Five members of the Valais club could have contracted the virus, including the first team coach Ricardo Dionisio.
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The players of FC Sion, during the official resumption of training, Monday June 1 in Riddes.
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FC Sion, which officially resumed training on Whit Monday, took the opportunity to test all of its players and staff at Covid-19. “The Swiss Football League did not make these tests compulsory, but FC Sion considered it their responsibility to practice them,” the Valais club said in a statement Tuesday, before delivering a potentially worrying assessment.
Of the 50 tests carried out, explains FC Sion, 45 were “completely negative”. But the last five, which concern two players from the U21 training, two staff members and the coach of the first team Ricardo Dionisio, have demonstrated “contact with the virus in recent weeks, without presenting or having presented the slightest symptom”.
Additional checks were carried out Monday afternoon. Pending final results, within twenty-four or forty-eight hours, FC Sion decided “as a precaution” to leave these five people at home on Tuesday.
Posted today at 12.51pm-
