La Liga clubs resume training up to 14 players in a group
Football | May 25, 2020 20:39 ISTFull squad training is now expected to resume next week onwards as the authorities are targetting mid-June as a possible return date to resume the league.
Full squad training is now expected to resume next week onwards as the authorities are targetting mid-June as a possible return date to resume the league.
Javier Tebas made the announcement a day after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the league would be allowed to resume from June 8 as long as the country continued to keep the coronavirus outbreak in check.
The La Liga is set to resume on June 8 after Spain PM Pedro Sanchez gave the green light for the resumption of football in the country.
Cities like Madrid and Barcelona have not been allowed to loosen confinement measures like most of the country, but teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona have been given the go-ahead to move into the second phase of training.
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Even as five players from La Liga and Spain's second division were tested positive for COVID-19, La Liga president Javier Tebas has said that there are no changes in the plan.
They are all without symptoms and will be allowed to start practicing after testing negative in further testing. They will need two negative results to be allowed to come back.
Publicly there is no return date set by the Spanish Federation yet but a LaLiga spokesperson had earlier said they were looking to resume matches in mid-June.
The testing is part of the league's protocol to restart in the middle of June. All remaining matches are to be played behind closed doors.
The football clubs in Spain are set to resume training this week, given they follow the norms concerning the health and safety of players.
Spanish league players are expected to get back on the field later in the week after they are tested for COVID-19 and after the clubs’ training facilities are properly prepared and disinfected.
The football matches in the country has been stopped since March 12 in wake of coronavirus pandemic that has hit the entire world.
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Contracts of as many as nine players were getting over at the end of the current campaign and the club, in a statement, has said they were successful in renegotiating the terms beyond the said date.
Spain has been without football since March 12, two days before the nation went into a strict lockdown under a state of emergency to battle its savage coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 22,000 lives.
La Liga president Javier Tebas has said that nulling and voiding the La Liga season is 'not an option on the table'.
The two organizations held an 8-hour meeting at the offices of the Spanish government's Superior Sports Committee on Monday and have agreed to return to training "when the sanitary conditions permit, and under strict health protocols."
The sports council brought together the league and the federation for a meeting this weekend and said both parties came to terms on several issues.
A number of La Liga's leading teams have applied pay cuts. Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla players have all accepted 70 per cent pay cuts per month while Real Madrid players will lose 10 per cent of their annual salary.
The Spanish league is not expecting to resume at least until the end of May. It is working on several scenarios, including playing without fans through the fall.
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