Boca confirmed that it has 8 infected with Covid-19 and awaits the result of more players

Shubham Bangwal January 4, 2022

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Boca confirmed that he has 8 infected

Covid-19 is more active than ever in the world and that has repercussions in our country. Football is once again an essential thermometer to confirm how strong the virus is, from the start of the preseason during this Monday after the holidays that the protagonists spent both abroad and in the national territory.

Boca is one of the many clubs that will start the set-up this Monday (this afternoon at the Ezeiza property) and that are already holding their heads: eight players have already reported their positive results, others will not be able to appear due to problems related to the same question and it would not be surprising that in the next few hours that number could increase. In fact, this afternoon Sebastián Battaglia and Frank Fabra also joined the “waiting list”. The reason? The club reported that they were negative in the antigen test, but as they presented symptoms compatible with Covid-19, PCR tests were carried out.

The telephones of the Ezeiza offices rang very early with bad news, although to be expected. It was already felt that the world panorama of contagions would not present exceptions in several of the footballers cited by Battaglia to begin the work of a new year.

Thus, on the other side of the telephone contact were Cristian Pavón (they negotiate their departure from the club through a sale to Cruz Azul), Agustín Rossi, Carlos Zambrano, Alan Varela and Gastón Ávila, who reported their positive results in the tests that They were carried out in the last hours in a particular way and the logical need to be isolated in the next few days. In the afternoon, Marcelo Weigandt, Rodrigo Montes and Eduardo Salvio joined.

All cases were reported by Boca’s official twitter. And it awaits for new notifications from Battaglia and Fabra.

Eduardo Salvio -who was traveling through Europe with his family- contracted coronavirus in the Old Continent during the holidays. However, that margin of days in which he was already recovering would allow him in these hours to return to the country with a negative test to join the beginning of the preseason, in principle, from this Tuesday. And, in that way, begin to go through what (for now) are his last six months wearing the blue and gold shirt: in June he is free of actions and for now there are no negotiations. This Tuesday they will continue their evolution.

Luis Advíncula is another of those who will not be presented. Not because he is infected, but rather because of some inconveniences related to his vaccination scheme so that he is allowed to enter Argentina. Once the obstacle has been solved, the Peruvian side will also join. Although, like all his colleagues, he must first go through the Boca medical team swabbing in order to know if he can be part of the training sessions.

Everything does not end in these names. In the afternoon, when the footballers from the Battaglia campus arrived with their respective cars at the Ezeiza campus, rapid analyzes generated an increase in the number of infected. In the club they do not want to trust only those already informed in the morning and prefer to wait for the new swabs: from their cars, the one who made a positive diagnosis returned home and the one who was optimal, changed and started the practices. In any case, with the increase in cases, the work was not entirely normal, it is clear.

Even indoors they begin to warn that the situation is complex in the face of what lies ahead within the preparation. Not only looking at their cases, but also what broke out since this morning in various institutions. And it is that, in the coming weeks, Xeneize must face a friendly hexagonal (he would play on January 17 and 20 with foreign teams).

However, the adverse outlook already leads them to be cautious: although for the moment it is still standing, the directors of Brandsen 805 are beginning to accept that the possibility of suspending that tournament would not be crazy. “Suspending it is a possibility. The situation makes us insecure at this time. We are attentive to these hours ”.