Italy has introduced a mandatory vaccination requirement for all outdoor sports competitors, with those entering the country to play in international tournaments also subjected to the same rules. This would mean that any unjabbed English rugby player will be excluded from the squad, which is due to play Italy in the Six Nations on February 13th. MailOnline has more.
Italy has joined France in making vaccination compulsory for anyone wanting to play outdoor team sports, meaning Premier League players will need to be jabbed in order to move to Serie A this January.
The Italian Government met this week to implement urgent changes to its Covid restrictions, with every sportsperson in the country, from the professional game to the amateur divisions, needing a ‘Green Pass’ in order to take part.
The ‘Green Pass’ is given out 15 days after a person has been vaccinated for the first time, with the Covid passport-style document also needed to enter swimming pools, festivals, religious buildings, hotels and public transport.
It is unlikely to affect Italy’s top football division as it was revealed earlier this month that 98% of all Serie A footballers are double-jabbed in a league that has been unaffected by the Omicron variant so far.
It is not known how many Liverpool players are vaccinated, though the Premier League did reveal that 16% of top-flight footballers are yet to receive their first dose of the vaccine.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been fully supportive of players getting vaccinated and claimed earlier this month that the club would not be signing any new players who have not had both doses.
“I think it (being vaccinated) will be influential, definitely, in who clubs sign,” said the Liverpool manager. “If a player is not vaccinated at all, he is a constant threat for all of us.
“He doesn’t want to be a threat, it’s not that he thinks ‘I don’t care about the others’ but he is.”
Meanwhile, the England rugby team go to Italy on February 13th for their Six Nations clash, so any players who are not jabbed will be banned from playing.
The new restrictions, which will begin on January 6 when Serie A resumes after its winter break, also affect the fans, who will need a ‘Green Pass’ in order to enter stadia at any level.
Those sports stars who are double-jabbed will also be exempt from any quarantine rules, but are advised to wear a mask for up to a week after their arrival.
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271 athletes injured or dead post vaxx. Italy must really hate their athletes.
Making compulsory the acceptance of an experimental, unlicensed drug by using blackmail like this is utterly abhorrent. How do they excuse it?
”….to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion…”
This is what the Nuremburg Code says about medical experimentation – or doesn’t it count any more?
Dr Mengele would be full of admiration for these people.
“Italy has introduced a mandatory vaccination requirement for all outdoor sports competitors.”
That’ll be interesting when they only have GT jab-free athletes left capable of participating in outdoor sports without collapsing halfway through the event, or “dying suddenly after a short illness”.
I just hope and pray that none of the rugby players suffer heart problems during the Six Nations matches, as so many other professional sports players have, with an unprecedented number of deaths. If an England player in Italy does, because of the vaccine mandate, who will be responsible? The Italian government’s Prime Minister?
I guess the Italian Government wants to have more professional sportsmen collapsing with heart attacks on the pitch.
British Teams should refuse to play in countries which effectively make medical treatments compulsory regardless of the danger to the individual.
I have suspicions club doctors for the most part have been dishing out saline. Would you as an owner risk a load of players worth say 50 million taking experimental shots?
Apparently the Italian junta is now considering imposing mandatory vaccines for all.
So, when every single player in every single league, pro and amateur, is jabbed, and they still keep dropping and twitching on the pitch at an unprecedented rate, how will they spin that?
Well, clearly that will be the fault of anyone in the world who still remains uninjected.
This is quite interesting. So, if, say, the Manchester City star striker is unjabbed, and they are drawn in the Champions League against Roma, he won’t be able to play? How convenient and possibly highly illegal on restraint of trade or whatever. Get the agents involved, these sharks would sort it out. Conversely, our hypothetical Man City management could insist that no Roma players without an “Amo Man City” tattoo on their foreheads would be banned from the home fixture. Makes as much sense.
At the risk of being glib just refuse to play in Italy. Half a dozen clubs adopting such an approach would soon have the I ties thinking again.
Italy and also France.
And in France..
The French State Council Quietly Voted the Vaccine Pass – No Longer Democracy but a Putsch..
The machine is not going to stop unless the people stop it..
https://www.europereloaded.com/the-french-state-council-quietly-voted-the-vaccine-pass/
Dust off those old tumbrils. Get out your knitting….
It was always going to be interntional sport which would be targeted by the unScience zealots. How many deaths on the pitch do they need to see until they relent (and repent).
Sports played at a high level of physical stress pose a much greater risk to those who suffer with even slight heart issues let alone those created and triggered by the indirectly mandatory imposition of a man-made protein. Thankfully prior to 2020 cases of stroke/heart attacks to top grade athletes have been remarkably rare but there have been a few, including in rugby of both codes.
Athletes of all sports should beware.
If I were a jabbed England rugby player and one of my team mates were discriminated against and excluded for not being jabbed I would refuse to play. En masse they might actually change something but I suspect they are all too selfish thesedays. Then again this is the sport which broke the apartheid sanctions. Maybe it could take a step to redeem itself against the new apartheid. Doubt it as rugby union’s connections to and reliance on sponsors such as the technology/telecommunications companies which have been engaged to enslave us is too… Read more »
Don’t sign up players who are good at the game. Sign up good little perforated cretins.Sure way to victory.
Sport apartheid. Vaxxed v Vaxxed, Unvaxxed v Unvaxxed.
Unvaxxed can’t play vaxxed, as the latter would be at a disadvantage. Wouldn’t want to suffer heartache now would they?
They will need to change the rules for vaxxer teams so they can have an extra Myocarditis sub.
David Paton currently has a thread on Twitter about the risk of myocarditis for under 40 males. Seems the risk increases with every injection (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and on and on …) of a covid vaccine. And whilst there is a risk of myocarditis from a covid infection it is smaller and you have to catch covid to face that risk. What a terrible position to put young fit athletes in. How dare they.
Not sure if this link will work to take you to David’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The big picture here is that the rulers don’t want “celebrities” “flaunting” their resistance to “vaccination” while continuing to perform in the public eye. If a football player scores a spectacular goal, or an ice dancing team wins a major competition, or anything happens of that kind, and everybody knows they resist “vaccination”, that gives the “wrong” message entirely.
If an unvaccinated person gets ill, or goes to prison, or does something unpleasant, or says something stupid about another topic, or falls over and hurts themselves, or gets sacked from their job, or is banned from entry into somewhere they want to go, or their wife leaves them for another man, or their house burns down, THAT’S the kind of story the rulers need.
In short, they want the idea to be “Resisters lose”, not “Resisters win”.
Yes indeed – entirely political.
I thought that ‘Discard After Use’ instruction was meant to apply to the syringes, not the players.
Still, in a little while Italy might be able to field the best five-a-side team in the world.
Brilliant article. El gato malo is a funny guy and, most importantly, has a way of getting to the heart of the matter while appropriately ridiculing the main protagonists involved. If you are not subscribed to his Substack, it’s well worth considering. He should have titled the article Tony and the Totalitarians, after this brilliant line from the piece,
‘and while tony and the totalitarians are trying to sell you another album of discordant dissembling, some others are waking up.’
Enjoy:
‘this is not miscommunication, it’s misinformation, and it’s being spread purposefully and with malice aforethought.
‘they told us two shots would work, then it was 3, fauci is already babbling about 4 before boosters in the US have even hit 25%.
‘they told us it would work on variants, instead, leaky vaccines did what leaky vaccines do and selected near instantly for OAS and vaxx evasion.
‘and while tony and the totalitarians are trying to sell you another album of discordant dissembling, some others are waking up.’
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/yes-the-vaccines-were-supposed-to
Should be made a post here.
I details the Orwellian future is fixed past is flexible attitude to history by the MSM government complex.
I hadn’t taken Klopp to be such an unreflective dolt. Perhaps he only sees the news from Deutschland?
This is now all about politics.
The now established fact that the vaccines don’t hinder the spread of the virus, and the emerging fact that they make is more likely for a vaccinated person to be infected, doesn’t seem to be an issue for the various governments around the world. #trustthescience.
What does seem to be important is that no unvaccinated person remains — presumably because then it’ll be very difficult for anyone to work out of the various very rare diseases/conditions that suddenly appear in the population are anything to do with the vaccines.
‘What does seem to be important is that no unvaccinated person remains — presumably because then it’ll be very difficult for anyone to work out of the various very rare diseases/conditions that suddenly appear in the population are anything to do with the vaccines.’
I’m sympathetic to this view, but if all are ‘vaccinated’ then who can the totalitarians and propagandists blame for ‘packed’ and ‘overstretched’ hospitals? Who can they point the finger at for ‘having to keep restrictions in place’?
It seems to me that, at least in the short/middle-term, it is vital for the totalitarians and propagandists that a sizeable proportion of the population remain ‘unvaccinated’.
They need us.
If they got close to 100% jab rates they could simply start saying the hospitals were fine – very few would notice. They could also say people needed quarterly boosters to keep the hospitals fine.
That’s plausible. But think about this from our friend amanuensis,
‘What does seem to be important is that no unvaccinated person remains — presumably because then it’ll be very difficult for anyone to work out of the various very rare diseases/conditions that suddenly appear in the population are anything to do with the vaccines.’
While this is certainly plausible, the totalitarians and propagandists are already denying that these ‘vaccines’ are causing any of the serious adverse events we are seeing. And they are getting away with it.
Either way, I think we can agree that they know they can get away with deceiving the public at large.
They have got away with it and may continue to, and may feel somewhat confident in that, but I think some at least will be worried they will get found out.
If people die with heart attacks, strokes and cancers that is what will go on the death certificate, particularly when post mortem are not allowed.
And they are not as I know personally.
“I think it (being vaccinated) will be influential, definitely, in who clubs sign,” said the Liverpool manager. “If a player is not vaccinated at all, he is a constant threat for all of us.”
Utter. Fucking. Madness.
Yes, just like walking around the changing rooms with a Glock or a machete.
Shame. I used to like Klopp but he’s revealed himself as a dangerous idiot. It’s always the Germans – der panzer cannot change its spots.
I think the Germans make Leopard tanks, you missed an obvious one there.
They used to say similar things about Jewish people back in the old days in Germany
Jurgen Klott has become a figure of loathing.
I hope a highly paid footballer has the money to hire a top lawyer and the balls to take these fascists to court.
I used to like him as a ‘nice Christian’, but he’s just a nice conformist, like everyone who gets ahead in the world.
Bonanza for Spurs and Newcastle – I believe Conte has a shopping list of Serie A players, now available and presumably going cheap.
Everyone advocating that members of the public should require jabs, need to have an in depth independent investigation into their vested interests in anything covid, otherwise they are not worth listening to.
Sadly, most of them are merely useful idiots.
At the least they should be first in line for all jabs, on live television, with independent adjudication as to the content of said inserts. Perfectly safe, aren’t they?
Even as Leeds fan I love the football Klopp’s teams play. However, this guy has really soiled his reputation for me with his constant vaccine rants. He is also full of horseshit. If he has the chance to sign a top player and the player was refusing the vaccine, I don’t believe for a minute he would pull out of the deal. The top, top players are like rocking horse shit, even this buffoon knows that.
And wouldn’t sign for Liverpool anyway.
He is also full of horseshit.
Or, more properly, Pferdscheiss.
…the Germans really do have a word for it, don’t they?
In zis case, ja!
Hi from another lifelong Leeds fan. We’re going down aren’t we.
No – 16th place finish, I’d guess.
It is getting very hard for them to keep the ‘coincidence’ lid on the vaccine injuries and deaths among sportsmen and women – but our now totally corrupt media are doing their very best with their “Nothing to see here, move along approach’.
What a shameful moment it must be to admit to being a mainstream “journalist” !
Indeed it is – I realised with some sadness the other day that I used to feel a certain sense of professional pride when I told people I used to be a BBC journalist, now I feel I need to apologise if it comes up. That kind of crept up on me.
I have always thought that sport, particularly football, would be the arena where the battle for freedom will be fought.
As for Klopp, you can take the man out of Germany, but not the Nazi out of the man.
” See SSC Napoli and die!” ( with apologies to Goethe)
Wanted to up-vote this comment TWICE.
The presence of unvaxxed sports stars was making them look bad. In some ways I am looking forward to what that cunt Klopp has to say when ALL footballers are “fully vaxxed” and they still get “covid”. Hope Djokovic sticks to his guns – his season is going to get very short at this rate.
At some point insurance companies are going to have to acknowledge the vaxx risks, particularly in younger people, particularly the myocarditis risk in young healthy men. At which point they may refuse cover for footballers dropping on the pitch. Some club has just paid out 20 million or whatever ridiculous amount involved in these deals and the player has to quit playing following an unexpected incident on the pitch. Then the clubs can end up on the poverty line like most other people.
Massively important point. The insurance market and actuaries must already be looking at this. And on transfer or contract renewals and players have to undergo medicals the insurers will surely demand the medics perform extra checks.
Falling short of doing biopsies on living players what can they really do though, more in depth scans; ask questions about jabs received, honest answers about side effects; D dimer tests?
D-dimer tests might be informative!
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/5-x-deep-vein-thrombosis-tests-d-dimer-blood-kits-professional-testing/
surprisingly cheap!
This made the lunchtime news on Radio 2 a few weeks ago. Nobody has asked his jab status. Why not?
https://www.espn.com/soccer/barcelona-espbarcelona/story/4527274/barcelonas-sergio-aguero-announces-retirement-from-football-due-to-heart-condition
I’m fortunate to have private health insurance through my employer. I wrote to them last year asking if I was covered for vaccine injuries. Explicitly stated that they do not cover this.