The Professional Soccer League announced this Thursday that 93.02 percent of the players participating in the competition are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, after a marked advance in recent months after the initial delay.
According to the report, generated from the compilation of the doctors from the different Argentine soccer teams, there are a total of 846 soccer players among the 28 teams in the highest category. Of that number, only six players have not received any doses, while 840 have been vaccinated at least once.
“Of this total, 787 (93.02%) have applied two doses or a complete single-dose vaccination schedule and 53 (6.98%) have only one dose,” the Professional League explained in a statement released on its social networks and on its website. .
Counting the professionals with a single inoculation, the percentage rises to 99.29%, although the objective is to start the 2022 Professional League Cup with all vaccinated, as a result of an agreement that was signed with Argentinian Soccer Players and the AFA.
In fact, Emiliano Vecchio, one of the figures of Rosario Central, who publicly acknowledged being against all kinds of vaccines and medications, posted on his Instagram account that the vaccine was applied because the “club is above everything”. “The love for this club is above my ideology,” completed the captain of Central.
In the previous survey, carried out 20 days ago, more than 15 percent of the soccer players, among whom were the Rosario midfielder, had assured that they had not been vaccinated for “religious” reasons or for personal doubts about the components of the vaccine.