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From early Monday, Spanish football lived pending the evolution of political meetings in the autonomous communities and the Ministry of Health. After the normal day of the weekend, both LaLiga and the clubs were waiting with tension for new orders from the authorities, as a result of the explosion of cases of contagion. The Italian break was also looked sideways after the decision of the Trans-Alpine Olympic Committee to stop the entire sport until April 3.

At the moment, yesterday it was only known that Sevilla-Roma of the Europa League will be played on Thursday at the Pizjuán behind closed doors. "Today we will communicate new measures," said the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa , last night when asked about the matches that appear on the calendar. In the capital, without going any further, where classes have been suspended, on Friday there is football at the Santiago Bernabéu. Real Madrid receives Eibar at 9:00 p.m., without the white club having news of some type of restrictions on the capacity at the close of this edition.

From the LaLiga dramatism was subtracted from the fact of having to play the next meetings without an audience. The economic balance of the clubs has not been dependent on ticket sales for a long time. It would be a task for the subscribers and fans, expelled from the stands, but the economies of their teams would not suffer, according to the employers. Television rights and marketing support most budgets. Therefore, as long as the games could be played and retransmitted, the economic impact would not be too serious, they say.

"Of course, if the season stops, then we will have serious problems," they warn from La Liga, where concern was increasing as Black Monday progressed. A suspension of the championship would be a catastrophe, due to the lack of dates in the calendar to resume it and for the claims that could begin to arrive from national and, above all, international television operators, after paying all of them millions of euros for the broadcast of Spanish LaLiga matches.

Infections in the locker room

Another issue that frightens clubs is the possibility that one of its players or members of the coaching staff will be infected. In theory, immediately, the rest of the team should be quarantined, as is happening in any work environment with cases of coronavirus. That is, those affected clubs could not play games during their isolation. More cancellations and more chaos.

From the body chaired by Javier Tebas, they remember other data that reflect the importance of football in our economy. The ball business contributes 1.37% of the country's gross domestic product, pays 4,100 million euros a year in taxes and mobilizes 185,000 jobs.

Barça-Naples, without public

In France, for example, yesterday the decision was made to leave the stands empty from now on. There will be no public in the league championship or in European competitions that have to be held in their territory. This measure fully affects the PSG , the rich Parisian club that will see tomorrow against Borussia forced to try to overcome 2-1 of the first leg without the support of his fans. In addition to the future of LaLiga, Spanish teams do not know what will happen to their European commitments in the coming days. Getafe should play in Milan on Thursday and Barça fears that today the Generalitat will order him to play his Champions League clash against Naples, next week, behind closed doors.

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