Tuesday March 24, 2020 2:01 PM – Article written by La Rdaction – Comment on this article
With this crisis, football can take advantage of this to reform itself, in particular by focusing the seasons on the calendar years.
What if football took advantage of this crisis to reform itself? In any case, this is the wish expressed by the president of OGC Nice Jean-Pierre Rivère to the daily L’Equipe this Tuesday morning. The leader of the Riviera actually plans to start the next season in February 2021, while basing himself on the late programming of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. This would, in itself, easily end the 2019/2020 fiscal year. “Of course we all want to finish the season as soon as possible, but if we can’t?” Asked the President of Nice. Beyond the current year, let’s try to give coherence to the three seasons to come.
Take advantage of Qatar 2022 to delay the start of the seasons in February
In 2022, the World Cup in Qatar takes place from November 21 to December 18. My idea is to adapt to this offbeat competition, and to today’s unknown. We can take all our time to finish the current season in October or November, and we start next season in February. We can integrate the Euro in June and we finish at the end of October. In 2022, we have a little truce in August and the same process with the World Cup in stride “, explains Jean-Pierre Rivère.
So what exactly would a season that started in February look like?
Already the truce of such a season would take place during the winter months (December, January) and the mini-truce could take place for two weeks in summer. The direct advantage is to take advantage of the land during the most favorable climates. It remains to be seen the availability of amateurs during this period, seeing children is the main difficulty with this proposal.
February 2021 : kick-off of the season
June 2021 : Euro
End of October 2021 : end of season
December / January : truce
February 2022 : start of new season
August 2022 : little truce
October / November 2022 : end of season
November 21-December 18 : World Cup in Qatar
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