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THEY POINT TO AUGUST

UEFA studies the new dates for the Champions and Europa League finals

Published:17/04/2020 - 19:44h

Updated:17/04/2020 - 19:44h

UEFA keeps working to solve the coronavirus crisis, and hopes to move forward with its international tournaments as well. The european body would already be studying the new dates for the Champions League and Europa League finals

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The UEFA has gone back to program important meetings for the next week, in which it will analyse again the crisis of the coronavirus. The sportive authorities work actively to look for solutions to the stop of the competitions, and his intention is to have scheduled all the possible stages so that, in what the Governments give green light, the season restart with the minimum risks and complications.

Through a communiqué has done official that on 21 April is foreseen a telematic meeting with the federations member, and two days afterwards, the 23, another of the Executive Committee. The aim of both videoconferences is not another that update the impact of the pandemia and follow putting in common the situation of each country, to develop a planning unified that it contemplate all adjust them necessary.

According to the 'BBC', the organism that directs the European football already would be studying the new dates for the Champions and the Europe League. It is clear that the previous forecast has remained inservible, by what the first final of the first tournament, the feminine, will not contest on 24 May in Vienna, the masculine will not take place the 30 of the same month in Istanbul and the one of the second championship, fixed the 27, neither will arrive to Gdansk.

The rescheduling of the calendar has carried the competitions to finals of the month of August, an estimate that, waiting for novelties, seems more realistic. The quoted half concrete that the recent assessments could fix the feminine final on 23 August, the masculine the 29 and the one of the UEL the 26. This, clear is, whenever they exist the necessary governmental permissions and keeping the headquarters in any case.

For this, this yes, it will be necessary to define how will concretise the eliminatory slopes. Always according to this information, works thinking in two alternatives in function of how advance the desconfinamiento. Everything aims to that will complete to enclosed door, but the question is if they will keep the crosses to double party or it will be necessary to finish the chambers and semifinals with an only meeting so that there is time to finish.

The UEFA insists in that the leagues has priority

The UEFA cleared after one of his last meetings that the priority keeps on being stop the leagues, that go past of the international tournaments so much of clubs as of selections. The idea, in Europe and in the rest of the world as it has added the FIFA, is to minimise the impact of the crisis, and for this it is necessary to reduce the economic losses recovering the pending commitments in the domestic championships.

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