Does the future of professional sport depend on closed leagues?
Giannis Antetokounmpo, estrella de los Milwaukee Bucks, durante a juego ante los Miami Heat in los pasados playoffs of the NBA.
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By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
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The NBA, the North American professional basketball championship resumes tonight.
The NHL, the North American ice hockey league resumes in mid-January.
The NFL, the championship of American football, continues as if nothing had happened and despite the pandemic on a seemingly immutable schedule.
Common to these championships which sometimes seem exotic to us Europeans, they are closed leagues, without climbs or descents.
For years, the idea has gained ground among the presidents of the biggest European football clubs or among some leaders of other sports such as rugby.
Does the future of professional sport depend on closed leagues?
This is the question of the day.
Publicity
To discuss it:
Nicolas Kssis Martov,
journalist for the magazine So foot and author of the book "Playgrounds, fields of struggles", Éditions de l'Atelier
Thomas Pitrel
, journalist co-editor at Society magazine, journalist at Sofoot and So press
Pierre Rondeau
, sports economist, co-director of the Observatoire du Sport et Société de la Fondation Jean Jaurès.
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