[SPORT] Barcelona reports a positive for Covid in the group that does not travel to Lisbon

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The affected person, asymptomatic and who according to Barça has not had contact with the players who will play the Champions League, is one of the nine players who started the preseason today

 

 

The Football Club Barcelona has reported this Wednesday of the existence of a positive for Covid-19 in the group of nine players who today should start the preseason: the new incorporations (Trincao, Pedri and Matheus Fernandes), in addition to Todibo, Wagué, Aleñá , Rafinha, Miranda and Oriol Busquets, who were returning from their respective assignments.

All of them are players who will not be part of the expedition that will head to Lisbon this Thursday, where Barça will face Bayern one day later in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

According to Barcelona, the affected footballer, who underwent PCR tests on Tuesday afternoon and has already been isolated, has not been in contact with the members of the first team that will play the continental competition.

The Barça club, in any case, maintains that people who may have had some contact with the positive have already been traced so that they are subjected to PCR tests.

The members of the Barcelona A-list squad who will play the final eight of the Champions League will go through a new test, already in Lisbon and before the game against the German champions.

To date, and in the face of this ghostly return to the Champions League, only Atlético had to report two positives (Correa and Vrsaljko), who will cause loss in this Wednesday's duel against Atalanta.