Sunday June 27th 2021
The trainer warned
Croatia star Perisic is out with Corona
National coach Zlatko Dalic went into the game against Scotland with a bad feeling. They had just reported a corona case. A few days later, Croatia’s Ivan Perisic is caught. The important player falls out of the round of 16 against Spain.
The Croatian national soccer player Ivan Perisic has been infected with the corona virus and will miss his team in the European Championship round of 16 against Spain. As the Croatian association announced on Sunday night, he received the positive test result from the former Bundesliga professional in the evening as part of a regular series of tests. Perisic was immediately isolated from his teammates and went into a ten-day quarantine. All other members of the Croatian EM squad as well as trainers and supervisors had tested negative.
The vice world champion meets in Copenhagen on Monday (6 p.m. / ZDF and MagentaTV as well as in the live ticker on ntv.de) on Spain. The Croatians will be arriving from their team quarters today. This is located in Rovinj in Croatia. Although Croatia played all three group games in Great Britain, the city on the west coast of the Istrian peninsula in the north of Croatia was chosen because of concerns about the strict Corona regulations. In the worst case, a positive corona test in the United Kingdom could have led to a team quarantine.
Dalic had a bad feeling
However, the positive corona case of Scotland’s Billy Gilmour did not result in a team quarantine for the Bravehearts last week. However, the case made Croatia’s coach Zlatko Dalic feel uncomfortable. “We are concerned but unfortunately we have to play this game,” he said ahead of the Croatia match against Scotland last Tuesday. “I just hope someone else doesn’t test positive. I don’t want it to spread.” Now Ivan Perisic has got it. A connection between the two cases has not been established.
The 32-year-old Perisic is Croatia’s record scorer at the European Championships with four goals. He is also one of the great performers of the team at this year’s tournament. The Inter Milan winger saved at least one draw in the 1-1 draw in the group stage of this European Championship against the Czech Republic. Against Scotland, he secured second place in the group with the goal to make it 3-1. In the Bundesliga he played for VfL Wolfsburg and Borussia Dortmund before winning the triple with FC Bayern in the 2019/2020 season. “He always brings his maximum,” said coach Zlatko Dalic, highlighting Perisic’s performance these days. Even in a possible quarter-final or semi-final, the coach would now have to do without Perisic.
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