Alexis and Vidal: the other possible casualties that complicate Rueda

If in the first double date of the Qualifiers there were multiple casualties for the Red, in the next one where they will face Peru and Venezuela the picture looks even worse. This in the face of the multiple contagions in Italian football, causing the country’s health authorities to take the drastic measure of preventing the departure of players from schools that have been affected by positive cases of Covid-19.

According to Italian media, Inter, Fiorentina, Sassuolo, Genoa, Lazio and Roma will not be able to send their players to the respective teams because they have presented cases of coronavirus. José Callejón in the case of Erick Pulgar’s team, and Daniele Padelli in the squad made up of Alexis Sánchez and Arturo Vidal, although the latter two lack confirmation. What’s more, from their environment they assure that they have not yet been notified of news, and although the press reports the measure, the local health authority has not confirmed it.

Words that practically confirm the case of the neroazurros are those of Giuseppe Marotta, executive director of the club: “There is a strong regret: I invoke the intervention of the Ministry of Sport. This situation is unfair, it leads to an alteration in the regularity of the competitions … It is absurd that the ASl behaves differently from Rome 1 or Rome 2, or from Milan to Florence. Despite the fact that there are strict protocols and that we all must respect them with reason, there is the shadow area in the lack of centrality of this management: and each ASL becomes central in the management of the clubs. My alarm a few days ago becomes even more important, with the request to reduce the commitments of the teams, “he told Ansa.

If it is a definitive measure during the FIFA date, Reinaldo Rueda would have to apply emergency calls. The losses of Sánchez, Vidal and Pulgar would be added to those of Gary Medel and Charles Aránguiz, both due to injury.

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