Another handball season starting under the shadow of Covid-19. Although with an attempt for normality to return to the sport, with the permission of 50 percent of the capacity of the occupied venues, SARS CoV-2 does not give truce to the players, causing an outbreak in the Sporting squad, which saw the Parnasse Infernal Tournament, pre-season competition organized by the French USAM Nîmes, become a nightmare before starting; and forcing Benfica to travel yesterday to Switzerland – where today starts activities in the European League against Kriens-Luzern – without goalkeeper Sergey Hernández, who tested positive.
Of the two teams that faced each other in the last duel of the Viseu International Tournament, Sporting was the most affected, as, in addition to the six confirmed cases, it was still awaiting, according to A BOLA, the test result to the other elements of the squad guided by Ricardo Costa to ascertain the size of the outbreak.
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