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  • Phase 2, the Football Federation sends the protocol of the matches to Spadafora
  • Football, Figc: Championships A, B and C to end on August 20

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May 28, 2020The Serie A football goes towards the restart. Football and government united to give the green light to the football championship after weeks of individual training and a few days of collective sessions. After less than an hour of summit between government and football leaders, the minister of sport, Vincenzo Spadafora went to the Premier Count to define the date of the new start of the championship: 13 or 20 June. The meeting, which began at 18.30, saw Vincenzo Spadafora, Figc, Leagues, Footballers, Coaches and Referees as protagonists. In the morning the definitive OK of the Scientific Technical Committee had arrived at the new health protocol on the resumption of competitive activity substantially identical to that on collective training. No particular problems would have arisen also because the famous rule on the "automatic" quarantine of the team in case of positivity remained unchanged. The CTS expressed its "appreciation for the punctuality of detail in the analysis of many aspects", reiterating, however, that "the rules currently in force provide clear provisions" about "the quarantine of a positive subject" and consequently the precautionary one of everything. the rest of the team team. Optimism even after the negative to the buffer of the Bologna staff member resulted yesterday with one 
suspected positivity. Time to define the time and television node.

Two dates for the opening
The right date could be June 20 even if the League presses to anticipate the four league recoveries to 13: Atalanta-Sassuolo, Hellas Verona-Cagliari, Inter-Sampdoria and Turin Parma and then with all 20 A teams in the same conditions, that is, with the same number of matches played. As for the times if before 17 for players can not play, the proposal of the first time slot at 17.15 arrives. The other two bands also move forward: start scheduled for 19.30 and 21.45. Solutions on which the players' union will reopen the discussion.

Another solution, equally likely, is to start again with the semi-finals of the Italian Cup: Napoli-Inter and Juve-Milan, games that would involve a large part of spectators since these are events in the clear, a circumstance that would not mind the minister Spadafora.

Strong economic losses
Federal President Gabriele Gravina also spoke of the return to the pitch: "Only the immediate return to the pitch will allow Italian football to cushion the collapse in revenues in the short term, which can otherwise be estimated at over 700 million, more than 500 generated by the blockade imposed by Covid-19. 100 thousand workers, one and a half million members and 4.7 billion in turnover must be defended ".

Battle with the televisions
If Dazn and Img have envisaged deferred payments over time (League and society will evaluate), the fiercest current prevailed in Sky: after years of collaboration with the Serie A, in a few months there was a fierce clash.

The European framework European
football is slowly starting up again. After the Bundesliga which has already started again on May 15, there are many European countries in which we are preparing to restart. The championships soon at the start are the Portuguese one that will resume its matches on June 4th when the leaders Porto take the field against the small Famalicao, the Spanish Liga where the government of Pedro Sanchez gave the green light for the restart in the week of 8 June and now the most popular date for the restart seems to be Friday 12 June with the Seville derby between the red and white and Betis, and the Premier League where today the decision of the English clubs to resume the maximum championship on June 17 arrived. It will start with Aston Villa against Sheffield United and Manchester City against Arsenal, the recoveries of the 28th day, while the 29th should go on stage in the following weekend, in order to allow the conclusion of the championship by 2 August as requested by UEFA. At the top of the standings is Klopp's Liverpool that is waiting to celebrate a title chased for twenty years.

Who resumes in May
Several games have already taken place in Estonia and the Faroe Islands. The championship in the Czech Republic resumed on 23 May with the match between Teplice and Liberec while yesterday, 27 May, Slavia Prague and Viktoria Pilzen returned to the field and are competing for the title. Also in Hungary on May 23rd the championship resumed with the victory of leaders Ferencvaros over Debrecen 2-1. In Denmark we start again today, May 28, while in Poland we start again tomorrow. The next day will be the turn of Serbia where the eternal challenge between Stella Rossa and Partizan stands out.

Who resumes in June
2 reopens the Austrian championship with Salzburg in search of a comeback against the surprising Lask. In addition to the aforementioned Portugal, between 3 and 6 June, the team returns to play in Slovenia, Montenegro, Croatia and Greece. The starting whistle of the matches in Turkey is scheduled for June 12th where Trabzonspor, Basaksehir, Galatasaray and Sivasspor are all enclosed in 4 points. UEFA's eyes will be on Istanbul where the Champions League final should be played if confirmed. In the middle of the month we start again in England and also in Norway, Switzerland and Russia. Finland could be the last to hypothesize their return to the field on July 1st.

Who canceled the season
France has stopped all football hostilities by decreeing the PSG champion. Ligue 1 is today the only one of the five major European national tournaments to have made such a drastic decision. The championship has also been canceled in Holland, where the Scudetto has not been awarded and where Utrecht has already announced battle in all the venues because it is excluded from the European cups, Belgium, Cyprus, Wales (where the first historic local Scudetto has been awarded to Connah's Quay Nomads), Gibraltar and Scotland, where Celtic Glasgow was crowned.

Spadafora: "Voucher to refund sporting event tickets"
"We have paused the sport, but we want to protect the spectators. For this reason, we have provided a refund mechanism for events that have not been able to attend (or will not be attended to) because of Coronavirus. Ticket holders who request it will therefore be entitled to the recovery voucher, for any sporting event ". Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora writes on Facebook.