[Deport] Jorge Alva on the FPF protocol for the resumption of football: "It will be for next week

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Peruvian soccer will not be the same after the suspension suffered by the COVID-19 pandemic, at least in a first post-coronavirus stage. Jorge Alva, president of the Medical Commission of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF), gave details of the protocol he prepares with other specialists for the resumption of training and the subsequent return of League 1.

The sanitary norms that the authorities of the FPF will propose to the Government to resume practices will be ready for next week, said the renowned sports doctor this Wednesday in dialogue with El Comercio, but it is only the first step to restart activities.

 

The doctor said that once the protocol, drawn up with Eduardo Gottuzzo, Raúl Huamán and Julio Segura, will be presented to the Ministry of Health to determine if football is played in closed stadiums and also to the Ministry of Transportation, which will define whether the championship "is centralized in Lima or can also be done at the provincial level."

Subsequently, the task will be to initiate a series of coordinations with those in charge of League 1 teams, such as having communication with the club doctors to see if they are in a position to comply with the recommendations.

 

 

"We must see that the players of all the teams have a large place to train with all the comforts of cleanliness, changing rooms, where only the personnel around the team can enter, without other types of visitors. How does the athlete get from his house to the training place, how many people are there in his house, if there is a history of there being any family member with covid-19. You have to find out to take precautions in the case, "he said.

 

It is also pending to see if the footballers should undergo molecular or rapid tests of covid-19, how they will be transported to their training place and other details such as how they would return to practice. "According to the number of players, the physical trainers with the doctors will determine in how many groups and how many shifts you can train," he said.

"If the Ministry (Minsa) gives the pass, the start date of training or competition will be set," said Alva, who believes that "the only way to reach zero point is to happen when the vaccine is available, which should be at the end of the year ”.

 

Jorge Alva assured that it is feasible to play with masks. "It will be uncomfortable but the training sessions will be in the clothing they are going to play in and it has a period of adaptation," he said. In addition, he considered that the protagonists should forget the celebrations for a time.

"One of the preventive measures is social distance and in this sense this type of demonstration is avoided. It would be necessary to make a Japanese greeting, at a distance of one or two meters, but there will no longer be hugs or all the manifestations that bring joy soccer when you score a goal.

"The situation is complicated, but we are in the fight to try to collaborate with Peruvian soccer and see the way in which competitions are restarted," he said in the communication.