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COLOMBO : Brighton chief executive Paul Barber has confirmed a third player at the club has tested positive for coronavirus. The unnamed player will go into 14-day isolation while he recovers from the virus.
PA reports the rest of the Brighton squad will continue to train as they have been doing during the lockdown, both at home and in solo sessions at the club’s training ground. Two other players, whose names have also not been revealed by the club, contracted the virus earlier in the pandemic. They are understood to have since recovered but it is not clear whether or not they have returned to training yet.
Barber said on Sky Sports News: “Unfortunately we have had a third player test positive just yesterday. Despite all the measures we have all been taking over the last few weeks, when the players haven’t been involved in taking any significant training at all, we have still suffered another player testing positive for the virus.
“There are concerns and I think it is normal for all clubs to have those concerns. We want to make sure we do all that we can that the protocols that are put into place are safe and secure and mitigate the risk.”
Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club , commonly referred to as simply Brighton, is an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. The club’s home ground is the 30,750-capacity, Falmer Stadium, situated in Falmer to the north east of the city.
