Monday, 30 March, 2020
Just another day in The Bunker, Day XXII of the Great Italian Lockdown to be exact.
I followed the Prime Directive on this rarest of rainy days this Winter, I did indeed STAY AT HOME.
How I miss these
kind of happenings . . .
It has now been 27 days since our last Skorpions practice.
And counting . . .
A reminder from WWII England
I guess all of the washing of my
hands could be worse after all
I needed a little bit of Italian cultural humor in the afternoon.
One of our players made me laugh with this . . .
"Only Essential Services Are Open"
Good Bless the Italians
They turned Milano's big exhibition center into a hospital in just ten days.
Finally, some news that could affect our Varese Skorpions' situation.
A Key Cancellation
I mentioned in yesterday's post having been on the American Football International podcast with a panel of coaches and players from all over the world discussing our sport and the Coronavirus' effects on our seasons.
One of the panelists was Barbara Allaria from FIDAF, Italy's American football governing body.
She said that one of the reasons that FIDAF had not yet cancelled the 2020 season was concern for our national teams scheduled to compete in this Summer's two big tournaments, the U19 World Championships and the Flag Football World Championships.
Today, both of those competitions were cancelled forcing FIDAF's hand a bit sooner than they wanted I think.
Then this happened . . .
Federazione Italiana Rugby
A Key break in the Ranks
Barbara Allaria also mentioned yesterday that at the beginning of all of our various Italian sports being shut down, the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) had called for a meeting.
This meeting consisted of representatives from all of the governing federations of all of the sports in Italy to come up with a plan to deal with the possible re-opening or cancellation of our seasons.
At that meeting, everyone agreed that no individual federation would cancel their season independently. They all agreed to work together through CONI, and have a joint announcement at the proper time somewhere down the road covering every sport's status.
We have as of yet heard nothing from CONI on this matter.
CONI and all of the federations would be both UNITED and STRONG in their shared responses to the Coronavirus outbreak and its countermeasures.
Today, the Italian Rugby Federation bolted from that agreement and cancelled the rest of their 2019-20 season.
Who will be next?
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