The Spanish team already has a date, time and place to get vaccinated. According to the Ministry of Defense, Army medical personnel will vaccinate the members of the national team this Friday at 10:00 am in Las Rozas before starting their journey in Euro 2020, next Monday, June 14 against Sweden.
The Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare gave the go-ahead to the vaccination of the players and coaching staff of the National Team this Wednesday after the uproar generated after Sergio Busquets’ positive. The RFEF requested several months ago that the team be vaccinated before Euro 2020 to avoid taking risks in the face of the important appointment that the team faces in a few days.
However, Health did not agree to his requests at the time and now after seeing the positive from Busquets. The vaccination process will be carried out by the Armed Forces , as is being done with the athletes who will attend the Tokyo Olympics at the end of July. These athletes are receiving the doses of Pfizer, the same that will receive the Spanish team that would not be immunized until the final of the Eurocup.
“We have made the decision to vaccinate the players of the Spanish soccer team as with the Olympians. It is a tremendously important and very necessary decision, ”justified the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias.
Spain will debut in the European Championship next Monday (9:00 pm) against Sweden at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville. The vaccination of the national team comes after last Sunday the positive for Covid-19 of captain Sergio Busquets was known, who was followed this Tuesday by Diego Llorente , which turned out to be a false positive. The Federation announced that the central has tested negative in the two PCR tests carried out in the last hours.
These positives have caused the national coach, Luis Enrique Martínez, to form a second ‘bubble’ of players likely to enter the final call-up of the Eurocup and that has been growing to the 17 footballers concentrated in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas .
According to UEFA regulations, each team can make “unlimited substitutions” in their call up until hours before their first match at the Eurocup in the event of serious injury or illness, which includes Covid infection and also close contact with a positive .
