The J. League isn’t ridding itself of COVID-19 anytime soon.
This week saw the first postponements of the season after a cluster of infections emerged within the Gamba Osaka camp, expanding to five players and one team staffer as of Thursday night.
After one player reported a fever on Tuesday morning and was found to have tested positive on Tuesday night, the rest of the team — including the squad that had already traveled east ahead of Wednesday’s first-division tie against Nagoya Grampus — were tested, with two players and one staffer returning positives early Wednesday morning.