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First Feirense-Desp. Chaves, then Ac. Viseu-Academician. Two of the first three games of the Second League start day just over six months after its suspension ended up being postponed to a date to be set, the second being decided with a margin of almost 12 hours and the first banned 24 minutes later. of the scheduled start time. And it was this detail that also led the League of Clubs to convene a emergency meeting with all clubs of the professional competitions this Saturday morning (10am), including in preparation for the meeting that will take place next Monday with the DGS.
DGS forces the League to postpone Feirense-Chaves (II League) at the last minute due to positive cases
Let’s start with the known cases this Friday. In Ac. Viseu-Académica, and to avoid another soap opera, the process was practical and fast: the players of the local team did the usual detection tests, three positive cases were found and the head of ACES Dão Lafões, already online with the DGS, determined that the Viseans should not attend the game, even because of the situation that currently lives in the county with a current image of active community broadcast – A factor also safeguarded in the latest guide published by the DGS that placed football, as the main type of flag, for example, with a “medium risk”.
Before, in Feirense-Desp. Chaves, the movie was different. As foreseen in point 8 of the Professional Football Resumption Plan, the two teams rehearsed 48 hours before the game and, this Friday morning, match day, the transmontanos announced the existence of four positive cases, two in players. (Samu and Raphael Guzzo) and two assistant coaches (Pedro Machado and Tiago Castro), but they still went to Santa Maria da Feira to debut in the Second League. Because? Because the authorities will not have made any reference to the need for quarantine or prophylactic isolation to the rest of the elements, as happened this week for example in the Portugal Under-21 match against Belarus.
U21 national team match against Belarus postponed due to positive Covid-19 cases
Then, everything went in the best possible way: the team that Carlos Pinto was coaching continued on its way, arrived at the stadium an hour and a half before the game, got equipped, did the usual warm-up, entered the field, but when the game was about to end initiated, there was an indication from the League of Clubs to have a waiting period after being communicated to the organ by ACES do Alto Tâmega e Barroso that The conditions for a game were not met. “La Liga Portugal, and despite the conditions for the performance of the game, according to the Recovery Plan and in compliance with Law 3 of the Laws of the Game, now undertakes to investigate the reasons that led to the existence of these cases in GD Chaves staff ”, he stressed.
After Keys with four positives, two between players. The premiere with Feirense tonight is not in doubt
The first indication of ACES of Alto Tâmega and Barroso arrived shortly before 8:00 p.m., time for the start of the match, and the minutes signed by official Rui Capucho entered the League in official terms at 8:24 p.m. However, and according to the newspaper Record, the regional health authority will have sent a email to the flavian group where he said that, given the four positive cases found, the squad should quarantine. The Desp. Chaves, for his part, assures that he has not received any communication in this regard from ACES.
In the case of the first day of the Second League and with the maximum step to start next week, and with a scheduled meeting between Pedro Proença, president of the League, and António Lacerda Sales, Secretary of State for Health, the agency decided to call an emergency meeting for this Saturday morning where what happened the day before will be discussed, because there is an idea that, given the current situation of the pandemic in the country, there will be the possibility that more cases will arise -and as the calendar in the 2020/21 season there is little room for many postponements, the focus is on finding solutions and, in parallel, creating mechanisms so that there are no suspensions of the game with the teams on the field. At the same time, another topic can be addressed: the absence of public in the stadiums, that will be maintained and that affects the clubs in economic terms, as they are already preparing plans for the return of 30% of the capacity only with the local fans.
