Busquets, and Diego Llorente for Spain.

John Fleck for Scotland.

Dejan Kulusevski and Mattias Svanberg for Sweden.

A few hours before the start of Euro 2021, the list of players who tested positive for Covid-19 is starting to grow.

And with it points to the threat of a competition plagued by the epidemic, with the risk of seeing selections weakened by absences or even prevented from playing for lack of fighters (UEFA requires 13 valid players for a match to be held. ).

The problem is all the more distressing as actors and observers alike experience the worst difficulties in defining the rules applicable in the event of the positivity of one or more players with Covid-19. Two weeks ago, Didier Deschamps mentioned an immediate exclusion from the competition for any player who tested positive, before correcting his remarks on Monday on the eve of the match against Bulgaria. It must be said that the rules in force are made even more difficult to understand by this Euro to the 11 host countries.

“It's unclear” has also reacted the coach of the Blues.

How indeed to explain that the whole of the Spanish team was placed in solitary confinement after the Busquets test, while the rest of the Swedish team continues to train after the cases of Kulusevski and Svanberg?

Nothing very readable for the general public.

Tracing, distancing ...

In reality, we must stick to two basic principles provided for in the UEFA health protocol.

  • As soon as a player is the object of a positive test, he must immediately isolate himself and comply with the rules laid down by the health authorities of the country in which he is located. In France or Spain, the isolation period is currently 10 days. But in Munich, it runs for 14 days. Which means that a player from the France team who tested positive in Germany could potentially be forced to self-isolate for 2 weeks. All this is theoretical, but it is in any case the rule in force.

  • On the other hand, as soon as a player or staff member is recognized as positive, the team's medical referent (Doctor Franck Le Gall for the Blues) can be "requested to present the results of the contact tracing program" .

    Each selection is in fact forced to comply with multiple obligations (social distancing, seating plans, identical seats on buses and planes, etc.) in order to minimize the risks of contamination and hence the appearance of contact cases.

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    For Spain, the fact that the players all had lunch together last Sunday on their day off, certainly led the leaders of La Roja to consider that the 25 selected were contact cases of Busquets, despite their negative tests. Since Llorente has also been declared positive. As for Sweden and Scotland, the respect of barrier gestures and contact tracing, coupled with negative tests from other players, was enough to consider that the remaining members of these selections were valid. With good reason at this time.

    Source: leparis

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