Ronaldo, Spadafora: «He violated protocol, Juve didn’t do it». What the rules say

Ronaldo’s trip to Portugal – he left Turin with a negative cushion, returned positive – ends up in the sights of Minister Spadafora. In his opinion, there is something irregular in the behavior of the Juventus champion. They ask you: did you violate the anti-Covid protocol by going back and forth? He responds: “Yes, I think so, if there have not been specific authorizations from the health authority.” A sentence, the one pronounced on Radio 1, which immediately arouses controversy, because when Cristiano returned, on Wednesday, he actually followed all the necessary procedures: departure from Lisbon by private ambulance plane, transfer to his Piedmontese residence by ambulance. who picked it up at Caselle. “He followed the legislation,” comments the ASL of Turin. After all, this path is the same as that of the FIGC in bringing infected under-21s from Iceland back to Italy.

The complaint Spadafora, however, was not referring to Ronaldo’s return to Italy, but his own. departure, which took place 11 days ago, on the morning of Monday 5. At that time, Juve was “in the bubble” due to the positivity found in two members of the squad outside the team, however Cristiano and six other players to have left the JHotel: one did it for go home (Buffon), he others to reach the retreats of their respective national teams (Besides CR7 also Dybala, Cuadrado, Demiral, Bentancur and Danilo). An irregular procedure according to Roberto Testi, director of the department of prevention of Asl, which is not surprising reported the behavior of the seven players to the Prosecutor’s Office. The names were communicated to him by Juve herself, while Azzurri Bonucci and Chiellini were late to retire from Italy, after having had a negative test result. Respecting, they do, the rules. The minister clarified: “It was the same company that informed the ASL that some players had broken the fiduciary isolation without having the authorization.”