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THE NATIONAL TEAMS FOOTBALL, THE KEY?

How will the season be completed? The puzzle of the football calendar

Published:12/03/2020 - 14:40h

Updated:12/03/2020 - 14:48h

The coronavirus has broken into the world of sports, and one of the most affected is football. Today there are questions about how the season will be completed and the puzzle of the calendar must be solved

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In the last days treated to advance with the measures of necessary security, but the coronavirus already has stopped the world of the sport. One to one, the competitions announce suspensions and attend to the recommendations of the authorities, that have opened a bracket of two weeks waiting for novelties. The effectiveness of the measures and the development of the events will mark when it will return the normality.

The organisms that govern the world of the football have recalcado that the health is the first, but already look for solutions to a calendar that has remained entirely broken. In Spain, LaLiga detains by two weeks in the Day 27, still with 11 more for contesting and looking askance to the Champions and the Europe League, descompensadas by the parties to enclosed door and the cancelled that have left crosses to half close.

Javier Thebes already informed that the Commissions of the competent organisms studied how act in front of any possible stage, and recalcó that would try complete all the competitions repositioning the corresponding crashes in the dates that were free. This will depend, to a large extent, of how advance all, and especially of the decisions that take jointly with the international entities.

Precisely, the selections could have the key, if they are had to postpone his big tournaments until 2021. In this summer there is Eurocopa and Glass America, between others, and the trip would suppose the release of the month of June. In spite of that it also would be necessary to redistribute schedules by the heat that would affect to cities like sevilla, would be an interesting alternative because it would offer several weeks of margin to finalise without more obstacles the domestic championships.

In any case, these are only hypothesis that will analyse in depth in the next days, and satisfied go knowing if expect two weeks and two Days will be sufficient. Once surpassed this period of containment, it will be necessary reevaluar the situation, and then will choose the best answer to restart the activity without risks and with total guarantees for all the involved.

The definite suspension, the last option

Several sources affirm that, regarding the world of the sport, works with the aim to avoid the definite suspension of any competition. This would force to leave the classifications as they are and to value promotions, descents, championships and prizes in function of criteria less just, by what the priority is to recover in the measure of the possible all the events that have lost or postponed.