Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes wearing of mask in every public space will ensure games will not be played Olin closed stadiums due to the surge of COVID-19 cases.
He advised fans to wear masks in stadiums and not on designated environment to help put to check the spread of the virus and prevent facing football being played behind close doors.
“I would not love it, honestly. You cannot imagine how different it is playing with people. But cases rise all around the world, not only in the UK, and in the football bubbles. These people go to the stadiums and can contaminate [others because] in the stadiums, people don’t use masks.
“It’s what I’m surprised about the most – you go to the street, big malls, places to buy presents for the family, no one wears a mask. The scientists from the beginning say the most protection you can have is via hand sanitisers and [face masks].
“In Spain now it will be an obligation not just in [some] places but outdoors. So on the street you have to wear it. We should start again – you know [fans at matches should be] vaccinated, have a booster if this is what is decided, but as part of that, hand sanitiser, social distance and masks too. Like this, the restaurants could still be open, football could go on. We have to try to do it, otherwise, you know, another [ban] may be coming. [And] it [may] be again and again.”
Guardiola says that Ederson, along with City’s other South American players, Fernandinho and Gabriel Jesus, suffer when returning to the club after the international break. “There was a period this season when Eddy came back from previous internationals with Brazil and was a bit low, a bit sad, and sometimes that happens in a season,” he said. “But over the last two or three weeks in his training sessions I feel this is the best Eddy we have had.
