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The friendly football match between Atlético Madrid and Juventus which was scheduled for Sunday in Tel Aviv has been rescheduled in Turin for “security reasons“The Italian club announced on Saturday as clashes pit Israel against a Palestinian armed group in Gaza.
The meeting was to take place at the Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv but the company Comtec Group, responsible for organizing the meeting, and the two clubs had announced at the start of the day that it would be canceled “due to the current security situation».
In a new press release published at the end of the afternoon, Juve announced that the meeting would take place, but in its training center in Continassa, Sunday at 6:00 p.m. The match will not be open to the public but will be broadcast on television.
Atlético will play its last preparation meeting on this occasion before facing Getafe, on August 15, during the first day of La Liga. Juve will begin their journey in the Italian league on the same day by receiving Sassuolo.
The Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv was the scene last Sunday of the 2022 Champions Trophy between Paris SG, reigning French champions, and FC Nantes, winner of the cup (victory of PSG 4-0).
But deadly clashes erupted on Friday between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed group operating in the Gaza Strip. The exchanges of fire have already left a dozen dead on the Palestinian side, in what represents the worst outbreak of violence between the two enemies since last year’s blitzkrieg. On Saturday, the Israeli army said it expected an operation “one week».
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