Professional baseball and J-League countermeasure liaison meeting established. Cooperation in response to spread of infection. March 2 18:15
Professional baseball and soccer J-League have set up a “meeting liaison meeting” to cope with the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and will discuss future official games while sharing opinions and information from experts. I decided to do it.
This was announced at a press conference jointly by professional baseball commissioner Jun Saito and J-League chairman Mitsuru Murai.
At the "Measures Liaison Conference", Commissioner Saito and representatives of 12 teams from professional baseball will attend, and Chairman Murai and directors will attend from the J-League. It means getting advice on how to operate the stadium and how to prevent infection of spectators, players and staff.
Is scheduled to open for the first time of the conference is three days, to the expert three people is that get put together a written opinion on the prospect the middle of this month.
However, professional baseball and the J-League make their own decisions, such as holding an official game.
Professional baseball has decided to hold an open match until the 15th of this month with no spectators, but the focus is on whether the regular season, which starts on this 20th, can be held as scheduled.
Commissioner Saito said, "We have decided to work unusually in order to overcome the difficult situation. Sports fans want the game to resume. It is our responsibility to ensure that everyone is satisfied. Because the government says, "I don't want to do it," we want to decide on its own. "
The J-League has also decided to postpone the official game until the 15th of this month, and will have to decide whether to resume from the 18th of this month.
"Cooperation with professional baseball is groundbreaking. There are many other sports besides baseball and soccer, so we will open the information exchanged on the same day. Baseball is a tournament format, the number of game days, history And the cultures are different, so we will decide on the restart and management of the game independently. "