Returning to Montevideo after a fortnight of quarantine in Italy, Inter Milan defender Diego Godin seemed to regret, in an interview with ESPN, that Serie A had not been stopped earlier in an attempt to stem the pandemic from Covid-19.
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“We have been exposed until the last moment, he said, while the Italian Championship was not suspended until March 9. They kept pulling the rope to see if we could keep playing until the situation was not viable (…) We continued to play for several weeks, we continued to practice, to play behind closed doors, until a player tested positive (Juventus defenseman Daniele Rugani) and that we and the Juventus players are in quarantine (the two teams competed on March 8, 2-0). “
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For the former Atlético de Madrid player, the Italian authorities have not sufficiently weighed the gravity of the situation: “We didn’t give him as much importance at first, we thought it was a Chinese problem and that it would not reach other countries (…) At the government level, no drastic measures have been taken to prevent what could happen. “
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