ROME: The start of full training at Italy's professional football clubs has been postponed from Monday as they continue to wrangle over the government's medical rules for dealing with the coronavirus.
Serie A clubs hope to resume the league, which has been suspended since Mar 9, on Jun 13 but have been locked in to-and-fro discussions with the government over how to do so safely. "It is obvious that this would not allow us to finish the championship by August because, if there were 2-3 infected in one or two teams, everything would be systematically blocked for a couple of weeks," Cagliari president Tommaso Giulini told Radio Super Sound."Since this has a good chance of happening, it would mean that 80 per cent to 90 per cent of us would not be able to finish by Aug 2 ...
Udinese's technical director Pierpaolo Marino said the uncertainty had made the Jun 13 start date unrealistic and that more training time was needed."We still don't know if from tomorrow we can train in groups or individually, as the current guidelines are not fully applicable. If the league resumes on 13 June, there will be a very high risk of injury.