A delegate from the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) informed the club “in the stadium” that the test carried out on Valdivia before the match had been “positive”, which led to Avai replacing him at the break, the team said. training.
“He is asymptomatic”, and “now the club is working on how to organize his isolation and his return” in Florianopolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina (south), where Avai is based, we have added.
Valdivia, 26, had obtained a negative result in a test carried out 72 hours before this match played against the CSA in the Rei Pelé stadium in Maceio (eastern Brazil). A new test was carried out on Saturday morning, with a view to the next match (scheduled for Tuesday in Florianopolis against Juventude), with therefore an opposite result.
The health protocol of the CBF imposes tests 72 hours before each match.
Brazil, which is with 209,000 deaths the second country most bereaved by the pandemic behind the United States, has experienced an upsurge in infections and deaths since November, exacerbated by the holiday season.
