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Spain awaiting confirmation they will get jabs before Euro 2020
Manager will stand by Sergio Busquets after positive test

Luis Enrique has said there is no confirmation that the Spain team will be vaccinated against Covid-19, despite the country’s health minister announcing that she had agreed to go ahead two days before the European Championship begins. The Spain manager also insisted he would wait for Sergio Busquets, who is four days into a 10-day quarantine having been forced to leave the training camp after testing positive for the disease. The Spain captain will miss their first game against Sweden on Monday.
Spain’s health minister, Carolina Darias, said on Wednesday night that the players would be vaccinated just as the country’s Olympians had been, with the first dose of the Pfizer jab expected to be administered by the army on Thursday. But that has not yet happened and on Thursday Luis Enrique said that “negotiations”, led by the federation president, Luis Rubiales, were continuing. Luis Enrique appeared to harbour doubts about doing so now rather than a month ago. Continue reading...