Sports Café

Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona wears a protective mask and gloves during training on May 6, 2020. © Miguel Ruiz / FC Barcelona / Handout via REUTERS

By: Annie Gasnier Follow

The Confined Sports Café is part of the theme of the day on RFI. What will the world be like after Covid-19? The planet lives at the rate of the virus and hopes for its weakening, its disappearance. Globalization considered partly responsible for the situation, football, a sector stricken by the health crisis. How to imagine the future? Can we question the excesses of foot-business? A break as a chance to improve it, reform it, rethink it? An ideal football planet possible or utopian?

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The health of the players at the heart of the debates
Should we focus on training rather than purchasing, reducing mercatos, applying new rules, reviewing the format of competitions?

On the field side
We are off to the “Buli”! The head of the German League distributed the program and gave the green light. Derby Dortmund / Schalke 04 as a prelude to a 26th day behind closed doors on May 16, framed by a strict protocol.

Will La Liga follow suit in the Bundesliga?
Spain is preparing for its return, Real and Barça are advancing masked and undergoing screening tests. Pulse of Iberian football, while players are reluctant to resume.

► Also listen:  [Your reactions] Foot: should we finish the 2019-2020 season?

French side
France having closed the game, can the dynamics observed elsewhere encourage it to reconsider its position? Was it necessary to end the season unexpectedly? Will weakened hexagonal football recover?

Football on a drip since the League has validated a loan guaranteed by the State to compensate for TV rights. The Germans are trying to save part of it, while the French interruption risks causing loss of competitiveness, fall in player values. A delay on the "big 4" who will widen?

OM under the Saudi flag. Serious buyout track?

Cardboard sequence to finish.

Rémy Ngono, the "Jefe" and Xavier Barret will be at a good distance from Annie Gasnier, François David will interfere in the conversation.

Sound and video production: Laurent Salerno / Souheil Khedir
Preparation: David Fintzel / Pierre Guérin

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