Agnelli: “Clear protocol, sports loyalty is needed”

Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus, spoke with Sky Sport about the Juventus-Napoli case. “I don’t have to get an idea of ​​the situation or not,” he said. The fundamental thing is to clarify: we have protocols that are very clear, and it is foreseeable that it would have had a positive case in Covid. Sooner or later it happens to everyone. At that moment you rely on the protocol and you know what to do. You go into fiduciary isolation in an ASL-agreed structure and by doing so you can train and play the game. very clearly, you know what happens, we did that yesterday when two people tested positive. We isolate ourselves in our structure, our technical center. It is not a question of the football system, the protocol was studied by the Federation with the Government, of course it is a “living” regulation, with the days that we discover aspects that had not been taken into account, the cases will be identified each time and the document will be refined. It is clear that the priority is the protection of public health, in this case we have a protocol that allows us to carry out our work. The important thing is to always have that spirit of sports loyalty that is the basis of everything ”.

the message

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Contacts with De Laurentiis? “We sent each other a message, he wrote to me – said Agnelli -. I replied that Juventus complies with the regulations. I wanted to postpone the match, a request that may be legitimate. But in all industries there are regulations and those to which we must comply. If we do not comply with the regulations it is the first mistake we make not as athletes, but as citizens. How would we have behaved in reverse? I would have gone to Naples, but the ASL would not have issued that statement. The ASL does not intervene if it were observe the protocol, if I do not observe it, the ASL intervenes. The ASL depends on the Ministry of Health, the short-circuit is internal, not external. The protocol seems very well done, but I yield to the competent authorities, in the awareness that health Public comes first. But if we want to complete sporting events, not just the football championship, we need to know how to manage the cases and the positivity that we can identify the frequency of the controls to which we are s subdued “. And in the end he specified: “The 3-0 at the table? I prefer to win on the field. Always.”

the anomaly

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At the press conference, then, Agnelli added: “We are not facing a new case, Juve-Napoli was the anomaly. In recent weeks and also this week, games have been played with teams that have had positive cases in the team, both at home as outside. What is in order is the ministerial circular, the local authority does not send. The sports regulations say that if a team does not appear, it faces disciplinary sanctions. From this point of view, the sports judge will speak tomorrow. ” And then: “We applaud the possibility at the next assembly of the Lega to identify a correct and serious partner to whom to hand over the management of the commercial development of the League, excluding us all.”

the medical officer

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Luca Stefanini, head of the Juventus medical team, also spoke with Sky Sport: “The CTS note does not contain anything new, they refer to the circular of the Ministry of Health. The moment a positive Covid is found, the bubble must be created immediately. This is followed by the indications of the different protocols, such as the execution of the swabs, which today gave negative results. Having respected all the steps, we are ready to play. Didn’t this happen to Napoli? No I know I mean. I limited myself to strictly applying the protocol to the letter. For the rest, I don’t know what happened with Naples. ”