A player on the team recently returned from South Africa, where omikron was first discovered.
“We are all in quarantine except the youth team that did not play last Saturday. 44 are isolated at home “, says a spokesperson for the club.
The news comes two days after Belenense’s scandalous match against top team Benfica. The match was played despite the fact that Belenenses could only line up with nine players due to the corona outbreak.
The guests led 7-0 after the first half. After the break, only seven home players came out for games because two refused. A few minutes into the second half, goalkeeper João Monteiro stepped down with an alleged injury – whereupon the referee interrupted the event.
The chairmen of both Benfica and Belenenses blamed the league and the health authority DGS for playing the match at all.
DGS says in a statement that it is not up to them to postpone matches, and the Portuguese Football Association said this weekend that Belenenses has not made a formal request that the match be postponed.
But club chairman Rui Pedro Soares replied that on Saturday they announced this and received the answer that the team had to line up, otherwise they would lose on the walkover and risk being punished with a point deduction.
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