CSD and AFE addressed all the concerns and anxieties of footballers

Madrid, 27 april 2020.The president of the supreme council for sports (CSD), Irene Lozano, has maintained a telematic meeting this morning with the association of Spanish Footballers (ERA), with the aim to explain to the union, in more detail, the terms of agreements on Viana, and to hear the main concerns and preoccupations of the group of footballers.

“ you are an essential actor in the area of football and your role, your opinion, will be key. We are writing a blank page, and we have to write between all ”, has transmitted Irene Lozano to David Aganzo, the president of ERA, and then offer a union that is also in the meetings of the Athletes created under the command of the task force to promote Sport (IDWG). ERA, in fact, is already present in the weekly meetings of the aforementioned IDWG and a key player in the work.

During the meeting, the president of the council has been able to hear at first hand the concerns raiding to footballers at a time when you work for a future return to practice, but for which there is still no date. Lozano has explained to AFE which will be Health to determine the exact moment back to the favourites and, where appropriate, to competition in the case of the professional leagues. Similarly, will be the health authorities to decide the time in which clubs can be tested its players, as the current framework provides that only access the PCR test prescription basis; and always in contact with autonomous medical authorities.

Similarly, the CSD has transferred to the partnership at the end of last week was submitted to the department led by the Salvador Illa the draft protocol on the back to the favourites of sports activities remain Health who shall determine its criteria according to the evolution of a pandemic COVID-19.