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Sent to Castel Volturno
Napoli will not play against Juventus tonight. In the end, it was the turn of the health authorities of the Campania region to stop the Azzurri’s flight to Turin. And it matters little that Juventus show that it is ready for a game: “Tonight we will be on the field according to the calendar.” Unlikely that by Laurentiis order your people to fly today. Even if the Lega Calcio, until yesterday afternoon, had not yet postponed the game. Then Zielinski and Costi, Giuntoli’s collaborator, yesterday also tested positive for Covid 19 Diamond. The fear is that it is in progress, exactly like everyone else. Genoa last week, an escalation of infections completely out of control. And so, at the end of the epidemiological investigation carried out by the Asl Napoli 2 Nord prevention department, led by the general manager Antonio D’Amore, the Asl 1 Center communicates to Naples the quarantine of the Azzurri players residing in its territory. Reason why the team was stopped while they were boarding the bus that was supposed to take them to Capodichino.
It is 7 pm Too high – for health professionals – the risk and the possibility that the players are positive and can infect other people. A provision issued in an emergency situation, in a territory where new cases and the epidemiological curve are growing. What Napoli interprets as a stop at the start. So much so that it is De Laurentiis who tells everyone to go home. A decision that not only explodes the big game tonight, but also puts Napoli in serious trouble for the future: because since yesterday the team is in fiduciary isolation. “For at least 14 days” it is written in the provision. We will have to wait for the next two shocks before we can understand when the team can train again. Certainly not until Wednesday. But it is clear that there should be other positive aspects, it is difficult to return to Castel Volturno in a short time. In addition, there is a ban on leaving the Region (no national team will be able to reach their retreats, but Milik flew away in the morning), with the obligation to repeat the tests (also a serological test) and with many doubts about how to move in the next days waiting for the next buffer, scheduled for tomorrow.
The way Naples is locked in is clearly eye-catching: but Gattuso, managers and many footballers are genuinely concerned by what they believe to be a concerning outbreak in the locker room. Because even before learning of Elmas’s positivity, around 4 in the afternoon, there was in the group the conviction that those from Genoa had been innocently slanderers. On the other hand, De Laurentiis had already moved in the afternoon with Lega, Figc, Juventus and a sports judge, warning of the ban that the health authorities were about to dictate. In fact, all part of Zielinski’s positivity: it is his case that triggered the follow-up of the Asl Napoli 2 Nord doctors (the Pole lives in Varcaturo). Hence the indications of the contacts: colleagues. When the news of Elmas’s positivity reached the department, the measure that would have stopped Napoli had already begun. De Laurentiis had been in contact with Gattuso all day, trying to understand what the team’s climate was like. And the coach explained that it was mentally difficult to think of Juventus in these dangerous conditions.
It was an absurd 14 hours. Start at 8 am with tampons. The third retreat in five days. Canon’s doctor decided, together with Gattuso, to take an additional precautionary measure: wait for the test results before the final training session on Saturday, which was originally scheduled for 10. And so, the players, then the players. buffer They went to home. Then return to Castel Volturno at 3.30 pm. There, all together awaited the answers from the Polyclinic. At one point there was a “hooray” because the negativity of the whole group had been communicated by mistake. But four results were still missing. And one of these brought the cold down: Elmas positive. The footballer was in the locker room, waiting to know the outcome. He too, like Zielinski the day before, completely asymptomatic. There is much concern around the Pole, who did not show symptoms yesterday either: because on Wednesday he was at the Giugliano police station for a document and here he had himself photographed (hugged) with some agents. There, too, a state of alert was triggered.
Football in the (dark) times of Covid is like this. Besides, neither Juventus is in good shape: why two executives are positive and today even the Bianconeri have to undergo hyssop. What Naples should have done this morning at the Turin hotel a stone’s throw from the Shroud. The climate between the two clubs is heavy. It is fair to clarify that if Napoli had left, the players ran the risk of being denounced for breach of an administrative order. The regulation of October 2 of the Lega Calcio, however, speaks clearly: “without prejudice to the provisions of state or local authorities.” But the weather is not clear. For Juventus, that ASL arrangement does not prevent Napoli from leaving: the hypothesis that the defeat could be aired is, incredibly, concrete.
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