Bad news for Diego Simeone ahead of the Champions League. L’Atletico Madrid in fact, he announced that two players tested positive for COVID-19 and explained that tomorrow all the players will repeat the test in view of Thursday’s match against Leipzig: “Yesterday, Saturday 8 August, all the members of the first team and the staff for the expedition to Lisbon were subjected to tests at the Ciudad Deportiva de Majadahonda as required by the UEFA protocol to participate in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Among the results known today, two positives appeared, which were isolated in their respective homes, and which were immediately communicated to the Spanish and Portuguese health authorities, UEFA, the Spanish Football Association, the Portuguese Federation and the Higher Sports Council. Similarly, the corresponding protocol of action envisaged for these cases was activated, requiring the execution of new PCR testing on the first team and staff on the closest contacts of positive cases The club will coordinate new programs co n UEFA and as soon as there is a new plan it will be made public. We also ask for the utmost respect for the identity of the two positive cases “, reads the statement.
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