Spitting & what will happen if a footballer tests positive for Covid-19 after football returns

What to do about spitting in football?

When football finally returns around the world, one of the new rule changes could relate to spitting.

On some grim occasions in football, players have been known to spit at each other.

However, more frequently, footballers spit on the grass during games as a matter of habit.

Footballers may have to change their behaviour, however, as momentum is building to define spitting into a cautionable offence in these Covid-19 times. The Telegraph report:

Players should be given yellow cards if they spit during matches when football resumes because they risk spreading coronavirus, a Fifa council member said on Monday.

Scientists say that saliva could stay on the playing surface for hours, and that coronavirus could be passed on by players who may not be showing signs of the illness. 

Spitting should be outlawed on resumption and punished by yellow card, says Fifa’s chief medichttps://t.co/6mQRdGhkeO

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) April 27, 2020

 

What will happen if a footballer tests positive for Covid-19 after football returns?

This is perhaps one of the biggest issues facing plans to restart football around the world, and so far there is no definitive answer.

However, Italy’s Minister for Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, has already laid out his thoughts; if one player tests positive for Covid-19, the 2019-20 Serie A season is finished.

Vincenzo Spadafora said:

There are many doubts and the situation is complicated. Nothing is to be taken for granted and it is not certain that the season will resume. We must earn this opportunity with the right behaviour.

Italy’s Minister for Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, made it clear that if one a player tests positive, the season will be over.

“There are many doubts and the situation is complicated. Nothing is to be taken for granted and it is not certain that the season will resume.”

— Dale Johnson (@DaleJohnsonESPN) April 27, 2020

As for the Bundesliga, they are trying to be a bit more flexible in their approach.

According to the plans to restart the German league, if a player will test positive for Covid-19, the first step will be to isolate that player only.

However, Professor Liebert, who is head of the Institute of Virology at the University of Leipzig, told German paper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that that plan is flawed:

We don’t know about the long-term effects of an illness with Covid-19. It’s possible to get very sick or die from the virus at a young age.

You can only detect an infection after 48 hours. From my point of view, all people in contact with a soccer player are first-degree contacts, so everyone would have to go in quarantine, possibly also the opposing team.

 

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