I do not know whether football is important or health. There is nothing to talk about football."

The statement camefrom Sumgayit 's head coach Aykhan Abbasov at a press conference after the match with Gabala

(0: 1), Offsideplus.az reports. The 39-year-old specialist spoke about the difficulty of his coronavirus condition.

- Do you want the championship to stop due to coronavirus?

- I also want the championship to continue. True, football continues in Europe. The clubs there have 25-30 players. I can't catch people infected with the coronavirus. It is said that a person infected with the virus recovers in 14 days, but in our country, it appears 1 week later. I do not understand, what is needed, we all need to be infected with the virus? Although the test result is negative, we play players with symptoms. I don't know how we will find 11 people for the match with Zira.

- Have you appealed to the PFL to postpone the games?

- We have to play and we play. The PFL says the virus should be detected in seven players. What should we do? That's why I don't want to talk about football today. We test two days ago, it turns out negative. The player is well in the afternoon, but the temperature rises in the evening. The player must stay at home after the test. Maybe we should wait until December. We don't have a reserve player, we can't make substitutions. In a team of 5-6 million, there is a reserve player. Our reserve was young people, and some of them were not there today. We would also like to have a large staff. Karam Sultanov and Elvin Badalov also have a fever.