The Angers club announced this Thursday, December 30 that 19 of its players had tested positive for Covid-19. Club leaders have requested a postponement of his match scheduled for January 9 against AS Saint-Etienne.
“To date, we have identified 19 positive cases in the list of 30 players filed with the LFP, of which more than 10 will not be authorized to play a match before January 10, 2022”, explained the club in a press release published on the resumption. of training.
Angers SCO requests the postponement of its match against AS Saint-Étienne. https://t.co/iQFikYNkWl
– Angers SCO (@AngersSCO) December 30, 2021
“This situation leads us to ask the LFP Commission formed for this purpose, the postponement of the match scheduled for January 9, 2022 at 3 pm against ASSE”, continued the SCO.
An “explosion of cases”
Five players had initially tested positive and excluded from the meeting against Montpellier on December 22, which ended in a severe defeat (4-1).
These players had been placed in solitary confinement until December 31, but are not allowed to resume collective training until a week after that date.
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“During the holidays, a large number of players and staff informed us of their positive tests for Covid-19. It seems obvious that the contagiousness of the variant is at the origin of this unprecedented spread in Angers SCO, which, until then, had only been little affected by this pandemic “, adds the club which evokes an” explosion “of cases .
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