Since 28th April, test COVID-19 for the players of LaLiga

According to the last informations of the Chain COPE and other media, LaLiga already has requested to each one of the clubs that compose it a list of players, technicians and hard-working so that they are subjected to the test of the coronavirus from the next 28 April. The aim is to have the security that any member of a team was infected before a future return of the football of elite in the country.

LaLiga, besides, has foreseen to modify his protocol so that the concentrations to which have to subject the teams begin a week before the first party, in the case that it can restart the competition, and no 15 days before as it planned initially.

With this decision, pretends isolate to the staff with a diet of concentrations to avoid that some player infect , and precisely this point is one of the big focuses of conflict between the players of First and Second Division and the patronal of clubs. The footballers opondrían to day of today to the plan of the concentrations proposed by LaLiga, when wanting to follow the routine to be with his familiar.

The patronal understands that the fact that the teams concentrate in his sportive cities or hotels will reduce the risk of contagion, and from here his decision. Already it has hired to the private company SYNLAB so that it make the test during the week of 28 April, first the PCR corresponding (LaLiga already has some 15.000 in his can) and afterwards the test serológicos and fast test, although they are not so reliable like the first.

The footballers are not convinced to go back to play

For now the players prioritise the health, and have his doubts that it can return to the competition with all the guarantees, there is or no public in the stadiums. They will return to the trainings when it authorise it the Ministry of Health, although between them exists a "big worry" in front of the sanitary conditions that will find when they go back to the activity.

The captains and professional players like this would have manifested it to the president of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE), David Aganzo, during the telematic meeting that kept this past Tuesday. In this context, between the footballers breathes a "absolute union" in that the health is the "fundamental question" in front of an eventual return to the competition, that will see if it finish producing or no this season.