Chronicle of the last week: why the FIGC has opened an investigation into Lazio



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The biancoceleste assaults a few hours after the Champions League match with Zenith. The Lazio ended up in the sights of the FIGC Federal Prosecutor’s Office “to learn about violations of health protocols intended to contain the Covid-19 epidemic approved by FIGC and validated by the Government Authority.” The investigation was born “in light of the alternating positivity of players like Immobile, Leiva and Strakosha, available for the championship games (the first two played the second half in Turin, the goalkeeper stayed on the bench, ed) and stopped of an alleged positivity instead of UEFA. ”Positivity contested by the club through an official statement issued last night. However, according to the inspectors under the orders of the prosecutor Chinè, what happened in the last week is still too strange, that we will relive step by step.

Monday October 26 the team group undergoes the Uefa tampon cycle in Formello, two days after the commitment of Used. They are not carried out by Radu, Lulic, Escalante, Strakosha, Cataldi, Vavro and not even Luiz Felipe and Leiva, who have been in isolation since the day before due to suspicious symptoms (fever above 37 and as a precaution they were not allowed to enter the sports center). They seemed to have been the usual routine checks, instead, it is the turning point. Because the next morning, at the finish line, you don’t see Armini, Luis Alberto, Lazzari, Immobile, Djavan Anderson and Pereira. They repeated the tests after they had tested positive the day before: among them only the former Manchester United gets the negativity and authorization to leave – on Wednesday morning – for Belgium and play at night. Lazio drew 1-1 and returned home with satisfaction, aware of not having sunk despite 14 absences.

Friday the 30th is another crucial day. In the early morning, more than 70 swabs are made (also to relatives and in the drive-in) to understand the situation just over 48 hours before the championship match with Torino. With at least 10 positivity, the company could have used the wild card to postpone the game, which will be played regularly because after the results Inzaghi will recover Strakosha, Leiva, Luiz Felipe and especially Ciro Immobile, in his own goal against the grenade . All of them performed both a swab on Friday and Saturday and “all the tests – read the statement published by Lazio on Sunday – repeated yesterday, in compliance with the applicable regulations, confirmed the negativity of the group of teams.”

So, after the crazy comeback against Turin, we entered the week of the Champions League. And according to protocol, on Monday, UEFA makes the team redo the usual swab, which brings some problems at Immobile, Leiva and Strakosha. The three, usually available the day before in Serie A and yesterday in training the day before, are then arrested and do not leave for Saint Petersburg. Given this discrepancy, this is where the federal prosecutor decides to deepen the investigations, which began last week, when three inspectors had twice risen to the head in Lazio to talk with the president. Lotito me Ivo Pulcini, club health officer. Some doubts would have arisen, both about the way to process the swabs and about the management of the positives and the “bubble”. The club trusts and is sure of having acted in accordance with the rules, as explained in the note published yesterday afternoon: “SS Lazio is in close contact with the state authorities and with the national and international sports institutions with which they has been in dialogue for several days on the matter of applicable standards and protocols. “



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