Italy gives the green light to the audience at the stadiums

Italian Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora announced today, Friday, that a thousand people will be able to attend all outdoor sports competitions in Italy starting next Sunday, on the eve of the start of the local football league.

Spadafora said in a written message: "As of the semi-final and final rounds" of the Rome International Tennis Tournament, one of the 1,000-point Masters tournaments scheduled for Sunday and Monday, "A thousand spectators will be able to attend all sports competitions that will be held in the open air that will strictly respect the rules. Health. "

The minister explained that in order to be able to partially open the doors to the masses, the organizers of sporting events must respect "the rules established for spacing, masks and seat reservation."

He added that this decision will be formalized "in the next few hours," saying that it is "a first step, but it is an important step towards returning life to normal in sports, which is what we hope soon."

The organizers of the Rome tournament, which is witnessing the return of the Spaniard Rafael Nadal to the competition after more than six months without official matches, have denounced a "great unfairness" for holding it behind closed doors, at a time when the French Open, one of the Grand Slam tournaments, will be held at the stadiums of Roland Garros, which starts After less than ten days, with a crowd of 5,000 fans per day.

In football, clubs that suffered an economic crisis due to the stoppage of competitions last spring and the absence of the public due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, demanded to reopen the stadiums gradually to the masses.

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