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Chelsea can field only vaccinated players against Lille in UCL as France make Covid jab compulsory for athletes

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France president Emmanuel Macron announced that full, double-vaccinations will be made mandatory for professional athletes in the country, starting from January 15, 2022.

This means that if a player has not taken the vaccine or only has one dose, he will not be able to compete in a professional sports game in France.

This news is especially relevant for Chelsea as the Blues are set to travel to 

 early in March for the second leg of their 

 have come out and confirmed that they have taken the vaccine. 

Thomas Tuchel also confirmed that he was double-vaxxed - however, he refused to force his stance on any of his players, stating that it is a personal choice and he 

'I missed my son's birthday': Lukaku on his Covid-19 struggles

"It's difficult for us as players but everyone in the world. Everyone in the world is going through difficult times, you have to make sure you check on each other often to see if you're okay mentally and stuff," 

 told ESPN when asked about his experience of Covid-19.

"As a man, I try to check on my friends, on people that are important to me, to make sure that they are okay. It's not easy, you cannot see your loved ones. You miss a lot of stuff.

"I missed my son's birthday, I spent Christmas in isolation by myself. Hopefully there will be an end to this."

 for Covid-19 before the Everton game. He missed three games as he had to enter quarantine.

The Belgian returned to the squad against 

Tuchel rallies for Premier League to re-introduce five substitutions during COVID crisis 

Chelsea have been suffering from a COVID and injury crisis - the club's request to postpone the last game was denied and they could field only four outfield players on the bench.

Manager Thomas Tuchel has a suggestion on how the 

 can tackle this situation. He told Sky Sports: "I just can say on this occasion I would love to push for five substitutions.

"Because five substitutions were made to protect the players when coronavirus popped up and made life difficult.

"I think the situation is very serious and very challenging so if we decided to keep on playing at least we should have five changes to control the load."

The Premier League allowed five substitutions in the summer of 2020 when football resumed after the first lockdown. However, they did not agree to extend this for the 2020/21 season and it has been scrapped since.

 and most other European leagues, including La Liga and Serie A, have decided to keep it. It should be interesting to see if the Premier League decides to go down this route.

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football is dead already, fuck the vaccine

Robert Bryan

Your statement is laughable. A research carried out by the Virginia Department of Heath in the U.S. shows for every 100 covid infected patient, 80 are unvaccinated and 20 are  fully vaccinated (breakthrough infection). Secondly, for every 209 hospitalizations, only 42 are fully vaccinated and these are typically people with compromised immune systems like cancer patients etc. Go to https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/covid-19-in-virginia/covid-19-cases-by-vaccination-status/
and it's all there. There'll never be a vaccine that is 100% effective. But anything is better than zero.

Tom CFC 4 Life

Let's believe online conspiracy then and ignore science. smh!

No you don't know what you're saying. Research with 300,000 people is not the same as "me and my circle of friends". The vaccine doesn't stop covid infections and hospitalizations. It reduces it by about 80%. That is very significant because if everyone was vaccinated, we would have an 80% reduction worldwide

Then, it's mandatory for UEFA to take the match outside France, otherwise the competition will die gradually.
So sad for football.

Ambrose Ogbekile

chelseafan1638140855822484532

If Chelsea can't comply, then it should drop out of the competition.
France will not change their national policy because of Chelsea football club and its players...

Nuhu Mazai

Jealous mazai did you ask your self if all the players in Lille have all been vaccinated?

Chinedu Charles Okoh

Chinedu Charles Okoh, jealous of what??, this is not a beer parlor so conduct yourself properly..... 🙄🙄

you deviated from the question in my context???

Chinedu Charles Okoh, the leadership of the country has put a vaccination mandate in place for any foreigner entering the country in order to protect their people...... 1 football club will not be exempted....
If you truly want to know if lille is vaccinated, GOOGLE is your friend, just ask or send a mail to the club and they will respond to you.

Copied from ballnewsfrance.com
As reported by L’Équipe, the outbreak of Covid among Lille’s administrative staff has grown to 30 cases. Three members of staff have made complaints over accusations that the club did not encourage employees to work from home after the first cases were discovered. Having all been tested, the first team, already kept at a distance from office staff, have not been affected. Currently, fully vaccinated Ligue 1 players are not tested regularly for Covid and all but two of Lille’s squad have been vaccinated according to the sports daily.

Simon Timperley, the return leg in France is around the 16th March 2022...... If Chelsea FC can get their footballers to take the jabs, they have time to be fully vaccinated since it is like 6 weeks apart.
If CFC decides to joke around, and and the mandate remains in force, then CFC can select from the junior team to fill the squad in order not to get fined.

Where did you get the idea that this vaccine does work? No vaccine is 100%. But it most definitely works. Ask any epidemiologist you can find.

Doesn’t work? Where did you get your medical degree? Where do you get your, obviously wrong, information? You can argue the human rights aspect of the issue (take it up Wittgenstein French government and see where you get), but not the science.

Bluebyu

Vaccines are meant to be 99% protection against any kind of deadly disease all over the world. Covid -19 is a scam, therefore no Chelsea players should be force to take it.

Charles Adoghe

I call bullshit on your comment. It runs completely contrary to all reported statistics and medical testimony. You’re just making up shite to attempt to justify your own ignorance.

Scam? Tell that to the families of all the people around the world who have died. I strongly recommend this thing we call education.

They must have died of something else not this so called covid.- 19 which is absolutely the biggest scam the world has ever experienced.

Do you realize just how ignorant you sound? Go to school and learn something.

I have no problem with this policy. Of course, I believe in science. I also believe that these players get paid a huge amount of money and this amounts to a protection of the team’s investment. Certainly not everyone will agree with me, but I really don’t give a shite.

Player		G
Erling Haaland	Man City	27
Cole Palmer	Chelsea	22
Alexander Isak	Newcastle	21
Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	19
Philip Foden	Man City	19

Chelsea can field only vaccinated players against Lille in UCL as France make Covid jab compulsory for athletes

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