Political victory for Calcio: it will also be played if there are positives

On the day that competitions return with tonight's Juve-Milan, Italian football receives another good news. Perhaps the most anticipated. The Government Scientific Technical Committee, at today's meeting, accepted the requests of the Football Federation approving a new protocol, which cancels the two-week isolation for the entire team in which a person infected with COVID-19 appears. The new rules imitate the Bundesliga model, which isolates only the eventual infected.

According to the new rules, in the morning of the first match following the detection of the infected, a quick test of the squad and coaching staff would be carried out at least four hours before the kick-off to detect other cases. Undersecretary of Health Sandra Zampa, as published 'La Gazzetta dello Sport, He explained that the players “will be in quarantine if a positive appears before and after the games,” respecting “very rigorous” rules. The quarantine remains, then, but it will not prevent the clashes from playing: they move away from a Serie A final with playoff and playout, and the dreaded algorithm to determine the classification in case of definitive suspension. LDamocles' sword that threatened to paralyze Calcium has disappeared again: for Italian football, it is a long-awaited political victory.