[SPORT] Argentina will only have closed-door games in 2020: "Soccer with the public will take time"

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The return date of Argentine soccer is still an uncertainty, although it should take place in the short term; However, it seems certain that it will not happen without an audience this year. This is how Matías Lammens, former president of San Lorenzo and current Minister of Culture and Sports of Argentina, considers it.

"Soccer with the public is going to take a while. I can't imagine it for June or July," said the former headline 'Cuevo' in communication with the Fútbol Sin Manchas program. "The German league announced that until August 30 at least there will be no public. I do not know if until next year, at least until the end of the year, well into the end of the year I tell you, for sure," he said.

In this sense, Lammens explained that playing the Super League Cup and the start of the next Super League with people in the stands would be "an unnecessary risk". "We are going to work so that football can return with a very strict protocol, that training sessions, matches can return, but to speak of the public there is still a long way to go," he said.

 

 

The temporary suspension of the Super League Cup was announced on Tuesday, March 17, due to the covid-19 pandemic, a measure by the Argentine government to slow the progression of the disease caused by the outbreak of the new coronavirus.

 

"If football is played behind closed doors, I have no problem. I would love that, at this time, they pass it without a codified system (pay), on open TV, so that those who have to stay at home have a fun ”, had expressed Alberto Fernández, president of Argentina, days before. However, the Executive had to change its determination in the face of public protests by footballers, coaches and other protagonists.

 

A month later, Matías Lammens sees "very difficult to give an accurate or accurate forecast" after consulting foreign sources. "On Thursday I spoke to the president of the Spanish league. They will promote a return to training with a demanding sanitary protocol. You don't know that if you take a step forward, then you can take two steps back. One is afraid to open it and the contagion curve will trip. Then we have to close again, "he added.

 

"The Argentine clubs, the only positive thing is that their patrimony is in dollars and their expenses remained in pesos, the vast majority. The assets, which are the players, have a significant attractive value. But it is also true that the major leagues, such as Europe, the United States, Mexico, the major buyers of Argentine heritage, have to be recovered. From the State we are going to have to work with the clubs so that they can get to the other side of the shore, "said the now minister.

The suspension came after a good part of the first date of the Superliga Cup was played, a tournament with which the Argentine football season was scheduled to be completed until the start of the 2020 Copa América, organized between Argentina and Colombia, which was postponed until 2021 by decision. de la Conmebol, in the face of the health emergency facing the world.

Edited April 20, 2020 by -Dark
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