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Barça's big problem when football resumes

Published:5/05/2020 - 07:55h

Updated:5/05/2020 - 11:50h

The resumption of the official parties could give in few weeks and the medical services of the Barça foresee an important plague of injuries

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The past month of March, the world of the football detained owing to the coronavirus, that by those dates already was considered a global pandemia of which it was necessary to cut the propagation. Now, at the beginning of the month of May, already is foreseen the turn to the trainings, as well as a possible resumption of the national and international competitions in summer.

Nevertheless, in the FC Barcelona fear an important problem when the official parties have returned to the calendar. According to the informations desveladas by the newspaper 'Ace', an internal report of the medical services of the Barcelona club desvela the high risk that will have the players to suffer injuries after two months of confinement and in front of a hypothetical turn to the high competition.

Said report desvelaría that, in the best of the cases, the forecast of the medical services esteem "between five to ten injuries" only in the first month of competition. It is thus that insists in doing an important task of prevention for readaptar the body of each footballer and do specific work to warn damages in "the isquiotibiales and the articulations".

The report also resumiría the reasons of the big risk of injuries. Some of them are the inactivity of two months in spite of the personal work of each player, deficiency in the protocol of trainings of LaLiga, absence of friendly to help to take rhythm of competition, cluttered calendar that will not allow the muscular rest of the footballers, high temperatures of the summer and mental pressure for playing all the season in two months.

The problem added of the Barça

The problems exposed previously can affect to absolutely all the teams in his turn to the football, but there is a key factor that it is necessary to add: the staff of the FC Barcelona is one of the shortest of LaLiga and Quique Setién only has of 19 footballers of the first team, being one of them Ousmane Dembélé, lesionado of long length.​ The margin in front of a new plague of injuries will be very narrow.

It is necessary to remember, also, that what will live will be the more resembled a start of season, that is when more risk of injury have the players. Without going more far, Messi (sóleo twice), Net (escafoides left hand), Suárez (sóleo), Dembélé (biceps femoral twice) and Junior (ligament knee), Umtiti (foot), Jordi Alba (biceps femoral) and Ansu Fati (sinew rotuliano) lesionaron between August and September. A plague of injuries of which already there is fear that repeat ...