Mikel Oyarzabal is the fourth positive for coronavirus in the Real Sociedad squad. The Eibar midfielder has given positive in the last PCR test to which the first team of the San Sebastian club has been subjected just hours after playing against Huesca, which complicates the case even more.
Strictly following the protocol for this type of case, He is already isolated at home, but he will not be able to go with the Spanish team this week to play the two scheduled games of the Nations League (against Germany and Ukraine) for which he had been summoned by Luis Enrique, who will now have to choose a replacement. However, the truth is that this positive quarter at Real conditions the continuity of his preseason, but for now the start of La Liga is not in danger, because the rest of the players do not have to quarantine.
It has been the Royal Society itself that has announced the positive of Oyarzabal through its usual channels. “The members of the first team txuri urdin, together with technicians and employees of the Club, passed new PCR tests yesterday. Among the results of these tests there is a new positive case within the staff, which is already isolated at home. The case has been communicated to the competent health authorities “, the realistic club has explained.
And then it has been Oyarzabal himself who has revealed his identity as the new positive case in the realistic template. He has done it through his account on social networks. “Kaixo! I want to communicate that I have tested positive in the last test performed. I have to be home for a few days and I won't be able to go with the national team. One less day to go back to work with colleagues. Eskerrik asko! ”, Said the second captain of the Real Sociedad, who logically will not be able to attend the summons of the coach Luis Enrique. He will have to be isolated at home for ten days, until further tests are carried out. And to return to training in Zubieta, he will have to give two consecutive negatives in PCR tests, according to the LaLiga protocol.
They will also have to pass test Huesca players to find out if any of them were infected during the meeting.
This new positive case in the realistic club, the fourth since they began this atypical preseason, has been made known after the new PCR tests to which all the players, coaching staff and workers of the Real first team were subjected yesterday Saturday , in the morning, before the friendly match that they played in the afternoon against Huesca in Zubieta.
Although there are those who may think that they skipped the protocol at Real, the truth is that the friendly match could be played, because on Thursday all the footballers had tested negative in a PCR test that was made after meeting a new positive this past Tuesday. From that day until the game against Huesca, as a precaution, he returned to individual training in Zubieta. And yesterday they passed the PCR tests again as they had marked, the results of which were known this Sunday. With everything, It is logical to think that the positive of Oyarzabal puts at risk that there will be more infections among the rest of the players who participated in that friendly, both from Real and Huesca, whose players will also have to undergo new tests for the coronavirus.
This new contagion in the Real conditions the continuation of your preparatory work, but the preseason of the txuri-urdin team will not stop. From La Real it has been reported that, following the protocol established by La Liga, it is not necessary that the rest of the players have to quarantine and not be able to train in the next two weeks, something that would put in serious risk if participation in the first day of the league.
As the rest of the players have tested negative in those same PCR tests, the rest of the players will be able to continue with their preseason work in Zubieta. It acts in the same way as with the positive that was known last Tuesday. The infected player is isolated and the rest of the players who have tested negative continue to exercise in Zubieta. Everything points, although that until tomorrow, Monday, will not be known, that the Real will continue with individual training and will not return to collective work, as planned before knowing the positive of Oyarzabal.
The idea is to take even more precautions, with a new disinfection of all Zubieta facilities, and that the players will train following the strictest protocol of when they returned to work in the express final of the last league, that is, going to the facilities changed and leaving without showering home, having the minimum contact between them, at least until a new PCR test is carried out and they return negative results in the rest of the players.