The wheel of fortune of Edilnol suddenly jammed in an analysis laboratory in Rieti. After the episodes in favor of the final match-1, the gods of basketball (assuming that we can still talk about basketball) presented a very high bill: yesterday’s game was postponed following a decision by the Lazio healthcare company after the positivity to the coronavirus of a rossoblù player. Not only that: the authority that oversees public health has imposed ten days of fiduciary isolation on the entire team group, a hyper-prudential measure decided even before the molecular control tests. Only today will the results of the second swab arrive after the first rapid was negative for all the others. And only today the team could have the green light at least to return to Biella where (perhaps) a provision of the local ASL could allow non-positives to train regularly without staying indoors when healthy.
Hypothesis, for now: in the rossoblù lair, in a hotel in Rieti, the predominant feeling is discouragement for the umpteenth adversity of an A2 series that does not accept truce and normality. Everything changed in a few hours, after the confidence taken in race-1: on Monday evening the rapid swabs launched the first alarm, confirmed yesterday by the molecular test, to which all were then subjected, went to the drive-in station with the bus . But until late in the morning the only thought was preparing for the game, even with one less player.
The club does not confirm, pending the results of all the exams, but the clues point to D’Almeida, the only one not to appear in the social mini-videos shot from the stands of the PalaSojourner in the finishing training. After all, the fingers of one hand are enough to count the players who have not yet passed the coronavirus test: in addition to number 7, Carroll, Bertetti and Barbante remain.
Now the series needs to be rescheduled. Regulations in hand, there is time until 11 July to close it and, with a look at the calendar, you can imagine a race-2 in the first weekend of June, after quarantine. Edilnol could have played it anyway yesterday even with one less player, according to federal protocols, already “fixed” in the absurd second phase that Rieti has faced with less than eight effective on the scoresheet. But the provision of the health authority beats the sports provisions. And he gives a few more days of training to the rivals of the rossoblù, who have just come out of an emergency and quarantines.