Chairman Erez Kalfon and Shmuel Frenkel demand that the Minister of Sports and the Government allow the professional teams a training routine
Winner's Cup game.
If not for games, then at least training
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Oded Karni
A joint call by the chairmen of the administrations of the Premier Leagues in football and basketball requires allowing the professional teams from both industries to return to a training routine, even if the local leagues are disabled.
The reference was made in a letter to the Minister of Sports, Hili Trooper, and to the Government of Israel, as well as to the Ministers of Finance and Health, and demands that despite the situation in the country, the rising corona morbidity and other difficulties, they must consider sports.
"The significance of stopping the activities of professional football and basketball in a fateful country with implications for professional sports in Israel," the letter said at the beginning, "is that the clubs will be harmed by hundreds of millions of shekels," it was emphasized.
"Unlike other sectors of the economy, which will lift the shelter immediately after the quarantine, football and basketball take at least two weeks to return to fitness that will allow players to return to fitness and prevent damage to their health," the letter continued with a dramatic addition warning In Israel. "
"Therefore, we seek to allow professional athletes to return to training during the closure period. Speaking of significant importance in reducing the expected damage to sports ... This approval can be given gradually, for training in open pitches only, under strict restrictions, heat and stochastic testing and other professional guidelines," the letter concluded. Request for a quick reply