While the meeting between Parma and Spal was to take place behind closed doors at 12:30 p.m., the two teams finally returned to the locker room a few minutes before kick-off. The Italian Minister for Sports, Vincenzo Spadafora, for his part called for the suspension of Serie A. "While we ask the citizens to make enormous sacrifices to prevent the spread of the contagion, it does not make sense to put in the health of the players, the referees, the members of the supporters, who will surely come together to watch the matches, is endangered, "said Spadafora on Facebook.
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