Nigeria’s Italy-based duo of William Troost-Ekong at Udinese and Ola Aina at AS Torino will now set their sights on May 17 as the most likely date for them to resume full team training sessions; even after approval was granted all clubs in The Land of The Azzurri to return to team activities this Monday, megasportsarena.com reports.
However, while Troost-Ekong, Aina and other players in the Italian Serie A are set to take advantage of that directive from the country’s government, their respective teams have opted to remain cautious and not hurry back into full boding drills just yet.
This means Troost-Ekong, Aina and other players from all clubs in the Italian top-flight will begin getting back together cautiously on Monday, as they would recall that all centres were initially supposed to remain closed for two more weeks, only for the Italian government to surprisingly give permission for individual practice sessions to resume this week.
The report by goal.com added: “Italian football teams have been given permission from the government to resume training from Monday. The government had initially declared that as of May 4 citizens can exercise in parks and athletes involved in individual sport can begin training again as they begin lifting lockdown restrictions.
“Team sports were initially required to wait a further two weeks before training centres would open again, but regions in Italy such as Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio and Sardinia have given the go-ahead for athletes to return on May 4.
“Many more regions were set to follow that example, prompting minister of sports Vincenzo Spadafora to write to the scientific committee urging them to consider allowing training centres for team sports to open as well. The Italian government has accepted that it would be unfair to prevent other athletes from training and agreed to give permission.
“Serie A clubs will now be allowed to return to individual training until May 17, after which group practice are expected to resume. Sassuolo and Roma had already confirmed they will start individual training sessions and medical assessments next week after their regions lifted restrictions.
“The Italian top-flight looks likely to resume the 2019-20 campaign after all 20 clubs voted in favour of doing so whenever possible at an emergency meeting on Friday, though it is dependent on government approval.”
