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The positivity of fourteen coronavirus found this week among players and staff of the Genoa football team is calling into question the regular development of the third day of the Serie A championship. Genoa should play on Saturday afternoon in Turin, but At this time it is with half a team in quarantine – positivity was confirmed on Tuesday – and all the others are still in preventive isolation, although for now they have not come out more. On the other hand, Napoli, which was Genoa’s last rival in the league, trained regularly at Castel Volturno but is waiting for the swab cycle to be carried out on Tuesday to all members: if positive, their match Sunday against Juventus could be at risk.
According to Genoa president Enrico Preziosi, his team is not in a position to face Turin on Saturday night and is confident of a postponement that will finally be decided this afternoon by the extraordinary council convened by Lega Serie A, meeting at 15.00 hours to occupy the one seems like a loophole in the Italian professional football health protocol: with how much positivity in a team should a championship match be postponed? In fact, in recent days the teams with a positive player have played normally, after having quarantined the infected and after having tested the others.
Neither the health protocol nor the federal regulations indicate a minimum limit of available and negative players that each team must present in order to play a game. Elsewhere, this limit is explicitly clarified: UEFA, for example, requires each team to be able to play in one of its cups with at least 13 available players, while in the Premier League one more, including players from teams from reservation. In France, however, the limit has been raised to 20 available players out of 35 registered. In Italy, this regulatory vacuum “inherited” from the German Bundesliga, where decisions continue on a case-by-case basis, required extraordinary advice, which today will decide what to do.
As for the rest of the guidelines provided by the health protocol, since yesterday, two cycles of tampons per week are no longer required, generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but only one, carried out by each team two days before the games. Instead, serological tests are carried out monthly. In case of positivity, the clubs refer to the local health authorities, which apply their standard protocol valid for all infected people.
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