Footballers are experiencing the pandemic of the coronavirus. With the new regulation, each club will be able to postpone only one match in The league because of this. If he cannot show up for a second, he will automatically be declared lost 3-0. For all this, Joselu, Albiazul forward, has claimed this noon “responsibility” and “be very cautious” to avoid contagion among colleagues.
On a personal level, he is handling “well” the whole situation generated by the Covid-19. “I have my wife with my family in Madrid, pregnant and about to give birth, and the thing is not enough to go from one place to another,” he recalled resigned. “This is a special situation that we have to live, we must take care of ourselves as much as possible and be prudent,” he said.
To prevent infections in the team, he recalled that “we must try not to be in contact with people who have nothing to do with our football environment, because that can harm the entire squad.”
“Personal decision”
The one from Stuttgart will take extreme precautions to preserve his health. She has a son who is about to turn three years old, of age to attend the haurreskola, but still without the obligation by law to attend school. “My son is not going to go to school this year (to kindergarten since he is three years old), that is clear to me,” he said. “It is a personal decision of each one,” he said. “We have to be aware that, due to the situation we are in, our profession practically requires living in a bubble,” he explained.
We cannot have a normal life, we cannot have a party with friends on a day off
The babazorro tip does not want to harm his club. “We cannot lead a normal life, we cannot have a party with friends on a day off, because we can harm the entire staff,” he warned.
The panorama worsens more in the cases of humble teams like the Alaves. “The new regulation, which I do not know if it will be applied or not, indicates that postponing a second game means losing it, and we play a lot with those points and we do not have a large squad of 30 footballers in case there are casualties,” he recalled.
“Learn fast”
The Stuttgart-born Asturian downplayed the preseason results and advocated “learning quickly” the new system of Paul
Machin. “Every training session is an opportunity to learn a lot,” he said, praising the new coach's work. He considered that “there are no excuses” for the league start and did not want to look for them in the sudden change in schedule of the first match against him. Betis.
Joselu stated that he does not like the rule of the five changes which, in his opinion, benefits the big clubs
“We are used to these changes,” he said with resignation in reference to the schedule. With the crash ahead of Sunday (2:00 p.m.), the Alaves and the Betis they will have one day less to train than they had planned.
As he did on social networks, he made it clear that he “does not like” the fact that the rule of the five changes is maintained, because he considers that it benefits the large clubs.