BARCELONA – The next league season “will start on September 12.” In the midst of the rush for the return of LaLiga, officialized for June 11, the employer’s president announced during a round table organized by the Marca newspaper the start date of the next course. He gave no more clues … He did so in the midst of a speech vindicating the importance of football in society, both economically and socially. And without detailing the plans in which your association works.
Start on September 12? Something doesn’t add up. Finishing the League this season on July 19 (and the promotion play-off the first weekend of August), the players will have to shorten their vacations exceptionally but they will be able to fulfill the established agreement of a month of rest. Everybody? No. And therein lies the problem.
Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid must play the Champions League in August; Getafe and Sevilla FC the Europa League. And whatever the schedule and format established by UEFA in the dispute of both competitions, taking into account that there are still pending round of 16 matches, the tournaments would not end until well into that month of August … With what hardly (for not to say impossible) the players will be able to enjoy their legal rest.
“The idea of UEFA is to play from the Champions League and Europa League quarterfinals in a single venue and match, but there is nothing confirmed. They will decide on the 17th ”, discovered the president of Getafe, Ángel Torres, opening new questions. If at the beginning it was speculated with August 29 as the date for the Champions League final and four days before, on the 25th, for the Europa League final, understanding that the round-trip match system would be maintained, this new and circumstantial modality would cut the deadlines but it is also understood impossible to finish before August 12, a month before the start of the League next year.
From here on, the question, one of them, is: if any Spanish team reached the final of its continental tournament (in the best case it would be up to four of the four finalists), would their first league games be postponed? next season? If so, which is assumed to be indisputable, the tournament would start lame and would remain so for not less than a month, having to complete weekdays in those first months of competition and already having to do balancing exercises to fit the schedule with the beginning of the continental tournaments, planned, unofficially, for the month of October.
Or Javier Tebas spoke to speak … Or in LaLiga they know many things that the world, today, does not know.
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