Coronavirus threatens the Camp Nou: Games behind closed doors until February 2021?

The world of the football treats to go on, but has seen duramente struck by the crisis of the coronavirus. The sportive authorities centre , for the moment, in restarting the competitions to minimise the economic impact that is having the stop, but assume that it will be necessary to do changes so that the recovery was complete, with guarantees and without risks, in some coming seasons that they will be very moved.

'The Avant-garde' has published a report of the FC Barcelona that analyses the current situation, of face to elaborate a plan of performance for a marked future by the uncertainty. This document was commissioned by the cúpula of the club and elaborated by some of his executives, that reviewed studies of financial entities and projections of consultings of the sportive sector to detect threats and opportunities to economic level.

Several means have stood out one of the questions that reflects in the text, where develop two possible stages for the reopening of the Camp Nou. It is necessary to remember that until the Governments do not activate a desconfinamiento progressive and give green light to the rest of activities, the organisms rectors futbolísticos are tied hand and foot, because his intention is to observe orders and put the health above all else.

The first case would be the most realistic alternative, that would serve like base to think in the taken action. This supposition contemplates that the tournaments will not postpone more and will finalise without going back to play. On 15 August it would open the market of signings, and would close on 15 September, when it would start LaLiga 2020-21. Although the championship would return after the end of the pandemia and already with a greater definition of the new organisation and the requirements imposed by the sanitary professionals, the parties to enclosed door would arrive until February of 2021.

The optimistic stage, a closing until November

The most optimistic stage is the one who still sustain the sportive authorities, that will try to complete the current course. FIFA, UEFA and his associated are in direct contact with the governmental authorities, and outline a strategy so that, in the first place, the leagues come to an end on the terrain of game, and no in the dispatches, and so that, in the measure of the possible, also do it the international competitions.

In this case, it would finish LaLiga, that could restart around 15 June and finish between the 1 and on 15 August. So much the market like the dates of start of the new campaign would keep as in the previous, but the most evident modification is the one of the meetings with public. The doors of the Camp Nou could open in the second week of November, something recommended by the experts that warn that before autumn, a reopening would be imprudent.