At 13 o'clock on Tuesday, the European Football Association Uefa will hold a crisis meeting - for obvious reasons a video conference - with representatives of clubs, players and national associations, among others. Like many parts of society, the world of sports has been crippled by the spread of the corona virus, and football is no exception.

This summer's European Championships will be a main issue at the meeting, as well as how and if the major ongoing European leagues can be completed.

Norway: Push it

The Italian Football Association already said this weekend that it wants to postpone the European Championships instead of giving priority to playing clearly its domestic series. On Monday, Norway joined the line. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (NFF) does not believe that the Uefa meeting should be seen as a draft law, but that a decision has probably already been made.

- Our position is that the European Championship must be pushed forward, as the situation is now with Norway as our closest reference point. And this meeting is probably not intended as a reconciliation, says NFF's secretary general Pål Bjerketvedt to NTB.

- We think it's leaning towards postponing an entire year.

The European top leagues are unlikely to be decided in time for the European Championships, which are scheduled to start in Rome on June 12. The International Football Federation (Fifa) has also recommended that all national games in March and April be stopped, which would mean that the qualifiers for the last four European Championships cannot be played until early May.

Brand new situation

Many rumors circulate before the meeting. British The Telegraph writes that the European Championships can be postponed to December this year, while the French L'Équipe states that it is instead leaning for the European Championships to be moved to the summer of 2021, even if it would then collide with the women's European Championship tournament.

What Sweden prefers? We will know that after Tuesday's meeting.

- We do not want to go into any speculation in any way now. We want the attitude that we await the meeting tomorrow. Our hope is that it will straighten out some question marks, says the Football Association general secretary Håkan Sjöstrand to TT.

In addition, he says, one should be humble about how quickly things change.

- It's difficult to look at the situation. What applied yesterday can change to today and what applied this morning can be changed to evening. We must try to relate to this in the most responsible and constructive way possible, says Sjöstrand.

- When we see the impact that this has on society as a whole ... no one has participated in anything like it.