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13:00 – In the last 24 hours, the number of deaths from coronavirus in Spain has increased by 185, reaching 25,613 deaths since the start of the pandemic. On the other hand, 867 people were infected (219,329 in total).
12:37 – In today’s edition, Corriere dello Sport tries to take a photograph and give interpretations of the waiting moment that Italian football is experiencing. FIGC and Lega, we read, are convinced that they have done everything necessary for the reboot and continue to trust that the season can end. President Gabriele Gravina is waiting for a call from the Scientific Technical Committee to discuss the protocol and training of the team. On the other hand, study the movements before the federal council on Friday. Thursday will be a good day for the Lega assembly in which Dal Pino and De Siervo will speak with the 20 companies A to understand how to deal with television rights and with the broadcasting organizations, specifically if they should take legal action immediately ( with Sky, Dazn and Img) or try to continue the dialogue.
12:13 – Manuele Baiocchini, who spoke at Sky Sport 24, spoke about the progress of the Milan players for the resumption of training. This morning, starting at 09:30, the medical visits of the Rossoneri players began: they will be staggered for three days, until the day after tomorrow, with groups of 7-8 players per day. Also check Pioli and his staff, but the most exhaustive tests are those of the players: stress tests, electrocardiogram, blood tests. On Thursday, those who have already taken the tests will be able to train in the three fields of Milanello in groups divided by the three fields: 12 in the morning and 12 in the afternoon. You will work on cardio and strength, and if possible he will also use the ball. This morning, the players who carried out the controls at the “La Madonnina” clinic were Bonaventura, Biglia and Duarte, and there are expected to be others during the day. Ibrahimovic and Kessie have not yet returned to Italy: the Swede wants a certain date to return. If they return today, they must still observe 14 days of quarantine as required by decree.
11:16 – Everyone, abroad, awaits the Bundesliga: tomorrow, Angela Merkel should decide whether to start the recovery of the German championship or if it will end. In Italy, La Repubblica newspaper said, presidents called for a tax relief and certain dates for recovery, including in September. Some have also proposed to the Football Federation that it ask the government for a decree to block promotions and relegations, on the model of the 2003 “save football” decree: the effect would be a Series A with 22 teams and a B for the 20 or 21 years. However, President Gravina doesn’t even seem to be evaluating the possibility, but instead plans to solve the championship with playoffs and playouts: He will not present the proposal to the Federal Council on Friday, before waiting to understand what the government wants to decide.
10:47 – The sports section of the La Stampa newspaper opens today with the headline: “Phase two”. Perhaps it is just an illusion, given that the recovery of the Serie A is still hanging by a thread, but seeing the players return to action is another sign of normality that physically inaugurates Phase 2 of the sport and our lives. The strictly individual and well-spaced training comes out of the isolation of the house to return to the usual fields, while the world of football rediscovers rituals and protagonists who risked stopping permanently.
10:33 – “First races”. This is the title on page 36 that Corriere della Sera dedicates to the resumption of training: “I work in groups of six and in very rigid shifts: this is how Italian football returned to the track. Sassuolo and Lecce opened the training spaced yesterday Today depends on Juve, the return of Inter has been reduced in a few days. In the Bundesliga, 10 positive results of 1,724 tests in the first and second series. “
10:17 – The Minister of Sports, Vincenzo Spadafora, has published a long interview with Corriere della Sera. These are some of his statements: “Most Italians do not appreciate the resumption of the championship. But I do not care about the polls at the moment. Soccer is an important world in the country, I know it very well unlike those who want pass a championship. ” different message. It would be surreal for a sports minister to demonize football. I hope to start again, but the government will decide. The team’s training will resume from May 18. We will build on scientific elements of the championship, which are not available today. I can make a realistic prediction. There is no opposition from me, but the willingness to evaluate the restart only if the health of people within the team group is safeguarded. Then I claim the same dignity with other sports and grassroots sports. May will start again with the training of the team and to do this we need a definitive clarification on the protocol: in the week we will have it, it is up to the government to decide if the conditions exist and to resume. So how to do it, I mean by what formula and schedule Figc will set it. I will do everything to start again. In late May it will be possible to say whether or not Series A will resume. It takes a little patience. Otherwise, as I said provocatively, the alternative is to do like France and close by, but I don’t want this. “
09:44 – “Phase 2, a great desire for football,” the newspaper Il Messaggero headlines in its sports section. Since yesterday, players have set foot in sports centers for strictly individual motor sessions, given the team training ban that is still in place to combat the pandemic. Ban that should expire from May 18 if Phase 2 goes well, while, for the return of the championship, “for now it is not spoken”, continues to warn Minister Spadafora. “Perhaps there is no zero risk, but maximum security conditions should be sought. It is an industry that invoices 14 billion euros with related industries. It deserves respect for the numbers and content it generates. Football cannot be treated in this way, there are millions of Italians who follow him with passion “, declares the CEO of Bologna, Claudio Fenucci.
09:01 – Ibrahimovic is ready to return to Italy. As La Gazzetta dello Sport reports, if it only depended on him, he would still stay a bit in Sweden, but it seems that the will has been given to return to Milan. Once returned, Zlatan, in addition to undergoing the medical controls provided by the protocol, must observe the fourteen days of compulsory home isolation for those arriving from abroad.
08:46 – Frontiers guest, Rai 1 program, the Minister of Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, spoke about the possible reopening of the championship: “I really hope that it is so and it would be surreal if it were not so, to be the Minister of Sport”. These days have also been pressured by too much pressure for an immediate election. It will also depend on these two weeks, on the impact of the reopening. Shooting behind closed doors? It’s out of the question, yes. “
8:31 – “Spadafora, the sports minister who hates sports (especially soccer)”. This is the title on the cover of the newspaper Il Giornale in the newsstands this morning in reference to the statements made these days by the Minister of Sports. Spadafora, therefore, is seen as a Series A enemy from whom to expect everything.
08:14 – “The race”. This is the title that opens today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport in reference to the resumption of training: “The teams that are already on the field, read on the cover, Series A reappears. After 56 days of stoppage, the movement is restarting From politics, a bipartisan choir, yes, the Prime Minister in Spadafora: we have to speak. Waiting for the new protocol: it will be decisive. “
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18.59 – Starting tomorrow, Milan will start the medical screen in groups. Milanello is still closed and nobody will go to the sports center. Once the health analysis phase of the players ends, always following the dictates of the protocol, the Stefano Pioli staff will proceed with the start of the re-athletics phase that the players will carry out individually, in the different fields of Milanello and at different times based on the groups that will be formed. The objective of this work is to progress daily and then resume, if the government approves, the training of the team that could begin no earlier than May 18.
18.05 – Below is the national bulletin of the last twenty-four hours on the emergence of the coronavirus in Italy:
Currently positive: 99,980 (-199)
Died: 29,079 (+195, + 0.7%)
Cured: 82,879 (+1,225, + 1.5%)
Intensive care patients: 1,479 (-22, -1.5%)
Buffers: 2,191,403 (+37,631)
Total cases: 211,938 (+1,221, + 0.6%)
18.02 – The next Federal Council meeting will take place on Friday, May 8. The work will begin at 12.00 and will be carried out in a conference call. On the agenda, in addition to the approval of the minutes of the meetings of February 24 and March 10, 2020 and the communications from the President, the following topics: information from the Secretary General; regulatory changes; competence appointments; Presidential decree of the Council of Ministers of April 26, 2020: consequent measures; UEFA circular no. April 24, 2020: consequential determinations; National licenses for the 2020/2021 sports season; professional membership conditions in the 2020/2021 sports season; ratification of urgent resolutions of the Federal President; Various and any.
17.45 – These are the data of the emergency of Coronavirus in Lombardy in the last twenty-four hours:
Tampons: +7,978
Total positives: +577
Intensive care: 0
Deaths: +63
Admissions (no T.I.): -195
Downloaded: +697
17.30 – The two finalist teams in the Spanish King’s Cup, Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao, have drawn up a joint press release requesting the football association to make the match the first Basque derby in history for the final act of the competition, be played open doors. with the audience “The desire and the will of both clubs, it is written in the joint note, was and continues to play and enjoy the final together with the fans. This is what we would like: a final that will be lived with our fans in the stands”. . The game was supposed to be played on April 18 at Seville’s ‘La Cartuja’ stadium, but was postponed until a later date due to the coronavirus. The president of the Spanish Football Federation (Rfef), Luis Rubiales, has said several times that “our goal is for there to be a Charterhouse full of people”, but the activity is still suspended and the clubs have not yet trained again, not even at the individual level. In any case, the two Basque clubs emphasize that the final must “be played as an official competition that assigns a title”. Athletic de Bilbao has won the national cup 23 times, including the first (1903), while Real Sociedad has won it twice. (ANSA-AFP).
17.00 – “Everyone’s hope would be to review the championship, which is difficult. This is a dramatic period, from several points of view. There is a desire on the part of the FIGC to see the championship completed, also due to the economic problems that would imply a” Any interruption. This, however, will be decided by the Government. It should also be said that a professional footballer cannot go four months without training. We should study a method to make him train safely, perhaps with different protocols than those that have been put on the table. “So Enrico Castellacci, medical historian of the national team and current president of the Free Association of soccer doctors Italians (Lamica), in Sport-Lab.it. (ANSA).
16.08 – A first series of tests revealed ten cases of coronavirus positivity in German first and second division clubs, which are expected to resume competition in May. This was announced by the German Football League (DFL). Of the 1,724 tests already carried out in the 36 clubs in question (18 in each division), ten gave a positive result, says the League, which does not reveal any details about the position of the cases and even less the identity of the people evaluated. According to the regulations in force in Germany, anyone who has been in contact with a positive case must respect an isolation period of 14 days. (ANSA-AFP).
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04/16 – Milanello will remain closed until the resumption of training, but starting tomorrow, AC Milan players and Rossoneri staff will begin the medical examination at some clinics in Milan, the first step to resume sports activity after the Coronavirus stoppage. AC Milan, the club’s sources explain, will carry out the tests required by the protocol created by the Scientific Medical Committee (blood tests, electrocardiograms and other routine tests), while using swabs only when government authorizations and the ATS are unambiguous local. It will take a few days to test all the staff so that if no abnormalities are recorded Milan can start training within the weekend. Ibrahimovic and Kessie have not yet returned to Milan from their countries, but are in contact with management to study what to do. (ANSA).
14:33 – “Explosion proof, to avoid quarantine”, words of the virologist Andreoni with whom the Corriere dello Sport titles in side court. The expert declares: “If an athlete is positive, he can plan a battery of swabs to which all the colors that have had contact must be submitted.” The serological tests will be preferred to the swabs and in the health protocol the swabs could be expected to be performed only in the event that antibodies are found in the molecular assays, so that it can be verified if the virus is still active.
14:22 – For the first time in the world, a candidate vaccine against COVID-19 has neutralized the virus in human cells. Luigi Aurisicchio, CEO of Takis de Pomezia who developed the vaccine, told the ANSA news agency, explaining that the test carried out in Spallanzani was possible thanks to the institute’s experience that, after having isolated the virus, it has developed a method to verify the efficacy of vaccines and molecules directly on the virus. Antibodies generated in mice that neutralized the virus in human cells work, now human testing is still awaited after the summer. It is the most advanced level achieved so far in the experimentation of a candidate vaccine born in Italy.
14:10 – Exceeded 3.5 million cases worldwide. This is what emerges from the John Hopkins University data collector, which updates the data related to the Covid-19 pandemic in real time. About a third of cases in the United States alone, which have recorded 1,450 new deaths of people with coronavirus in the past 24 hours. More than 67,000 people have died in the United States since the outbreak. In Europe, the country with the highest number of deaths so far is Italy, followed by Great Britain, Spain and France.
13:17 – In its edition today, Il Messaggero dedicates a space on page 24 to Series A with the following title: “Television rights, without agreement we are going to the legal battle”. The clubs will not receive the payment of the last bi-monthly fee for 2019/2020 at these times. Sky, DAZN and Img have to pay the fee from May to June for a sum of approximately 230 million euros. The companies, at the cost of paying VAT anyway, will issue the invoice. Softer lines for Juventus, Inter and Roma, while Lazio and Napoli are among the most aggressive.
12:59 – The news from UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin spoke to rookies about the possibility of resuming the season: “We will defeat Covid, but while we wait, football can give positive energy. The virus has made us understand the vulnerability of our world, until soccer returns, people will not have the perception of a return to normality Will soccer change? Yes, but it will be a temporary change, it survived epidemics and wars, you will see that it will become a sport again that we know. the authorities begin, the players will return to the field as soon as possible, obviously after having done all the tests and without the public. “
12:16 – “Shock in the government”. This is the title that Il Mattino in the interior, on page 17, dedicates today to the situation that soccer is experiencing. From Viminale he is fine until training, but Spadafora stops and reiterates: “For now there is no talk of resuming the championship.”
12:14 – Series A has three calendars for the restart. To the two already counted in the last days (from June 13 to 20), says Corriere dello Sport, a third is added. A “super pessimistic” hypothesis, predicting a reboot even on June 27, with games to be played every 72 hours, every day of the week: an even more exhausting tour de force, only to complete the firm season from the start of March. In this scenario, in addition, the Italian Cup would be sacrificed to allow the European cups from August 2.
12:10 – The Ministry of Health of Spain has published the balance of the last 24 of the coronavirus: deaths have been 164 (the total since the start of the pandemic is 25,428 deaths), while the newly infected are 356 (for a total of 218.011).
11:56 – Through the website of the Sports Office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the government has issued guidelines on how to carry out training for individual sports, which can be consulted in their entirety at this link. The guidelines, the press release reads, are a document that provides useful information to enable the gradual recovery of sports activities, in compliance with priority health protection needs and through the implementation of the provisions of the decree of the Prime Minister of the April 26. 2020 that authorizes training sessions for athletes of individual, professional and non-professional sports disciplines, recognized by CONI, CIP and their respective Federations of national interest, in view of their participation in the Olympic Games or national and international events. Currently, training is possible in accordance with the rules of social distancing and without any meeting, behind closed doors, for athletes of individual sports disciplines, subject to adaptation to these guidelines. Among the central themes, the distance between athletes (at least 1 meter between sports operators, but can increase up to 10 meters in case of running at 14 km / h), staggered entrances, indications on hygiene practices. And, above all, the division of athletes into two groups: Covid + and Covid-, depending on whether they tested positive for Coronavirus (or in any case show symptoms attributable to it) or not. All will undergo a clinical examination and a viral RNA test (buffer or other validated), before recovery and, in any case, on day zero. Depending on the case, the route of the examination will be divergent: for Covid + athletes it will be necessary to undergo a Holter ECG and pulmonary radiology to obtain the elimination of infectious diseases in recovery.
11:45 – The councilor for health and well-being for the Lombardy region, Giulio Gallera, spoke of phase 2 in relation to Mattino 5: “These are delicate days, today and even more so in mid-May, 18, when many will reopen activities. The results of the growth of infections will be visible ten days later, so we are vigilant. First aid, hospitalized patients and intensive care will be our alarm bells. Local public transport, added the councilman, is one of the big knots. There may have to be butlers to get people on board like in the supermarket. “
11:30 – The recovery protocol remains a great question mark for understanding the possibility of the Serie A championship completing the season. In addition to the central node linked to the possibility of a new contagion among the players, as reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, the possibility of playing in the south center is topical: a complicated scenario because most of the clubs in question are located in the North . In any case, in the next few hours, there will be a new meeting between the Scientific Technical Committee and the FIGC to take stock of the situation.
11:28 – Asmir Begovic, interviewed by the Times, issued these statements on the resumption of the championship: “We trust the leaders of the club and the government. We will do our job when they tell us to. We would like to try to finish the season if it is possible to do it in a safe and healthy environment. It’s just a waiting game. “
11:15 – “The championship makes an appeal. Everyone on the field, Spadafora stops”: this is the title of Repubblica this morning on the government’s decision to give individual training to the Serie A teams the approval. To resume the championship, the sports minister continues to decline: “For now, we are not talking about it.” Wednesday will be very important, perhaps decisive, because if the Bundesliga started again, Serie A would have a good opportunity to start again.
11:00 – According to the edition of the Corriere della Sera in the kiosks this morning, the resumption of training should not make us think of a certain restart of the Serie A championship: the green light for the individual sessions is, in fact, only the first step, but others will have to follow before resuming play in mid-June.
10:43 – The Newsstand in press this morning will dedicate a space to Series A on page 26 with the following title: “Everyone on the field”. First the acceleration of the government, then the new braking. Today in the top Italian championship the individual training centers were reopened. Gelo Spadafora: “But you don’t really talk about the championship.”
10:13 – “Spadafora makes the wall after the approval”. This is the QS opening title at newsstands this morning about the restart of soccer in Italy. As of today, we read, individual training is allowed, but the Minister of Sports does not withdraw his position: “Shoot Serie A? For now we are not talking about that.” Inter on the field since tomorrow, Juventus has rated the top ten still abroad.
10:12 – Skirmishes continue, including policies, on the resumption of training (from today the green light to the individual ones) and, above all, the soccer championship. With Minister Spadafora the protagonist of a heated social dispute last night, and on Wednesday, which should be the decisive one, it may be time for Giuseppe Conte. As reported by La Gazzetta, in fact, the Prime Minister would like to personally intervene to deal with the world of football, in an attempt to synthesize the two approaches to politics in this regard. In fact, there seem to be two opposing orientations on the issue within the government. Spadafora would like to speed things up and, without an agreement between FIGC and the technical-scientific committee on protocol, he believes it is appropriate to stop the championship for good. However, it is unclear whether the entire 5-star movement is of this opinion. In the PD, but also in parties like Italia Viva or between technical representatives of the executive, vice versa, a waiting line prevails: go step by step, find harmony with the rest of Europe and try to start again, if you can, without forcing times.
09:44 – “OK to sports centers”. This is the title that Il Messaggero dedicates in the high cut of the first page of this morning to Series A. A circular from the Ministry of the Interior, which we read on page 24, has revealed the situation: accessible sports centers for individual motor sessions . Spadafora, however, remains of his opinion: “We are not talking about the championship for now.”
09:14 – The government has given the green light to individual training and Milan is also preparing to resume, even if the swabs must be carried out first. At the Rossoneri house, there is still no sure date for the return to Italy of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Franck Kessie, that is, the only foreign players from the club on Via Aldo Rossi who have not yet returned to Milan. Corriere della Sera reports it today.
08:59 – The Corriere dello Sport today in the kiosks opens with the title: “Attack on football”. The Interior Ministry is open to individual training, but Spadafora wants to end soccer. The Sports Minister is overwhelmed and asks Premier Conte for a decree to close the championship: “Nothing has changed, the collective preparation starts again from May 18. And there is no question of resuming the game.” But in the meantime, another positive sign comes from the technical-scientific committee.
08:45 – Regarding the resumption of training for the Serie A teams, today’s edition of the Corriere della Sera headlines this morning: “Keep your distance”. The government has given the green light to individual training in sports centers, but by restarting the championship, Minister Spadafora continues to hold back: “For now, the championship is not in dispute.”
08:30 – The Gazzetta dello Sport today in the kiosks opens the photo of the main protagonists of Serie A and the title: “Rieccoli!”. Italy reopens phase 2, including soccer. The government releases Serie A by giving the go-ahead to the individual training and soon afterwards the irritation of the Minister Spadafora arrives: “Championship? For now, it is not spoken. Team sessions not before 18”. But in the majority there are those who are ready to start again, paying attention to Spain, Germany and England.
