Serie A clubs can return to team training from May 18 if they can create adjustments with medical protocols, the Italian government has announced on Tuesday . The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) met with the government’s technical scientific committee (CTS) last week to discuss details for a normalcy to group training because the country emerges from a two-month coronavirus lockdown.
Italy’s sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora and health minister Roberto Speranza said during a joint statement on Monday that the CTS had largely accepted the FIGC protocol for a resumption of group sessions.
“The opinion requested by the govt from the Technical Scientific Committee confirms the road of prudence,” the ministers’ statement said.
“The indications of the CTS, which are to be considered stringent and binding, are going to be sent to the Federation for the required adjustments of the protocol so as to permit for the safe resumption of team training ranging from May 18.”
Football has been suspended in Italy since March 9 amid the pandemic which has killed nearly 31,000 people within the country.
The Italian government has allowed squads to return to individual training sessions in team facilities from May 4.
But there remain issues to be decided like the quarantine of players just in case of positive tests for coronavirus.
Italian football bosses want to follow the instance of Germany, which returns to action on May 16, and where only positive cases would be put into isolation.
But the CTS insists football must suits the overall rule of fortnight in insolation for those that are in touch with positive cases.
There are still 13 rounds of football to be played for a few teams between mid-June, when the FIGC hopes to return to action, and August.
Since the return to training last week, Fiorentina and Sampdoria announced 10 positive tests. additionally , a Torino player tested positive.
Spadafora later stressed the various tests which will got to be administered on Serie A footballers wouldn’t be done “to the detriment of citizens”.