An Allianz match
A positive, team returned from Lasko. The other swabs are negative but activity suspended until Sunday screening
Lorenzo Gatto
August 21, 2021
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TRIESTE The shadow of Covid on the Allianz involved in the rally in Slovenia. The six-day red-and-white in Lasko ended a day early, a friendly match with Zlatorog canceled and a hasty return home to carry out the molecular swabs and assess the situation in the team group. The alarm was triggered on Friday when a player reported the loss of taste: a symptom that alarmed the company. From the molecular confirmation carried out yesterday morning of the positivity of the player in question, the rest of the team fortunately at the moment is negative.
THE NOTE: “The outcome of the molecular swabs carried out highlighted the positivity to Covid-19 of a player who already on Friday afternoon had highlighted a malaise compatible with the symptoms of the virus – reads the press release issued yesterday -. The swabs of all other players and staff members have failed. Additional molecular swabs will be performed daily. The health conditions of the virus-positive player are currently good. Until the results of the molecular swabs tomorrow morning, the company has as a precaution suspended training ».
SUSPENDED WORKOUTS: Two days of prudent stop on the weekend, therefore, tomorrow morning everyone back to the gym to undergo the control pad. If even 48 hours after the first check the negativity of the group is confirmed, the team will be able to return to training. However, there remains the unknown of the match scheduled for Tuesday evening, in Cividale del Friuli, against Kapfenberg. «If tomorrow everything is in order, according to protocol, we will be able to take the field- underlines the president Mario Ghiacci-. In fairness we will notify the Austrian company of the situation and try to understand what they want to do. From our point of view we can’t wait to start to verify the goodness of the work done up to now but it is clear that we must also respect the will of Kapfenberg ».
COUNTERTIME: The friendlies against Zlatorog and Kapfenberg were used to verify the goodness of the work done in these first two weeks of preparation. In Lasko, during the retreat, the team trained with particular profit showing a good quality of basketball. For this it would have been important to be able to test the group even considering that the first engagement is off
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