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La Liga president Javier Tebas has proposed three potential dates for Spain’s top flight to return despite the country still being under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Of all the different scenarios we have been looking at with UEFA to go back to competing, the most probable ones are May 28, June 6, or June 28,” Tebas said, according to BBC Sport’s Simon Stone.
Tebas appreciates that the future of La Liga’s 2019-20 campaign lies in the hands of Spanish health authorities and that training cannot restart until emergency measures are lifted. Spain will remain under strict confinement rules until April 26 at the earliest, but there have been encouraging reductions in deaths, hospital admissions, and critical care cases in recent days.
However, Spain has recorded the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, with nearly 14,000 fatalities.
Tebas is “not considering” scrapping the soccer season despite the fear that grips the Iberian nation and claims no “big or medium” league across Europe is considering annulments of their respective 2019-20 campaigns. He said …read more