Iago Aspas takes the ‘cascade’ of contagions with humor: “Brunete’s children are going to play”

Less than a week after football returns to LaLiga Santander, the infections and positives for COVID-19 are only growing. In the case of Celta de Vigo, The sky blue team will visit Real Betis at Benito Villamarín next Sunday, January 2. Both teams play a lot, but ‘Chacho’ Coudet will not be able to count on several of the members of his squad for the first game of the course. That is why Iago Aspas, forward and captain of the Celtiñas, has ironic with the situation that his club is experiencing at the moment because of the pandemic. “This day will be played by the children of the brunete tournament”, the Celta player has published on his personal Twitter account.

On December 24, The Vigo team announced that 5 players from the first team had tested positive for COVID-19. However, the names of these players did not transcend. Well, just 3 days after the first infections were known, from Vigo it was reported that another 4 members of the Celtiña team, and in the absence of knowing the results of the PCR tests, had been positive in the antigen tests. In the case of the Verdiblanco team, Celta de Vigo’s next rival in the league championship, To date, only the positives of Borja Iglesias and the result of the test of Andrés Guardado, who tested positive on December 18, are known..

The journalist José Ramón de la Morena, coordinator of the Brunete Tournament, has not missed the occasion of informing Aspas about the championship.