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La Liga president Javier Tebas hopes the season can resume on June 12 with matches set to take place “every day” behind closed doors and at “practically zero” risk to players.
Testing started last week ahead of the resumption of individual training sessions, and on Sunday, La Liga announced there were five new positive cases of COVID-19 for players across the top two divisions of Spanish football.
“The risk during games will be zero, or practically zero, because the players will be tested – with only a 5% possible failure rate – 24 hours before,” Tebas told Movistar, as translated by BBC Sport.
Tebas said he anticipated “between 25-30 positive cases” from the last checks so a return of only five positive tests is “good news for the football industry.”
Players who test positive are forced to self-isolate and will only be permitted to join their teammates for first-team duties when they test negative twice in a 72-hour span.
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona were among those who resumed individual …read more