Sileri and Galli kick Juventus in the match against Napoli
How and why the Deputy Minister of Health, Sileri, and the infectious disease specialist Galli have in fact agreed with Napoli on the case of the match with Juventus
The Juventus-Napoli match has never started but is still being played in a field that is very different from that of the game.
The ball, after Napoli did not take the field, because in fiduciary isolation due to Covid infections in the team, it passed to a sports judge, called to act as referee between the ASL, the government and the world of football, the League and the FIGC.
Among the forwards and full-backs of this now institutional match there are also the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri and the infectious disease specialist Massimo Galli who are not willing to give Juve the victory at the table for having taken the field in solitude.
Let's go step by step.
WHAT HAPPENED
Let's start with the facts. The ASL of Naples forced Napoli not to leave for Turin due to epidemiological risk after two players tested positive in Covid , after the match with Genoa, where there are 14 positive ones. The team, therefore, was unable to take the field to play the match with Juventus, which instead were present at the Stadium.
WON THE TABLE MATCH?
The sports judge Gerardo Mastrandera, this morning, should have decreed the victory at the table of Juventus, but this was not the case. As Repubblica writes, in fact, the judge will take time to calmly analyze the situation and could also ask for an additional investigation, sending the documents to the Federal Prosecutor of the FIGC led by Giuseppe Chinè.
THE GOVERNMENT PROTOCOL
The question is not a simple solution. While Napoli has complied with the impositions arrived from the ASL, while informing the interested parties in time (and also asking for a postponement), the national protocol signed by the Minister of Health and the Cts, and drawn up on the basis of the proposals of the Italian Football Federation , establishes a soft quarantine for players.
Now the same committee has said that the ASL comes first. "The current one is not a clash between the sports and state regulations (with the obvious predominance of the latter) but between two sources of law of equal dignity given that the protocol is a norm of a special nature but of the state system" , comments the Corriere della Sera.
THE POSITION OF THE LEAGUE
On the issue, just in view of the weekend matches, the Football League had also expressed itself , writing: "If one or more players of the same Club test positive for the SARSCoV-2 virus, the match – without prejudice to the provisions of points 4 and 5 – will be disputed. According to the schedule of each competition provided that the Club in question has at least thirteen players available (of which at least one goalkeeper). and on condition that the aforementioned players are. in any case, negative results in the tests preceding the match in question in compliance with the Protocol of the Italian Football Federation ”.
SPADAFORA READY TO CHANGE PROTOCOL
If the ASL decision prevails over everything, then the national protocol should be amended. And the Minister of Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, writes Repubblica , will meet today Lega and FIGC. “The general situation has become more complex, so much so as not to leave the world of football immune, despite the rules adopted. And it is for this reason that, as has been clarified several times both in the minutes of the CTS and in the Dpcm, the local health authorities are entrusted with a clear responsibility and precise supervisory action ”, said the Minister.
SILERI: IT IS ASL THAT DECIDES
In this game, the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri attacked Juve against 3-0 at the table, who speaking at L'Aria che Tira , on La 7 , said that "it is the ASL that decides whether there is a risk or not there is risk. If the ASL of Naples has decided this, it means that it has made an anamnestic story so that it has given this indication. There is no one else who can tell ”.
“It is the ASL that decides who is in isolation and who is not. Only the doctor of the prevention department can make an anamnestic connection, questioning the positive and going to find out what close contacts were, when there were, if they wore the mask and what kind of mask they had. It is the ASL that decides whether someone should go to quarantine or not, ”said Sileri.
SILERI: ONLY QUARANTINE IS WARRANTY
And the Deputy Minister also adds: "The only mechanism that allows us to move forward with football is not the buffer, of which we have seen the limits with the case of Genoa, but it is the quarantine", or "if there are positives and yes they keep people apart for a week and with a negative swab they are released after a few days ”. Basically, concludes Sileri, "the protocol, and not just the one for football, must be revised", providing for 'freeing' people if after 6-7 days of isolation they have a negative buffer.
GALLI: IRRESPONSIBLE NOT TO ACCOUNT ASL DECISION
To intervene in this long and tiring game also the infectious disease specialist of the Sacco hospital and of the University of Milan, Massimo Galli, speaking on Agorà on Rai 3 . The fact that Juve took the field is "proof of the fact that in a situation like this there are rules and authorities that surpass certain others, and that not recognizing and not accepting this is not responsible". The well-known infectious disease specialist also commented on the Genoa case: it is “paradigmatic. I didn't want to believe it. I would have expected the counter analyzes to disprove this and instead it's the classic super speaker outbreak, ”said Galli.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/sileri-e-galli-sgambettano-la-juventus-nella-partita-contro-il-napoli/ on Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:27:47 +0000.