Reports of infected in the clubs forced to change plans in full preseason. La Liga1 will start on February 3 and the matches will be played without an audience.
The Professional Football League of Peru delayed the start of the First Division Championship, scheduled for January 21, after a regrowth of contagions suffered by various clubs, the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) reported on Friday.
“The Professional Soccer League in coordination with the Peruvian Soccer Federation has decided to postpone the start of League 1 2022 to Thursday, February 3”, Indicates a communiqué from the FPF.
“In the control tests of the clubs during training cases of infected players, coaching staff and administrative staff have been detected due to the COVID-19 virus, the vast majority of them being asymptomatic or with mild symptoms “the statement added.
The championship that would start on January 21, It will start after the South American qualifying games for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Peru will visit Colombia on January 28 and three days later it will receive Ecuador in Lima.
The matches will be played without an audience in the stadiums, according to the new sanitary regulations for the third wave of the pandemic.
Between Monday and Thursday, different clubs reported multiple cases of coronavirus infection in their schools and because of this, they altered their plans in the middle of the preseason.
Sports University Registration 16 cases of contagion between players and administrative staff. Alianza Lima 10 and Sporting Cristal 13.
The current champion, Alliance, Given the current situation that the country is experiencing due to the third wave of the pandemic, it decided suspend your workouts Until next monday.
The Andean country registered more than 11 thousand new cases on Thursday confirmed in one day.
This country of 33 million people has the highest mortality rate in the world, with 6,122 deaths per million inhabitants, according to a balance of the AFP based on official figures.
In a third wave of the pandemic, Peru accumulates more than two million cases of COVID-19 and more than 202,900 deaths since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. (D)
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