Santander League: Confusion in the First Clubs: “Can you go to the supermarket with 50 people and not go running alone in the mountains?” | LaLiga Santander 2019

Marco Asensio, and many other footballers recovering from their injuries, have to do exercises on natural grass

• Coronavirus.
  

  The most tense hours in the heart of Real Madrid
  

• Crisis.
  

  Telecommuting in First Clubs
  

The professional soccer it has not escaped the jolt of uncertainties that the rest of society has chewed since the state of alarm was decreed. Mobility exceptions remain unclear to clubs, where they wonder how players will get to their jobs if they can't train as a group or just play sports outdoors. «Is it authorized to go to a supermarket with 50 more people but a professional cannot go running alone in the mountains?». The question is asked in the coaching staff of one of the First teams, waiting for more specific indications from the League or the Federation.

Of particular concern is the case of injured footballers who undergo recovery processes. TO Marco AsensioFor example, he got this shock when he was about to return to training with his teammates, after breaking the cruciate ligament and the external meniscus of the knee last summer. The Mallorcan had spent weeks playing the ball and doing solo sessions, speeding up deadlines to be able to join the rest of the squad throughout this March. And then, play again in April.

His plans came to a sudden halt last week when Real Madrid suspended his schedule because of the coronavirus positive detected in the basketball section. Since then, morning and afternoon, he has been at his home in the capital, receiving treatment from the club's doctors, who also repeat visits to Eden Hazard, the other long-term injured from the troop of Zinedine Zidane. The rest of the players have already spent the weekend under the maintenance guidelines that the team's physical trainer, Grégory Dupont, has sent them in video format. TeleDupont is the nickname that the squad has given to new workouts.

But for Asensio massages or exercises with the machines he has installed at home are not enough. «You need to step on natural grass. So we are looking for a solution, a field where he can run alone, “they recognize from their environment. Today they precisely expect to hear about possible alternatives, always with special permits from the Federation. His job is to continue training and he cannot do it, at the risk of delaying his final recovery.

Medical advice

“He has overcome the hardest part of the injury, but right now he is in a very important period, that of specific sports rehabilitation. And this must be done well, because it is complex, since it requires prudence and trust at the same time “, analyzes the doctor Diego García-Germán, specialist in arthroscopic surgery at the HM Torrelodones University Hospital. “It is time to adapt the joint to the contact with the grass, with the ball, to sudden turns …”, explains the traumatologist, all actions that in a home salon cannot be done. Nor in the garden.

With the Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas closed, Asensio He hopes to urgently find a natural grass field where he can continue his work. After falling injured in the preseason, during a friendly in Washington, the Balearic hoped to help Madrid in the last months of the competition, with the hope at the same time of being able to add merit in the eyes of Luis Enrique, the selector, and thus enter the list of the Eurocup or even in that of the Olympic team. Now he doesn't even know if the League will be able to resume in May.

Doubts float through all the changing rooms. Getafe, Atlético de Madrid and Almería -of Second Division-, announced yesterday that their training, scheduled to resume today and tomorrow, was suspended until further notice. In the blue box, the players have received a detailed individualized program of physical exercises to perform at home and also dietary instructions for the entire week. Contingency plans that will change if the Federation or the League dictate new recommendations for professionals. In the PomegranateAs in Getafe, material and activities will also be distributed to develop at home. And a clear prohibition in the Nasrid club: for now, no running.