The relentless claws of a cursed year

There are those who play with the figures of this year to find the number 40: 20 + 20. Or what is the same, quarantine, a time for suffering and recollection, to atone for ‘sins’. The somewhat esoteric reading may seem even bizarre, lacking in reliability, but it is clear that, coincidence or not, this course is being painful in the social and health aspects, as well as the economic one. What begins badly …

At Athletic the flu appeared in both the men's and women's first teams; mumps also affected Unai Simon. Little for what would later happen, a kind of biblical plague that no one would have or suspected.

I hope everything that is happening now was a simple flu like the one that affected the club at the start of a damn 2020, which in the case of the Female attacked in a relentless way, jeopardizing a match. “These are situations that have to make us stronger as a team, the week has been very complicated with the issue of fevers and vomiting,” he revealed Villacampa shortly before taking on Madrid CFF. Andrea de la Nava, Leia Zarate, Ainhoa ​​Álvarez and Vanesa Gimbert they were KO.

Something similar happened with Levante. “We have an outbreak of the flu, of angina. We have been with a lot of super medicated players all week and Lucía is one of them. Damaris is another, she is with discomfort in the soleus ”, added the coach of the girls, who feared that the duel could not be played due to so many casualties.

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what can come

Around this time, the mumps of Unai Simon, who opened the doors to Iago Herrerín to play some encounters. Before playing the Cup match against Sestao, Garitano He had problems making the call due to the physical problems of several footballers, some of them with fever in the last hours.

Then came the break after the victory on March 8 in Valladolid, several months of confinement until what seemed an impossible reality, which was to resume the league competition from June 14 to extend the league until July 19.

A new hiatus of just over three weeks has called for the reincorporation of the so-called new reality, a reality that has given Athletic six slaps in a fateful year and with a postponed Cup final.

And that things do not get worse and force more stops, because the course gives nothing but displeasure.