La Liga can resume week of June 8 - Spanish Prime Minister
24 May, 2020
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Saturday that La Liga can resume from its coronavirus lockdown in the week of June 8.
“The resumption of major professional sporting competitions and in particular La Liga will be allowed from the week of June 8,” Sanchez told a press conference
La Liga president Javier Tebas has said the recommended date for games to resume is Friday, June 12 and Sanchez’s announcement implies that plan has been given the green light from the federal government.
“We are very pleased with the decision. It's the result of the fantastic work of clubs, players, coaches,” wrote Tebas on Twitter.
“But it is vital to follow medical protocol and respect the trajectory of the pandemic. We can not lower our guard.”
More than 8 weeks following the COVID-19 pandemic halted the growing season in Spain, players have begun trained in small groups because they try to be as ready as possible for the planned reboot next month.
Barcelona sit top of the table, two points before Real Madrid.
Clubs have 11 games left to play to finish the growing season, with the proposed final round to be completed by the end of July.
The Andalusian derby between Real Betis and Sevilla is likely to be the first game back.
A compressed calendar means teams playing matches both in midweek and at weekends while fixtures will be held nowadays, with only 197 people permitted to attend, according to a protocol made by La Liga.
Players will also undergo tests for coronavirus your day before games and can have their temperatures taken before being permitted to enter stadiums.
“When you go out the risk has already been there,” Barcelona captain Lionel Messi told Mundo Deportivo earlier this month.
“THEREFORE I think you can’t consider it an excessive amount of because otherwise you’ll not want to venture out anywhere.”
La Liga’s staggered training programme meant players started working individually at training grounds on May 4 and could actually expand into sets of up to 10 players this week.
The top flight was initially suspended on March 12, the same day Real Madrid went into quarantine following positive test of one of the club’s basketball players.
But Tebas has been adamant the league must restart, having estimated a cancellation of the season would cost clubs around one billion euros ($1.09 billion).
France’s Ligue 1 has been cut short, with Paris Saint-Germain declared champions, while the Bundesliga in Germany became the first major European league to resume nowadays last weekend.
Tebas has said the opportunity is low of players infecting the other person during games.
“In the match environment, infection is practically impossible because we've carried out a report that we will show that shows the smallest risk is in matches if everyone respects the medical protocol,” Tebas said earlier this month.
“If things are done because they should be, there shouldn’t be any infections. If five infections come in one club, it would suggest some negligence.”
Spain has been around lockdown since March 12 and is among the worst-affected countries by coronavirus, with 28,628 deaths in line with the Ministry of Health.
But Sanchez said “the hardest part has ended”, with the reproduction rate right down to 0.2 and the number of confirmed daily deaths in the united states dropping to 48 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, your choice to restart the Spanish season was praised by Lyon - who play in the French League.
Lyon have observed an appeal over a decision to call off the French Ligue 1 season fail, an outcome which left the seventh-placed side outside the Champions League spots for next season.
“Following the Bundesliga, it (La Liga) may be the second major championship which sees a resumption confirmed,” said a club statement.
“Lyon hopes that the exemplory case of Spain coming from then on of Germany allows a reconsideration of a decision taken too hastily in France.”
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