COVID sneaks into La Albericia again

“It was time …”, that was the expression, resigned, that could be heard the most this morning at the Nando Yosu Facilities after confirming the return of the coronavirus to La Albericia. After many months of absolute normality in the pandemic front of the Verdiblanco first team, Isma López reported yesterday that he had tested positive for COVID and Lucas Díaz that, despite being personally negative, he is direct contact of a family member who has tested positive and that therefore must also be confined. The rest of the players, technicians and assistants have tested negative for antigens and have trained normally.

With the protocol applied by the Government of Cantabria in the first year and a half of the pandemic, this situation would have led to the confinement and the complete stoppage of activity for the entire workforce, but now, all vaccinated, those who test negative can continue to live normal. The team will travel to Almendralejo on Friday at eight in the morning, but earlier, throughout Thursday, the entire expedition will undergo another round of antigen tests.

As explained by the team captain, Íñigo Sainz-Maza, this new encounter with the coronavirus has caused the strictest protocols to be activated once again at the Nando Yosu Facilities:“The first thing we want is to send a message of support to Isma, in a pandemic we have to live with these things but we want to be close to him and Lucas right now. We have done tests, we have all tested negative and now we have distributed through many changing rooms and we are taking extreme precautions to be able to continue training normally “.

Without Isma or Lucas, and with Pablo Bobadilla still training outside the group and that he will not compete again until the first day of 2022, Guillermo Fernández Romo has called up goalkeeper Germán, center-back Diego Mirapeix and left-back Iván Alonso, all of Rayo Cantabria, to complete the eleven against eleven in the games. Nor did Mario Jorrín participate in the session, with permission for study topics, which will be under the Madrid coach tomorrow.

The absence of Lucas Díaz in the Almendralejo game will mean that Germán travels with the first team and that Ezequiel Loza, coach of the subsidiary team, wait for him until the last minute to see if, after the long journey, the Santander goalkeeper is in physical condition to play against Tropezón. Racing will play on Saturday, at 5:00 p.m., in Almendralejo, while Rayo Cantabria-Tropezón is scheduled for Sunday, at 3:45 p.m., in Bezana.