Mattia Perin is one of the 14 people at Genoa to have contracted coronavirus AFP/Kevin C. CoxMILAN: Serie A club Genoa on Wednesday demanded that their match against Torino this weekend be postponed after 14 people from their team and staff tested positive for coronavirus.
UEFA rules state that a match can take place as long as a team can count on 13 healthy players, including a goalkeeper, but Genoa's sporting director Daniele Faggiani said that his players cannot prepare for Saturday's home match as the players are self-isolating."We are all in home quarantine. The local health authorities have stopped us. We cannot play Saturday against Torino even with 13 players available.
Goalkeeper Mattia Perin and midfielder Lasse Schone missed Genoa's 6-0 Serie A defeat at Napoli on Sunday after contracting COVID-19, and 12 others returned positive tests after the game.Italian media report that Genoa say a second round of tests confirmed the 14 positives cases that the club had originally announced on Monday.
Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that"the conditions to stop the championship have not been met".
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