Los Angeles (AFP)
Donald Trump sharply contested the questioning of the American football season (NFL) in the fall because of the coronavirus, expressed by the immunologist Anthony Fauci, assuring Friday that the league would start it safely.
"Tony Fauci has nothing to do with American football. The NFL is planning a very safe and controlled start to the season," said the president.
Thursday, Dr. Fauci, infectious disease expert for the White House, warned that the NFL season would be hard to start as expected in September because of the pandemic, if not in a "bubble".
"Unless the players are grouped in a bubble, isolated from the population and tested almost every day, it is very difficult to imagine how we could play football this fall," he said. .
"If there is a second wave of the pandemic, which is obviously a possibility and which would be even more complicated because of the expected flu season, [the football season] may not take place this year", had -He insists.
The basketball (NBA) and football (MLS) leagues, which are preparing for their arrival in July at Disney World in Orlando, have made the choice to resume competition at a single site.
"We don't think it's practical or suitable," said NFL medical director Allen Sills.
If he pushes for the championship to take place, Donald Trump has reiterated that he did not want to see his knee on the ground before the matches.
"If (the players) don't stand up during our national anthem, in front of our big American flag, I won't watch !!!", he wrote.
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