The third-round adjustment against Torino is the first Serie A player to be suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic since the start of the championship on 19 September.
“This postponement makes sense. If we hadn’t, who would have gone out on the field, me and (sports director Daniele) Faggiano?” said Genoa President Enrico Preziosi.
“This virus has a meaningless ability to spread. Unfortunately, it needs to be controlled.
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In Italy, the first European country affected by the coronavirus, Serie A was first suspended in early March and returned in mid-June to end the season.
After genoa’s latest tests, 12 players and 4 members test positive for COVID-19, two more than announced on Monday.
Goalkeeper Mattia Perin and midfielder Lasse Schoene missed Genoa’s 6-0 Serie A defeat in Naples on Sunday, and another 14 have returned testing since the match, joining Italian striker Mattia Destro on Thursday.
Genoa had called for the postponement of the Turin adjustment, and the fitness government canceled the team’s sessions.
And the Lega Serie A demonstrated on Thursday that it would be UEFA regulations that an adjustment can only take position while a team has thirteen healthy players, adding a goalkeeper.
There are also considerations about Napoli players, after 8 players who took the Genoa area tested positive.
Napoli is facing Juventus, the Turin champion, on Sunday. A first set of samples in Naples proved negative, with a testing moment scheduled for Thursday.
If 10 players test positive in a week, a club can request the postponement of a match.
The application can be granted once per season.
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Turin’s president, Urbano Cairo, criticized the slowness of Italian football bosses about what steps to take.
“The point is that a rule had to be established, as UEFA did some time ago to decide when to play and when not to play,” Cairo told Sky Sports Italia.
“The League, for example, followed this rule and did so a long time ago. We’re way behind and it’s a shame.
“I think it’s been done before because it was simple to hope that such conditions could happen in the fall. “
“Now there is a need for safe regulations for each and every day.
“Torino also had a positive record before the match against Atalanta and we had Thursday’s education. “
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The president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravina, insisted: “Although we decided to participate in sports competitions, our movements are encouraged through the coverage of the fitness of the members.
“There has been a fruitful collaboration with the authorities, to highlight the wonderful efforts of all the protagonists of our global to restrict that of the virus. “
Other groups have had individual instances with AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahimovic in quarantine after rising positive last week, which led to a debate about whether the championship will be suspended.
Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said the week that “the situations to prevent the season are not met. “
The new season began with a maximum of 1000 spectators allowed in the stadiums.
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