Saturday without hockey due to covid. The expected resumption of tournaments after the year-end break (A1 was supposed to start again on Thursday 5th, tonight may also touch A2) due to the surge in cases due to the Omicron variant, less lethal, but highly contagious, putting all games in place Sports and the entire country is in a difficult situation. In the A1 series alone, 16 games have to be redeemed so far: two full rounds and two more in 2021.

Fisr’s tech sector has planned to restart all top Italian hockey players (A1, A2, women’s, B) this coming weekend when the updated protocol is up (with pre-match pads, capacities, and discounted Ffp2 masks for all. in palasport), And the new rules for contagion that stipulate at least three positives in a team for the club to ask for the match to be postponed. If all goes as expected, at the end of February the upper flight will be reorganized and the season will continue to follow the original calendar.

The problems in the A1 series began with round 11 of December 22 when Lodi Follonica and Tricino Bassano were postponed for a large number of cases in the home team. The two games, originally scheduled for January 12, will resume on Wednesday, February 9. The twelfth day of January is set, the fifth and thirteenth, which is scheduled for Wednesday 23rd and Saturday 26th February. The Coppa Italia quarter-finals run from January to Wednesdays in March, while the quarter-finals (and the A2 and B Women’s Cup and Women’s Cup finals) will take place on 16 and 17 April. The A1 Italian Cup quarter-final pairs, determined by the final classification of the first round, will not be known until after the round of February 26.

The next tournament matches for Gds Impianti Forte dei Marmi will be at the moment on these dates: Vercelli (January 15), Montebello (22), Sandrigo (29), Valdagno (February 9), Sarzana (16), Correggio (20), Matera (23), Grosseto (26), Follonica (March 9). The problems should be much less for other series and European Cups where, with fewer participants, it’s easier to schedule redemptions.

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