THE BALL – “The teams should have stopped” (Benfica)



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Jorge Jesús again pointed to criticism of the way in which the authorities are handling the pandemic and said that, given the risk of contagion during travel, the competitions of national teams should have been suspended. At stake, the forward Darwin who returned infected from Uruguay.

“There was nothing we could do. They are dangers of national teams due to travel. The teams, especially the South American ones, are not as organized as the big teams in Europe where there is a daily control of the athletes so that they stay in the bubble and do not walk in spaces, or coexist with other people. Darwin was one of those players. This is difficult to control. The national teams should have stopped. And the proof is that everyone who comes from the teams brings the virus. There are things that do not we can control, but not everything is bad. It is one that no longer has problems with the virus. In Brazil I had this problem: a player who contracted a virus no longer needed to do tests for the games, he entered it directly, “he said at a conference of press.

In addition to Darwin, Weigl also tested positive. The German, however, did not leave Portugal to represent the team.

«We have to know how to live with Covid in all professions. Players are in a bubble and are checked every three days, and even then cases arise. Darwin has already returned infected with the Uruguay team, which has many cases. Weigl don’t know if he was among us. It may have come out.

“Soccer teams are an example for all professions in the world. They have the privilege of testing every three days. Was Weigl detected? Outside (isolation), the rest (of the squad) all tested and all negative. And this is how we have to work while there is no vaccine: test, isolate and prevent. You don’t need science to deal with the virus. First, it is necessary to try, something that is not done in Portugal. This is how it should be, but there is no financial power to test everyone. Without evidence, no one knows, “he concluded.

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