Cardiff, Toulouse’s future opponent in the European Cup, has left South Africa
Cardiff club see the end of the tunnel. Stranded in South Africa, where they were on a tour as part of the URC (ex-Pro 14), because of the new variant of Covid-19, the Welsh were finally able to board a plane this Friday morning and take off.
The forty-two players and staff affected by the trip were tested negatively five days in a row. The fourth attempt to leave African territory was therefore the right one. Unfortunately, six of them could not respond to this drastic policy, and remained in South Africa, in Cape Town more precisely, because positive during the final tests.
Cardiff will field a mixed team of internationals and U21s
“They are in good health, and they are receiving the best possible care”, explained a Cardiff executive. The others will land this Friday evening in Dublin. But they will not stay there, they will then take a connection to London where they will have to observe a quarantine of ten days, in a hotel.
They cannot therefore be selected to play the first European Cup match of the season, at home, on Saturday 11 December against Toulouse. But the Welsh leaders were reassured that the match against the reigning European champion would take place, shown explaining that they were fielding a team made up of Welsh internationals, who had not taken part in the trip, and young people. from the training center.