The president of the League of Spain, Javier Tebas, He showed his enthusiasm this Sunday before the possibility that Thursday June 11 is the day of the resumption of the championship, suspended by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, and that is with the derby between Seville and Betis.
According to how the team’s training sessions and the unconfinement plan applied by the Spanish government are developed, “it is possible that on Thursday the 11th we could have the first League game,” he said. Javier Thebes on the Movistar Plus television platform.
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“We would like it to be the Sevillian derby” at 22:00 (20:00 GMT), he specified Thebes.
“It would be our hope to have a single league game” that day, so that the teams “play exclusively for all of Spain, almost as a tribute to this lap of the league and what happened. “
The president of the League of Spain He stated that in the next few days there will be an official announcement about the restart date of the championship, but “what is certain is that it will be the weekend of the 12th.”
Thebes insisted that he would like to be able to start the remaining eleven days of the championship on June 11, but “if not, it will be 12, 13 or 14 even.”
Sevilla-Betis would be the first post-coronavirus League match in Spain.
The president of the League He pointed again to the weekend of June 12, after Saturday, the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that “the week of June 8 will authorize the resumption of major sports and professional competitions and in particular the professional soccer league. “
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Javier Thebes He thanked the decision of the Spanish government and announced that “at the beginning of next week” the official announcement with the start date of the League and the schedule of the first four days could come.
The president of the League of Spain However, he insisted on being cautious and remembering that it will be necessary to see how the phases of the unconfinement plan and the training of the teams continue to evolve.
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Spanish clubs are training in groups of ten players, following the League’s sanitary protocol, before moving on to collective training.
“The groups completely, I think it will be for next Monday (June 1),” he said. Thebes. “We must not run, we have to be very cautious,” he said.
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