COVID-19 has devastated Madrid this season, Perez and Zidane included

The coronavirus has become an important secondary element in the world of football. It has postponed matches, put players out of games and even determined managers' tactics. Real Madrid, following the positive test result of Sergio Ramos, has lived through this experience nine times this season.

In their dressing room, all of Varane, Nacho, Jovic, Hazard, Casemiro and Militao have been affected, which has limited Zidane's options. Even more so taking into account that this has been a distrasous campaign for RM's injury list, with a heightened amount of physical problems.

The manager of 'Los Blancos' has also lived through this situation himself. In January, Bettoni had to put himself in charge in the encounter against Alavés in La Liga, because the Frenchman had to isolate whilst his body fought off the virus. In this case, his absence wasn't so serious as, at the end of the day, he was able to draw up his game proposals from a distance.

Maybe the most worrying case was the president, Florentino Perez. At 74 years-of-age he falls into the age group with the second-highest mortality rate from the virus - around 8% - a statistic that has varied week by week dependening on new pieces of data. Even so, the RM chief, who was recently restored at the helm of the club, overcame the illness in February.

No games postponed

Other clubs that have suffered from the virus as Real Madrid have, in the first and second division but also in other countries, have had to look to how they will postpone some of their matches. One of the most recent examples of this was CD Mirandes in the second division, managed by Jose Alberto.

This provides the perfect precedent with which to demonstrate how 'Los Blancos' have been quite lucky, in the sense that their problems have come over the course of the whole season. Every positive case has been fairly spaced out and there hasn't yet been an outbreak in the squad.