Torino player tests positive for coronavirus ahead of training return.

ROME -- An unidentified player at Serie A club Torino has tested positive for the coronavirus in the first round of testing ahead of the club's planned return to training on Friday.

Serie A clubs have begun to return to training this week after Italy's eight-week lockdown, the longest in Europe, although there has still been no decision on when, or if, the Serie A season can start again.

'During the first medical examinations carried out on the players of Torino FC, a positive result emerged for COVID-19,' the club said on its website on Wednesday.

'The player, currently asymptomatic, was immediately placed in quarantine and will be constantly monitored.' It did not give any further details.

Although Serie A has said that all 20 of its clubs want to restart the season, Torino appear to have been among the less enthusiastic.

The club's president Urbano Cairo said last week that Italy should already be thinking about next season.

Neighbours Juventus, who began training on Tuesday, said that Argentina forward Paulo Dybala, one of three members of their squad who were infected in March, had tested negative.

'The player is therefore cured and no longer undergoing the home isolation regime,' said the Serie A champions.

Brescia captain Daniele Gastaldello, however, said his entire squad opposes resuming the season, with his team based in the Lombardy region where nearly 15,000 people have died from the coronavirus.

'In Brescia we've all been touched,' Gastaldello told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published Thursday. 'We all know someone who has been directly hit by the tragedy. We've realised how little it takes to ruin a family.'

While most clubs in the league are resuming training on an individual basis this week, last-placed Brescia are one of the holdouts.

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