The new version of the “Match Organization Protocol” was finalized Tuesday by the LFP, which follows the new instructions of the government.
Le Monde with AFP
The Professional Football League (LFP) finalized, Tuesday, January 4, a new health protocol. Whether they are vaccinated or not against the COVID-19, the players of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 and their frames will now be subject to a mandatory test forty-eight hours before each meeting.
The new version of the “Match Organization Protocol” transmitted to the clubs has also changed the duration of isolation imposed on the positive diagnosed players, following the new instructions of the government.
For those who have a complete vaccination scheme, it will now be seven days (or even if a new test is negative), against ten previously. With an incomplete vaccination scheme, the isolation will extend over ten days, and only seven if a second test is negative in the meantime, according to this document of a hundred pages that the France-Presse agency could consult.
In concrete terms, a vaccinated player can resume training a week after his positive test, in the margins of the collective though and in the absence of any symptoms related to the virus. This recovery phase will last at least seven days. “The collective recovery (training or match) is therefore best in the thirteenth day for a player with a complete vaccination schema with an early isolation output,” says the document, against eighteen incompulsible days before.
Reports of matches in perspective
On the other hand, the rule relating to the reports of the matches remains unchanged. In Ligue 1, a club can request the postponement of a match if it has no more than a minimum of twenty players, including a guard, on its official list of thirty declared, either from eleven players affected at the same time .
The meeting of L1 between Angers and Saint-Etienne, originally scheduled next Sunday, has already been postponed after Club Angevin has announced the detection of nineteen cases in its group. Doubts also appeared for Bordeaux-Marseille Friday, the Girondin Club being particularly touched, as well as Lorient-Lille Saturday.
Since Monday and for a period of three weeks, stages are also subject to gauges set at 5,000 people as part of the braking measures of the CVIV-19 epidemic. In its amended protocol Tuesday, the League suspends the obligation on host clubs to grant places up to 5% of the total capacity of their stages to visitors fans. “It now belongs to each club visited to decide whether or not they want to provide places at the visitor club and, if so, in what proportion”, specifies the document.