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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , has announced this Saturday that the soccer league will return "the week of June 8", giving the green light to Javier Tebas' plan to resume competition in First and Second the second week of June. The idea of ​​LaLiga is that the first game in the First is Betis-Sevilla, a priori on the 12th, and that earlier, on the 9th, the pending 45 minutes of the Second Rayo-Albacete are played, suspended in its day by the chants against Roman Zozulia .

"We are very happy with the decision, it is the result of the great work of clubs, players, coaches ... CSD and agents involved. But it is very important to follow the health regulations and that the evolution of the pandemic respects us, we cannot let our guard down "was the reaction of Thebes, through his Twitter account, minutes after Sánchez made the government's decision public.

The news is an accolade for professional football, which after months of uncertainty can work from now on with a clear horizon, although from LaLiga they emphasize that the restart date is not yet completely closed. Between the week of June 8 and the end of July the 11 days remaining in the First and Second will be played, as well as the qualifying rounds in the second category.

Since the de-escalation plan began on May 4, LaLiga's approach has always been to work to return to the competition the weekend of June 12 to 14, thus fulfilling the minimum time of one month of previous training, set by the protocol of the Higher Sports Council which was endorsed by the Ministry of Health.

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That LaLiga plan received an important boost a week ago when the Government agreed to relax the relief measures for the areas of Spain that continued in Phase 0, in which there were 12 First and Second teams. The approval to start training in groups of up to 10 players allowed LaLiga to maintain the schedule for returning to competition for that June 12 and not have to postpone it to the following weekend.

Thus, Spain will join other countries in which professional football is being resumed. In Germany the second day is celebrated this weekend after the pandemic, after having resumed the competition the previous Saturday. In Portugal, the return of the competition is scheduled for June 3, and in England it is valued for the same dates as Spain. Italy plans to retake its league, although not yet dated, while in France, Belgium and the Netherlands the season was permanently suspended by their respective governments.

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