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It was just under an hour before the match (click here for the match report!) When the Swiss Football Association sent out a surprising press release. Right-back Silvan Widmer was sick with Corona, as was fitness coach Oliver Riedwyl. Both would be isolated and show no symptoms.
Then all the players will be checked again on Saturday at 2pm, almost seven hours before the game, by order of the Basel-Land canton doctor. With a quick test. Since all the tests are negative, nothing gets in the way of the game at night.
Everything happens without the public noticing anything. Unlike in Germany, where before the game against Ukraine (five cases of Covid on Friday) there is a whole day of discussion about whether the health department of the Leipzig headquarters will intervene and the entire Ukrainian team is in quarantine.
The health department does not do so after all Ukrainians were screened again with a rapid test. And nothing stands in the way of our last Nations League game on Tuesday in Lucerne.
Edimilson instead of Widmer
One reason is that the Ukrainians tell the health department that no one had close contact with one of the infected, that is, 10 to 15 minutes of contact. Ukrainians are believed to have adhered to the concept of protection. Like the Swiss.
And then one puzzles how Widmer and Riedwyl become infected in a Nati phase of all things. The entire team had been tested before the Belgium game on Wednesday, Widmer and Riedwyl tested negative and, like everyone else, lived in a supposed bubble afterwards. Own plane, own hotel, without contact with the outside world. And yet they caught her somewhere. Nobody knows where.
In the national team, there are cases of Corona 9 and 10. Goalkeeping coach Patrick Foletti, another member of the squad and players Xherdan Shaqiri, Eray Cömert, Kevin Mbabu, Renato Steffen, Edimilson Fernandes and Jordan Lotomba fell ill before Widmer and Riedwyl.
Edimilson Fernandes has a chance against Spain, playing for Widmer, who recently benefited from the loss of Wolfsburg’s Kevin Mbabu.
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