UDINE. Less than three weeks before the start of the championships (and one month for the youth ones), amateur sport begins to define the framework of the rules on health protocols to be adopted for the management of competitive activities and training.
Naturally, you will benefit from outdoor activities, which can enjoy less heavy restrictions, starting with football, which in the amateur field will adopt the mandatory Green pass only for leagues of national interest, namely the D series, Excellence and the C series of five-a-side football, approved for professional sport.
For all the other championships, including the youth categories, the protocol made official three days ago by the National Amateur League provides for a mandatory health screening at the start of the season, followed by a confirmation swab seven days later. Screening and swab which will not be required for members with a Green pass.
In the following months the members (players, staff and managers of the clubs, as well as the referees) will be able to continue the activity regularly by presenting a self-certification to be renewed every fifteen days (always in the case in which they are not already in possession of the green certification).
Also valid for youth activities, the rules in force therefore exclude from the obligation of the Green Pass all competitions that are not of national interest. The commitment of the National Amateur League, however, is to promote vaccination among all members of age, and Friuli Venezia Giulia will also move in this direction.
To confirm this, during a meeting held at the University of Udine regarding the new masters and specialized courses in administration and management of sports clubs, the president of the regional committee Figc Ermes Canciani: “The regional committee of Sicily – explained Canciani – it has already approved a protocol to that effect and other regions are about to move along the same path, such as Liguria and Tuscany, with which we are already in contact ».
Returning to the rules of the protocol, outside the leagues of national interest, the Amateur League imposes the obligation of the Green pass only in the case of activities carried out indoors (think not only of 5-a-side football, but also of the possible hypothesis of indoor training, allowed only for athletes in possession of green certification). As for the public, the facilities will be open with a capacity of 50%, as in the professional championships.
Among the main discriminators to affect the rigidity of the rules, of course, there is the distinction between outdoor and indoor activities. And the most penalized, among the latter, are obviously sports where there are greater opportunities for physical contact.
This is the case of basketball, where the rules, at present, impose severe limits for athletes over 12 who are not vaccinated: “Those who do not have a Green pass – explains the president of the Fip regional committee Giovanni Adami – must show a tampon with validity not more than 48 hours.
It is a strict protocol and I am aware that the families of younger athletes are faced with a difficult alternative, but these are rules defined at national level and which take into account objective risk factors.
But more than a month is missing from the start of the championships and I am confident about the possibility of introducing less restrictive rules: it will depend on the trend of the infection curve in the school, which will be the obligatory reference and the litmus test for all youth sport ». –
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