If the footballers are reduced to confinement, the decision-makers do not stop exchanging, meeting and imagining the next steps. Especially about the biggest and most lucrative club competition: the Champions League. The last protrusion of UEFA representatives - eager to put pressure on the various championships so that the seasons resume and end once the deconfinement is validated - attests to a fierce desire to also conclude the exercise of C1. Business is business. No matter the cost. If health decisions allow it too. To achieve this, all the hypotheses are put at the center of the debates. And one attracts attention, the establishment of a Final Four to designate the winner.
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The idea, copied from certain sports such as basketball in the Euroleague, would be to bring the four semi-finalists together in one place for the semi-finals and the final, over a reduced period of time. President of the Spanish federation and present around the discussion table, Luis Rubiales has said more about this possible possibility. “Nothing is excluded, whether in camera or not. What we need to do is find a healthy solution. Everyone wants the tournament to end, but only if we can guarantee that we will be completely protected. The Final Four is part of the options because the more we continue like this, the fewer dates will be available. You have to have imagination. ” Scheduled next May 30 in Istanbul, the final of the Champions League is logically postponed for the moment, without any new date having been set. “We are all looking for solutions and when the time is right, the executive committee will vote with the leagues. Everything will be voted, ”attests the Spanish leader.
For the moment, an outright cancellation of the competition seems unthinkable after the various signals sent by the thinking heads of UEFA. Remains an unknown, known to all, no one today is able to set a resumption date for the different championships, most of them suspended until further notice. "We are convinced that football will be able to restart in the coming months, respecting conditions which will be dictated by the public authorities, and believe that any decision to abandon national competitions is, at this stage, premature and not justified", wrote in particular the president of the European authority Aleksander Ceferin in an offensive letter and with a clear message. The negotiations are just beginning.
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