The path is "increasingly narrow" for a resumption of the Italian football championship, warned Wednesday the Minister of Sports Vincenzo Spadafora, who suggested to the leaders of Calcio to think in priority of the next season. “I see an increasingly narrow path for the resumption of the championship. If I were a president of a football club, I would think above all of organizing myself to safely resume the next championship which will start at the end of August, "declared Vincenzo Spadafora during an interview on the television channel La 7 .
"The decisions that other countries are taking, like France yesterday, could push Italy to follow this line too, which would then become a European line," he added. On Tuesday, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced that "the 2019-2020 professional sports season cannot (could) resume". The French football championship should therefore be stopped.
"The majority of clubs could ask us to suspend this season and prepare for the next championship as best as possible"
"I think the next meeting of the Lega Serie A (the Italian Premier League, note) could hold a surprise," also suggested Spadafora. "The majority of clubs could ask us to suspend this season and prepare for the next championship as best as possible," he said.
The Italian League convened an emergency general meeting for Friday morning where the question of the possible continuation of the season should be raised. The Italian championship was interrupted on March 9 in the face of the progression of the epidemic of coronavirus , which has now left more than 27,000 people dead in the country. The government did not allow resumption of team sports training until May 18 "at best".
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