May 1, 2020
Spanish professional football has to wait a little longer for an appointment to restart the current season. “At the moment, it is impossible to set a deadline for the competitions to resume,” Irene Lozano, director of the Supreme Sports Authority (CSD), said on Spanish television late Thursday evening.
You have to wait and see “how everything develops, including the numbers of the corona pandemic,” said Lozano. La Liga plans to restart between 14th and 28th June under strict security requirements.
In Spain, which was hit particularly hard by the pandemic, professional athletes can resume training individually on Monday. The clubs also want to test their players for the new corona virus next week. As part of the four-step plan presented by the government to return to a “new normal”, depending on the situation in individual provinces, the training grounds should be reopened between May 11 and 18.
What is certain is that until further notice all games will take place before empty ranks. “As long as we don’t have a vaccine, it’s unthinkable that we have games with viewers,” said Lozano. The country’s top sports director said football would serve as the “locomotive for all sports in Spain”. “Professional football accounts for 1.4 percent of our economic output and employs tens of thousands of people,” she emphasized.
League operations in Spain have been suspended since March 12. With more than 24,500 deaths and over 213,000 infections, the country has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
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