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The president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravina , has assured that in case Series A is interrupted again due to the coronavirus pandemic and there is "impossibility" of finishing the championship, the teams will play a playoff for the title and a few playouts for the relegation to guarantee that everything is resolved by "sporting merits".

"Our plan B is structural, it is very clear and it is contained in a resolution of the Federal Council, which establishes that in case of temporary suspension and impossibility of completing the championship, the playoffs and playouts will be used to guarantee that there is a result linked to sports merit "he declared in an interview to Sky Sport this Saturday.

In addition, he explained that if they cannot play anymore they will resort to an "algorithm" that they will approve before the championship begins and that will take into account "several factors", always linked "to the results" and "objective elements of the classification of each equipment".

In Italy, a positive from any player would force a 14-day quarantine of the entire team . The Italian government approved on Thursday the return of Serie A, which has 12 games to go, after tough negotiations with the organization and the FIGC. It would reopen on June 19 . In England it will be 17 and in Spain it will be 11.

Gravina assured that Italian football comes out "in a strengthened and harmonious way" from the meeting with Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora. "Unlike others, where there was also tension, there was great serenity. Football comes out with great force and with the possibility of giving messages of hope to our country, knowing that risks are always present," he said. "The concern not to return was strong, especially in a world where we live off of sponsors."

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