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Florentino Pérez, Andrea Agnelli and Josep Maria Bartomeu in an act of the ECA

FROM 2020 EUROCUP, TO 2021

ECA has clear its solution for the calendar: Postponing the Eurocup

Published:12/03/2020 - 15:42h

Updated:12/03/2020 - 15:42h

The coronavirus crisis is affecting the world of football, which is already looking for solutions so that its activity returns to normal. The ECA has already clear what it will propose to reorganize the calendar, and it will request that the Euro gets postponed

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The coronavirus has turned into a threat of world-wide scope, and the sanitary restrictions have detained the world of the sport. Little by little, all the specialitys announce the suspension to cancellation of one or several appointments, awaiting answers of the authorities to know when will return to the normality. While they are expecting, this yes, there is not time that lose in the entities organisers.

The football already has put hands to the work to resolve this peculiar crisis, and in concrete the affectations that supposes in the calendar. The domestic championships have stopped around the two weeks like measure of prevention and containment, and the international, like Champions and Europe League, have followed his example. After the stop touches to determine when and how will recover the parties and eliminatory affected.

The European Association of Clubs (ECA) had foreseen a meeting in Switzerland this Wednesday, that celebrated through videoconference. By obvious reasons, this meeting did not take place of face-to-face form, but kept equally by the importance of the subjects to argue. The majority of groups of the old continent attended to a debate that can be key so that the season complete without greater setbacks.

As 'Sportive World', this organism would have clear his solution so that the campaign can complete to level of clubs, and would opt for postponing the Eurocopa. The dates to contest the pending commitments are very scarce, and a temporary pause of the football of selections could concede the margin of necessary manoeuvre to fit again so much the leagues like the international tournaments of clubs.

Already they are varied the means that inform of the possibility to reposition this competition, an option that soon will evaluate the UEFA in another meeting that will take place next week. Of this form, 'would clean' of 12 June to 12 July, and in the first of these months there would be more space to lengthen the calendars mentioned. If the agreement was approved, the Euro could displace of the summer 2020 to the 2021.

The strategy will decide on the fly

Further of the look after the health of all, preserve in the measure of the possible the calendar is the priority to level futbolístico, but it will be necessary to elaborate plans on the fly. This is due to the fact that it faces a stage cambiante and full of uncertainty, that forces to be up to date and decide in function of how evolve everything. The sportive authorities already have announced the creation of several Commissions of Follow-up that will commission to value all the cases and choose the correct way for the collective profit.