Athletic returns to work pending the PCR tests

The pandemic once again marks the day-to-day life of soccer teams. Athletic is no stranger to it. The rojiblanco team returns to work at half past six in the afternoon with individualized training sessions or in small groups and with different schedules until the results of the PCR tests to which the players and all the staff who work regularly will be submitted are known. with the first team, including the coaching staff, throughout the day today. This is the new regulation that LaLiga marks due to the resurgence of Covid-19 due to the Omicron variant and the consequent increase in people affected by this disease.

Unai Simon e Iñigo Martinez They already tested positive for Covid-19 on December 17 and Jokin Ezkieta Y Alex Berenguer three days later. The first two did not play the last two competition matches against Betis and Real Madrid and the two Navarrese footballers missed the commitment against the whites that ended with an unfair defeat by 1-2.

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More than 200 players of First and Second have tested positive in recent days after the holidays motivated by the Christmas parties. El Rayo, for example, has registered 17 cases and Real, 10. Therefore, all security measures must be taken.

The new regulations will also prevent this afternoon’s work session from being open, as was originally planned. The club will open New Year’s Eve training to all its fans, which will begin at eleven in the morning. Ibaigane reminds that it will not be possible to sign autographs or take pictures with the players.

The first team will start preparing in this way to return to competition after six days of vacation. The rojiblancos play the first game of the year 2022 on January 3 against Osasuna.

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Be supposed to Marcelino will recover for this meeting the four lions affected by Covid before Christmas. If all goes according to plan, they will also be available throughout the month of January. Yuri Berchiche Y Dani vivian. The coach did not know how to specify when he will have Peru Nolaskoain Y Asier Villalibre He is further behind in recovering from the muscle injury he suffered against Rayo and from which he relapsed twice, against Villarreal and Levante. The Gernika striker will still have to wait to join the group.

In addition to today’s training, the team will exercise Thursday and Friday in the morning (11 a.m.) and in the afternoon on Saturday (7 p.m.) and Sunday (5 p.m.), the day on which the Asturian coach will appear before the media.