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Colombian soccer insists that the competition in the I-2020 League must return, despite the health crisis the country is experiencing due to the coronavirus. The Dimayor and the Colombian Football Federation presented the government with a safety and health protocol, which aims to give all the guarantees to the players for a possible resumption of the First Division championship.
However, President Iván Duque has been blunt in his position that football cannot return very soon, even behind closed doors, since he does not want to risk that athletes are affected by the pandemic.
Beyond the government’s decisions, Dimayor and the Federation have insisted and made available their protocol, which has tried to be very thorough in every detail, but which has also left gaps and contradictions.
An investigation carried out by the journalist Sebastián Heredia, from ‘RCN Radio’, raised many doubts and alerted the hiring of Dimayor and the Federation to the specialists who prepared the protocol, and who would be in charge of carrying out the covid-19 tests on football players.
According to the investigation, the protocol was developed by a Canadian company, “called Athletics and Health Solutions Inc., whose incorporation record does not appear on the internet. The company is also not on the Canadian government’s federal register, nor on the Canadian government’s business register. Likewise, the credentials of said company or the executive members do not appear. ”
Tracking the company leads to another name, QuestCap Inc., which is “a Canadian investment group that bought 49% of the company to finance the contract contract that would be carried out with Dimayor and the FCF. This business was done on April 17, 2020, three days after Athletics and Health Solutions Inc had signed a non-binding contract with Dimayor to execute the security protocol. ”
“A&H is an emerging health and wellness company that works to create a comprehensive program to detect, manage and minimize the spread of viruses in large groups of people, specializing in the sports and entertainment industries,” is the description of the company that signed the contract to develop said protocol with Dimayor.
Finally, Heredia asks a question that leaves more doubts than certainties.
“Why did the Colombian Football Federation and Dimayor sign a (non-binding) contract, presenting a security protocol, with an unknown company (A&H) but which in turn will execute a program designed by Glenco Medical Corp, which is directed by Glenn Copeland –a podiatrist-, who in turn assured in an interview that he is not an infectious disease specialist but that he will seek to surround himself with immunological doctors for said protocol? The above, in addition to being an advisor to QuestCap Inc, the investment group that financed A&H to carry out said contract and that, in any case, with the endorsement of the corresponding authorities, will execute the protocol presented earlier this week to the government. national”.
