Only the immediate return to the field will allow Italian football "to cushion the collapse of revenues in the short term, otherwise estimated at over 700 million, more than 500 generated by the block imposed by Covid-19". The president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina said in an intervention on the web platform of the observatory "Riparte l'Italia", recalling the numbers of the employment sector in the world of football: "It is necessary to defend 100 thousand workers, one and a half million members and 4.7 billion in turnover. "
"The duty of the Football Federation is to do everything, always respecting the health of each protagonist, to restart the system, also to prevent the economic crisis from compromising, this time yes, irreparably, the Italians' passion for this splendid game", Gravina wrote, underlining the efforts of the FIGC, which "worked unceasingly together with the ministers for Sport Vincenzo Spadafora, the Economy Roberto Gualtieri and the Health Roberto Speranza, to create the safety conditions for the resumption of the professional championships".
The constant work, "often done on the track", Gravina stressed again, "has not yet ended", but the world of football "begins to benefit". "For us, starting again means going back to playing".