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PUT OUT OF PLAY: Coach Arne Sandstø and Jerv’s team are in 10-day quarantine. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB Scanpix
The first division team Jerv will not be able to play soccer for a time after a player has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Norwegian Football Association today decided to postpone three games in the OBOS league after a Jerv player tested positive for a crown. Therefore, the total number of players is quarantined for 10 days.
These matches are postponed:
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21.09: HamKam-Jerv
25.09: Jerv-Ullensaker / Kisa
28.09: Lillestrøm-Jerv.
This is the first case of corona infection in top-level football here at home leading to postponement of matches.
– We are prepared for this to happen and we expected it. At the same time, one has been very unlucky because the player in question has been tested three times. Only the third test was positive, the head of NFF’s competition department, Nils Fisketjønn, tells VG.
Previously, if a player tested positive, they should be isolated. It happened when Branns Gilli Rólantsson tested positive for the coronavirus in mid-August.
Then the rules were tightened and it was decided that the entire team of players should be quarantined.
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– We learned of a positive test in the group on Friday. So we shut down the group and quarantine everyone. Players isolate themselves, says general manager Trond Christoffersen at FK Jerv to Agderposten.
NFF emphasizes that Jerv has followed current crown protocols and, in consultation with the Medical Council, will consider whether to implement a tightening of the rules to test new players in troops.
Although all protocols and routines have been followed, both clubs and the NFF have prepared for the possibility of contagion in one or more teams.
