An Analysis Safe Protocols Employed in Professional Male Soccer and the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the 2020 Brazilian Championship

Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Leonardo Jose; Albuquerque, Pedro da Gama Roberto de; Vasconcellos, Gabriel de Almeida; Nascimento, Rodrigo Mendonça do; Cavalari, Nadine Tonelli; Range, Daniel; Guimarães-Mataruna, Andressa Fontes; Ortiz-Silva, Bianca

An Analysis Safe Protocols Employed in Professional Male Soccer and the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the 2020 Brazilian Championship

Date

2021

Authors

Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Leonardo Jose

Albuquerque, Pedro da Gama Roberto de

Vasconcellos, Gabriel de Almeida

Nascimento, Rodrigo Mendonça do

Cavalari, Nadine Tonelli

Range, Daniel

Guimarães-Mataruna, Andressa Fontes

Ortiz-Silva, Bianca

Publisher

MDPI

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic directly reached and impacted upon elite sports and caused the postponement of sporting events globally. In order to enable the return of activities, protocols were created with recommendations to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The objective of this work is to analyze and compare the safe return protocols of major football leagues and associations to those of the Brazilian Championship, as well as to survey the numbers of COVID-19 outbreaks in clubs that competed in the 2020 Brazilian Championship Series A. The documentary research was carried out through the analysis of articles published on open-source football league and federation websites. National and international return protocols were verified, as well as the documenting of isolated cases and outbreaks of COVID-19 in the Brazilian Championship. In the Brazilian Championship, the return to play occurred at a time when COVID-19 case numbers were rising, a fact that, together with the decentralization of the match cities, was likely linked to the number of positive cases. A total of 302 positive cases of COVID-19 were identified in 14 outbreaks during the competition. Therefore, this work identifies good practice and underscores the need to reassess and refine the protocols to minimize the impacts of COVID-19 going forward. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Description

This article is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this article is published in Sustainability (2021), available online at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413585

Keywords

COVID-19, soccer protocol, Brazilian Championship

Citation

Mataruna-Dos-Santos, L. J., de Albuquerque, P. D. G. R., Vasconcellos, G. A., Do Nascimento, R. M., Cavalari, N. T., Range, D., . . . Ortiz-Silva, B. (2021). An analysis safe protocols employed in professional male soccer and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 Brazilian championship. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(24). http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413585

URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413585
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/477

Collections

Sport Management

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