Valencia in a state of siege with several infected players
With all the major world leagues suspended, successive cases of coronavirus have followed in several athletes, doctors or coaches around the world, noteworthy being the recent developments in Valencia, where the Los Che club seems to be one of the most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
News from Mestalla is truly worrying
It is a fact that we are in the presence of a virus that does not cause great damage to young and healthy people as is the case with professional football players, however, its rapid spread requires a pronounced social isolation in order not to infect people eventually vulnerable.
Valencia, who recently played in a European qualifier with Atalanta, the Italian club in the city of Bergamo, one of the most affected by the Coronavirus, is counting on a series of positive cases that have scared Spanish football. After Ezequiel Garay, a central defender who has played for Benfica, was the first to be positive, also Eliaquim Mangala (ex-FC Porto) and Gayá followed in the footsteps of their fellow defender at the Valencian club.
But a club director and doctor has also been positive by Covid-19, being immediately forced into contingency measures that go through a quarantine period.
A bad thing never comes alone…
As I warned above, this new epidemic outbreak is particularly troublesome because of its rapid spread, something that has become quite evident in the case of Valencia since, according to recent information from the club, about 35% of the most recently tested were positive, thus the footsteps of your colleagues already mentioned.
This is a really worrying situation for all stakeholders and their families, in a clear warning regarding the importance of referring to social isolation these days, especially as long as the exponential evolution phase of the virus continues.
Naturally, everyone involved in this situation is, almost exclusively, professional athletes, in good physical and health conditions that practically do not register symptoms related to the virus.
All of them will be confined to social isolation, accompanied by doctors and maintaining their home training routine.
It could be said that this situation prevents players from maintaining their shape because they are training at home, prevented from maintaining the competitive standards that they would have in a joint training, but the truth is that Valencia is not alone in this, since all clubs whose competitions are suspended have chosen to send their players home, establishing specific training for this phase of greater home confinement.
Football has not escaped a global drama
After the affair with Daniele Rugani of Juventus and a player from Hannover, alarms in European football for this new problem that quickly forced the suspension of all sporting activity sounded.
Valencia were one of the most recent cases, but Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi also contracted the virus, as well as Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta, contributing strongly to the English League also suspending functions until early April.
The entire Real Madrid squad went into quarantine after it was known that a basketball player from the club tested positive, noting that the two modalities shared training facilities.
Jorge Jesus was also infected
With Covid-19 spreading around the world, it would not have been a surprise that cases in South or North America started to register, as the strong globalization in which we are immersed also has its most negative aspects, especially in a case like these.
Yesterday, Jorge Jesus tested positive for the new coronavirus, although he does not show any symptoms as he himself insisted on referring to in a statement issued last night.
Anyway, this news will obviously compel the entire Flamengo squad to quarantine in order to avoid spreading throughout the squad at a time when competitions in Brazil are not yet officially suspended, although this should be precipitated by recent developments .
Some games of State Championships took place behind closed doors this weekend, but it is unlikely that this will continue to happen in the face of news involving Jorge Jesus and Flamengo, to which now Luan, Corinthians attacking midfielder who is also suspected having recently contracted coronavirus.
These are particularly difficult times for everyone and football does not benefit from an exceptional regime on the part of Covid-19 that does not choose creeds or beliefs, so it is up to all of us to continue working to limit and, if possible, overcome this pandemic quickly in the shortest period of time, and it should be noted that it will be essential to respect social isolation for this to be truly feasible in a short period of time.
