Cristiano Ronaldo, Christmas holidays in Dubai without quarantine obligation

The post before a long trip, which will surely generate new controversies. “We closed our 2020 with a poor performance and a result anything but acceptable. We are Juventus and we cannot accept anything less than excellence on the field! In the end we will celebrate again with our fans!”: That’s how Cristiano Ronaldo tried through social networks shake up Juventus and reassure the fans (“Trust us, we will do it”) before disconnecting for a few days. The team is on vacation and will stay until Monday 28, when training will resume. A handful of days that Cristiano decided to take advantage of despite the complicated moment due to Covid. CR7 has already left (as documented by the stories of his girlfriend Georgina) with the whole family: private flight to Dubai, where he will participate in the Globe Soccer Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on December 27 and the Portuguese forward is one of the three finalists for the title of best player of the year with Messi and Lewandowski. In Dubai there will be the usual parade of players, coaches and agents and Cristiano will not be the only one from Juventus: three or four other teammates had the same idea, flying in the heat and in a place where there are fewer bans than in Italy.

NO QUARANTINE

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The funny thing is that players, unlike the common citizen, will not have problems to return to training immediately. In fact, the Dpcm foresees that between January 21 and 6, those who return from abroad must remain in isolation. Decision taken to discourage travel in a period, that of the Christmas holidays, considered very delicate, so much so that the whole of Italy will once again be a red or orange zone (depending on the days), therefore with a ban on leaving the municipality, until the Befana. .

VACATION AND RETURN

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Players, however, follow other paths. In recent months, an isolated training method has emerged, with regular tampons, now typical of football. For the Turin ASL, always consulted by Juventus from March until today, there are no problems: players can remain isolated and have contact only with the team group, making regular swabs upon their return in the following days. Therefore, those who go on vacation abroad on their return will not have to suspend the activity to do the quarantine but will only have to respect the isolation: not to normal social life, yes to sports activity and games.

PROTOCOL AND DISPUTE

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Okay, but it’s easy to imagine that footballers’ vacations will cause discussion, especially at a time like this when many families in Italy won’t be able to get together. On the other hand, it is not the first time that Ronaldo has moved during Covid, which generates controversy. Cristiano had returned to Turin from Portugal after discovering that he had Covid (a contract with the national team) to do the isolation at home. Even the Sports Minister, Vincenzo Spadafora, intervened in the matter. “I think he violated protocol,” he told Radio Uno, provoking the stung response of number 7: “It’s a lie, I went back to the air ambulance respecting all the procedures.” Actually Spadafora was not referring to the return (actually in order) but to the departure, because Cristiano and 4 others from Juve had left fiduciary isolation without the permission of the ASL to join the national teams. On this the federal prosecutor of the FIGC has opened a process.