Football Club Roma Announces To Return In Training Grounds


Football Club Roma Announces To Return In Training Grounds

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Italian football club Roma also announced to return to their training activities next week amid Coronavirus pandemic. As the current Coronavirus enforced lockdown and halted 2019-20 Serie A season since March due to Coronavirus crisis which has killed over 2,44,500 people worldwide.

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All teams in Italy are set to return to training on May 18, the day after the government’s existing lockdown measures expire but some are scheduled to resume earlier Goal.com reported.

Sassuolo was the first team to announced to return to training activities on Saturday, but every player will be required to follow social distancing guidelines.

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Roma joined Sassuolo and issued a statement, “#ASRoma would like to thank the Lazio Regione for its sensitivity towards team sports. Next week, Roma players will undergo medical assessments and begin individual training sessions – observing safe distancing guidelines – at the Trigoria training centre.”

Earlier, all the twenty clubs in the Italian domestic football competition Serie A had voted in favour of resuming the 2019-20 season whenever possible.

The news was confirmed through a conference call but the final call on the resumption of the the league will be taken by government’s approval.

“Of course we want to play football, it would be against nature to say otherwise. Those who have a profession would always like to continue to do it if it will be possible while respecting health standards and protocols,” Goal.com had quoted Paolo Dal Pino, the Serie A president, as saying.

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“We will strictly adhere to government advice, as we have always done. They can be sure of our constructive and collaborative spirit and that my harmony with the president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina is absolute,” he added.

There have been some reports that few clubs are against restarting the season, with Italy being one of the worst affected countries in Europe by coronavirus. But an agreement has been reached between teams and the Italian football federation.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on April 26 had revealed plans to gradually relax restrictions in the country and allowed the Serie A players to do individual training from May 4.