In his deconfinement plan facing the health crisis of Covid-19, the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, announced Tuesday that "the 2019-2020 season will not be able to resume". An announcement that reacted the leaders of French clubs, like Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of OL, worried about the allocation of European places.
RMC Sport ensures that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, met the day before, Monday evening, with the coach of the Blues, Didier Deschamps, to inform him of this decision. The head of state would have probed the coach of the France team, as well as the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, concerning the resumption of football in France and wished to inform them personally before the Prime Minister's speech before the 'hemicycle.
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If the Netherlands and Belgium were the first to definitively stop their competitions in the face of the current epidemic, Emmanuel Macron would also like the decision taken by France to encourage the governments of other major European championships to follow him, while some leagues were about to resume.
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According to Le Parisien , Roxana Maracineanu, the Minister of Sports, would have for this purpose met with her counterparts for a harmonization between European countries in order to end the football season. In addition, the daily claims that the head of state himself called on hostile leaders to end the competitions for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.
While Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has to decide on the future of the Bundesliga, the Italian sports minister, Vincenzo Spadafora, has been clear. The future of the Serie A season is threatened: "The decisions that are being made by other countries, such as France could push Italy to also follow this line, which could become a European line", t he explained to local television.
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