Tuesday in the friendly match in Bienne, FR Gottéron appeared without the Canadian Zack Boychuk and captain Julien Sprunger, who had been absent for several days. The reason? “They are both sick,” said coach Christian Dubé, without revealing the exact nature of their illness.
The two players, while microbes have recently invited themselves to the Freiburg locker room, have they contracted a simple seasonal flu? Still, with the coronavirus crisis and with all the precautions in force, did Boychuk and Sprunger have to undergo tests to find out if they were infected with the coronavirus? “I do not know exactly what the procedures are but I imagine that every precaution is taken by the teams when players get sick,” Dubé said Tuesday evening.
“No comment”
Contacted by phone on Wednesday morning, the managing director of FR Gottéron, Raphaël Berger, declined to give further information on this subject. “I have no comments to make and I do not wish to fuel speculation.”
As a reminder, the Swiss clubs have not yet openly addressed the question of what would happen if, as long as the play-off starts next Tuesday, a player from a competing team were to be infected by the coronavirus…
Created: 03/11/2010, 3:35 p.m.
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