«Where will we play the next ones? Probably at Lido Paradiso: free admission and parmigiana as a tribute to those who were hungry “: jokes via Instagram so as not to despair Marco Laganà, captain of Edilnol who yesterday afternoon traveled from Rieti to Biella, with a pass from the health company that equates the bus transfer to fiduciary isolation and with two positives in a rented car that followed the rest of the team. Yes, because the number of infected rossoblù has risen: after the molecular test which had already confirmed the presence of the virus in a player on Tuesday, the results of the control swabs arrived yesterday added a second member of the team to the list. The company does not mention names even today, even if the list of possibilities is really short: during the season Laganà, Pollone, Hawkins, Berdini, Vincini, Moretti, the under Loro and the athletic trainer Morocco were stopped by the pandemic. Carroll, Miaschi, Barbante, Bertetti and D’Almeida remain even if only two of them – as club manager Marco Atripaldi said – had not yet had to deal with the coronavirus, probably contracted by the others before the start of the season.
The series that is worth saving with Kienergy is suspended at a later date. It is impossible to fix now the recoveries from race-2 onwards: first we must wait for the confirmation of the duration of the quarantine imposed on Edilnol that the Rieti health company has stopped for ten days, including the negative swabs, the immunized for having contracted the virus in the past and who, for example Atripaldi, received the vaccine. Common sense suggests that life returns to normal for them, including training. But the presence of a second positive could discourage a “reduction of the sentence”, a provision that in theory the ASL of Biella has the power to take. As for the dates of the matches, a solution could be to equate them to those of the other series between San Severo and Stella Azzurra, postponed due to the many coronavirus positivity, which will start on Thursday 10 and Saturday 12 June in Puglia with the first two races. Resuming the 12 would mean a further extension to an infinite season, but also an extra week to get back in shape after the obligatory stop for two players and the one possible for the rest of the squad. It would also mean precious time for the opponents from Rieti, who instead were short of athletic condition after the long quarantines, and a chance to recover from the injured at least one between Amici and Stefanelli.