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As CEO Stephan Reiter explained in a press release, they are working to “put all the levers in motion as quickly as possible to end the current restrictions on our team.” After all, every player on the Salzburg team should be able to travel to their national teams. The officially imposed travel ban on interested professionals is expected to be lifted quickly.
Furthermore, they want to find out as soon as possible why the two most recent CoV tests, which were carried out in the same laboratory in Salzburg, gave different results. “We cannot leave that as it is, because it takes the extensive and professional effort of FC Red Bull Salzburg to implement the prescribed preventive measures to the point of absurdity,” Reiter said.
Talks with ÖFB about team camp
On Monday afternoon, ÖFB Sporting Director Peter Schöttel announced in response to positive test results that he would be without the three Salzburg-based Andreas Ulmer, Cican Stankovic and Albert Vallci at the current camp of the team and upcoming international matches. Schöttel had also described a display by Rapid player Maximilian Ullmann, who was affected by Sunday’s game against the “Bulls” (1: 1), as “hard to imagine”.
The Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) did not make the subsequent nominations announced for Monday night. Suddenly it no longer seemed impossible for Salzburg to join the ÖFB team. Talks and consultations were ongoing in this regard, the association said late Monday.
Austria will play an international friendly match in Luxembourg on Wednesday (8.30pm, live on ORF1), followed by the last two Nations League matches in Vienna against Northern Ireland (Sunday) and Norway (Wednesday, 8.45pm, live by ORF1).
Conflicting test results
Salzburg had initially reported Monday morning that a CoV test for the Rapid game evaluated on Friday had returned a negative result for the entire team. A series of tests conducted especially for a “double-digit number” of players selected on Saturday showed a different picture.
The affected players, whose names were not mentioned, currently have no symptoms and have already entered quarantine, the club wrote in the first broadcast of the day. The rest of the team is in team quarantine and is only allowed to travel between their home, training, or venue.
This caused a stir, especially in Hungary. The Hungarians will also rely on Dominik Szoboszlai in the play-off final for a ticket to the European Championship against Iceland on Thursday. The midfielder did not travel to his home country, but the Hungarian association announced on Monday night that Szoboszlai would join their national team.
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