Severe fine to a team for failing to comply with health protocols

The coronavirus pandemic changed everything globally. Not only because of the chaos it generated, where infections continue to multiply daily and deaths also, but because clubs had to adopt new health protocols to prevent players from contracting the disease. In that sense, in the last hours the information came to light that an important club received a heavy fine for violating current sanitary measures. 

Lazio, a Serie A team that has three Argentines on the roster, was fined 150,000 euros by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), and its president, Claudio Lotito, was sanctioned for seven months for failing to comply with health regulations related to the coronavirus.

The Roman team, which includes the Argentines Mateo Musacchio, Gonzalo Escalante and Joaquín Correa, was accused of not meeting the deadlines to report the positive results of the tests carried out on the campus in October and November. The cases were detected in the framework of the Champions League matches against Zenit Saint Petersburg and Belgian Brugge. Two doctors were also punished for a year each, Ivo Pulcini and Fabio Rodia, reported the Italian site TuttoMercato.

The events arose last February when Lazio was accused of hiding eight coronavirus infections from club members that were discovered at the end of October. The FIGC condemned the club because it allowed three footballers to take on matches and train with the rest of the group despite having tested positive for Covid-19.