Convinced that stopping the 2019-2020 Ligue 1 season was a mistake, Jean-Michel Aulas put a coin back into the machine in the columns of L’Equipe. “It is nevertheless paradoxical that a country like Spain, which has been more affected than France by the pandemic, has thought about and found answers. (…) We say that we are really too stupid “, he launched, in reference to the return of La Liga scheduled for the week of June 8 with the approval of the Spanish government.
Co-president of UNFP, the professional players’ union, Philippe Piat made a point of responding to the president of Lyon. “We will see at the end if we are idiots. It’s the future that will tell us,” he said to L’Equipe, before explaining that the LFP was ready to resume on June 17 but that “it was the letter from Canal + announcing the breach of the contract on TV rights (April 30), shortly before a board of directors, which was the last straw”.
“It’s easy to say now that we were wrong”
Concerning the championships which resume or which are about to do it, he estimates that they make “a bet on the future”. “A month ago there were hundreds of deaths a day in France. It is easy to say now that we were wrong,” he said. The decision to end the Ligue 1 season was taken on April 30 by the League’s board of directors, in accordance with government directives.
Ligue 1 could be the only championship, among the five great Europeans, to remain at a standstill since the Bundesliga has already restarted, the Liga has set a date for resumption, while returns from the Premier League and Serie A still depend on political decisions. A recovery in mid-June remains a possible scenario in England. On the Italian side, the Minister of Sports Vincenzo Spadafora expressed Friday his “optimism” regarding a return to Serie A in the coming weeks.
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