Spanish professional football has to wait for a restart date

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 competitions to resume,” Irene Lozano, director of the Supreme Sports Authority (CSD), said on Spanish television on Thursday night.

You have to wait and see “how everything unfolds, including the numbers of the crown pandemic,” Lozano said. The League plans to restart between June 14 and 28 under strict security requirements.

In Spain, which was particularly affected 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 government’s four-step plan to return to a “new normal,” depending on the situation in the individual provinces, the training camps are due to reopen between May 11 and 18.

The truth is that until further notice all games will take place before the empty rows. “As long as we don’t have a vaccine, it’s unthinkable that we have games with viewers,” Lozano said. The country’s main sports director said that football would be the “locomotive for all sports in Spain.” “Professional soccer represents 1.4 percent of our economic production and employs tens of thousands of people,” he emphasized.

The league’s operations in Spain have been suspended since March 12. With more than 24,500 deaths and more than 213,000 infections, the country has been particularly affected by the pandemic.