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Sunday’s men’s soccer match at Superettan between Umeå and AFC Eskilstuna will be played as planned despite eleven confirmed cases of covid-19 in the local team’s A-team.
Umeå announces on his website that he has sent a request to the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) to postpone the match, but the association’s competition committee says no; The match will be played according to the current playing time on Sunday at 17:30.
“Of course it is not the decision we expected and believed in, but we are preparing for the match,” Umeå sporting director Danny Persson writes in a text message to Västerbottens-Kuriren.
SvFF decision is in line with when Herrallsvenska Helsingborg received a negative message from the competition committee at the end of August and was forced to hold the home match with Djurgården (3-1) despite a large spread of the infection in the team . The choice to play was widely criticized by the association’s own medical committee, the Helsingborg team doctor and Skåne infection control.
