The suspension of the repesca playoff promotion to Segunda B for the positives by COVID-19 of three players from CD Marino de Tenerife has caused a monumental mess between those involved and the Real spanish soccer federation.
Faced with complaints from the affected clubs, the RFEF issued a note this Sunday stating that “The Federation has always complied with the anti-COVID protocols during the playoffs played in recent weeks, both the promotion to the Second Division and the additional phase of the playoffs for promotion to the Second Division B, scheduled for this weekend in the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas (Madrid), headquarters of the RFEF ”, states the statement.
“In the case of the additional phase of the playoffs for promotion to Second Division B, as soon as they appeared in the Ciudad del Fútbol all the players from the participating clubs underwent the preliminary tests, in which three CD Marino players tested positive “Adds the RFEF, which He decided to suspend the two meetings scheduled for this weekend:
Loyalty-Alcoyano and CD Marino-Linares Deportivo.
Linares wants to “ascend in the field”
The president of Linares, Jesús Medina, has indicated this Sunday in a statement that his team, champion of Group IX of the Third Division with 75 points in 29 games and in the play-off after losing the previous tie against Real Jaén 1-0, is waiting for news from the RFEF. “We are on August 2 and we don't know anything. The intention is to play the game against Marino and move up to Segunda B on the field, ”says the Andalusian club manager.
Alcoyano sees “very complex” playing the playoff
For his part, the Alcoyano It has also issued a statement to point out that it sees “very complex” being able to dispute this play-off in the current health circumstances, although requests the Spanish Football Federation “the maximum speed
in making decisions for the completion of the promotion phase ”.
Alcoyano argues that “the 2019-2020 season exceeds 12 months and the clubs of Third division They do not have the financial resources to face more payroll monthly payments or more additional expenses ”.
New tests are negative for CD Marino
Meanwhile, new tests to detect COVID-19 carried out on the expedition of the Marine Sports Club Displaced to Madrid to play the play-off for promotion to Segunda B, they have tested negative, including those of the three players who tested positive this past Saturday.
Sources from the Tenerife club have reported that the Spanish Football Federation He has confirmed the results of these tests carried out last night to the 30 people who make up the expedition that the team had transferred to Madrid.
The president of the Tenerife club, Paco Santamaría, has announced that this Sunday the team will return to the island, since the game scheduled for Sunday against the Linares Deportivo and, for now, the decision that the RFEF will make regarding promotions to the bronze category is unknown.
Paco Santamaría has reported that he has the “perception” that no other date will be sought for the dispute of the matches, since “It is difficult to activate all the necessary means, both health and logistics ”, for the trip to Madrid.
In any case, the president of the CD Marino expects the RFEF to make a “fair and equitable decision” for the four teams that were going to play the qualifying rounds, which he hopes will arrive “as soon as possible”.
Loyalty calls for “an immediate solution”
Loyalty, who should have faced Alcoyano on Saturday in the playoff playoff for promotion to Segunda B, has returned to Asturias without knowing if he will have to continue training and in what category he will be next season.
To this great uncertainty the club adds the travel expenses, which exceed 2,000 euros, without the Spanish Football Federation You have passed on whether the four teams participating in the last playoff will have any help in coping with the costs.
“We were almost getting on the bus to go to the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas when the president called me and told me to wait a bit, because they just told him that the game will probably be suspended. They were moments of total uncertainty, and soon confirm that the meeting is officially suspended, and that we return to Villaviciosa, “explained the Loyalty coach Clemente Sánchez.
“The situation right now is very complicated, a total uncertainty. We even have a footballer who has stayed in Madrid; there are other players who have the rental contracts for the expired apartments. And the rest of the people with no desire to continue, after seven weeks training and that now we have to wait longer, “said the Asturian coach, who calls for “an immediate solution because this seems like crazy stuff. ”