Alarm: outbreak of the pandemic hits European football – Ovation – 12/17/2021

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Six footballers from Real Madrid (Luka Modric, Marcelo, Marco Asensio, Gareth Bale, Andriy Lunin Y Rodrygo Goes) and the coach’s assistant and son, Davide Ancelotti They tested positive for covid, adding to the wave of infections that Spain suffers. And that the crisis that the Premier League English, the Bundesliga German and the Austrian league for the outbreak of the pandemic.

The Premier suspended five games this weekend due to the covid outbreaks that are occurring in the competition. The postponed encounters are Southampton-Brentford, Watford-Crystal Palace, West Ham United-Norwich City Y Everton-Leicester City, Besides of Manchester City before him Brighton Saturday, which was suspended in the early afternoon. In total, the Premier postponed nine games for a week.

LaLiga Spanish is studying reactivating some measures of force that it imposed on the return to the tournament a year and a half ago, after the first confinement. For example, the obligation to test before each day, something that is now up to each club, and the displacements of the teams in bubble mode.

The President of UEFA, Alexander Ceferin, asked all players to get vaccinated against covid, a request that the agency will reinforce with a video to promote vaccination and reduce the risk of infection.

For example, it was learned that 25% of the players of the English Football League (comprising the second to fourth division of English football) has no intention of getting vaccinated.

The UEFA It also analyzes activating a 7,000 million euro aid package for European clubs, which would be financed by the American bank Citygroup, for fear of the problems that the expansion of the variant may cause. Omicron.

It would be a way to alleviate the economic effects that the pandemic has had on European clubs, after many months of losses due to closed-door games and compensation to television operators, for figures that UEFA estimated at 9,000 million euros.

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