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Agnelli: “Clear protocol, sporting loyalty is needed”

The Juventus president: “De Laurentiis asked me to postpone the game, I replied that there are rules to be respected. The 3-0 at table? I prefer to win on the pitch”

Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus, spoke to Sky Sport about the Juventus-Napoli case. “I don’t have to get an idea of ​​the situation or not – he said -. What is essential is to clarify: we have protocols that are very clear, and it is foreseeable that it would have happened to have a positive case at Covid. Sooner or later it happens to everyone. At that point you rely on protocol and you know what to do. You go into fiduciary isolation in a structure agreed with the ASL and in doing so you can train and play the game. a lot of clarity, you know what happens, that’s what we did yesterday when two people tested positive. We isolated ourselves in our structure, our technical center. It is not a question of the football system, the protocol was studied by the Federation with the Government, of course it is a “living” regulation, with the days we discover facets that had not been taken into consideration, the cases will be identified each time and the document perfected. It is clear that the priority is the protection of public health, in this case we have a protocol that allows us to carry out our job. The important thing is to always have that spirit of sporting loyalty that is the basis of everything “.

the message

Contacts with De Laurentiis? “We sent each other a message, he wrote me – said Agnelli -. I replied that Juventus abides by the regulations. He wanted to postpone the game, a request that may be legitimate. But in all industries there are regulations and those we must comply with. If we do not comply with the regulations it is the first mistake we make not as sportsmen, but as citizens. How would we have behaved in reverse? I would have left for Naples, but the ASL would not have issued that statement . The ASL does not intervene if the protocol is observed, if I do not observe it, the ASL intervenes. The ASL depends on the Ministry of Health, the short circuit is internal, not external. The protocol seems to me very well done, but I defer to the authorities competent, in the awareness that public health comes first. But if we want to complete sporting events, not just the football championship, we need to know how to manage the cases and the positivity that can be identified the frequency of the checks we are subjected to “. And in the end he specified: “The 3-0 at the table? I prefer to win on the field. Always”.

the anomaly

At the press conference, then, Agnelli added: “We are not in the presence of a new case, Juve-Napoli was the anomaly. In the past few weeks and also in this week, matches have been played with teams that have had positive cases in the team group, both at home and away. What commands is the ministerial circular, the local authority does not command. The sporting regulations say that if a team does not appear, it faces disciplinary sanctions. From this point of view, the sports judge it will express itself tomorrow “. And then: “We welcome the possibility in the next Lega assembly of identifying a correct and serious partner to whom to hand over the management of the commercial development of the League by excluding us all”.

the medical officer

Luca Stefanini, head of the Juventus medical staff, also spoke to Sky Sport: “The note from the CTS does not contain anything new, they refer to the circular of the Ministry of Health. The moment in which a positive Covid is found, the bubble must be created immediately . This is followed by the indications of the various protocols, such as the execution of the swabs, which today gave negative results. Having respected all the steps, we are able to play the game. Didn’t this happen to Napoli? I don’t know say. I limited myself to strictly applying the protocol to the letter. For the rest I don’t know what happened to Napoli. ”

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