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SUSPENDED THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS CUP

OFFICIAL: There will be no Summer Classic between Barça and Real Madrid

Published:11/04/2020 - 00:12h

Updated:1/07/2020 - 09:18h

The International Champions Cup has announced the suspension of his celebration in 2020 owing to the coronavirus, by what Barça and Real Madrid will not confront , as it was foreseen

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To day of today, the football is stopped. They have suspended so much the domestic national competitions like the international, including Champions League and Europe League. All this has supposed that the clubs have lost a lot of million euros owing to not obtaining income by television rights neither sale of entrances. The need to finish the competitions to obtain this income is imperiosa and, thus, is prioritario finish the championships.

It estimates that, in case that they can restart , will not be until of here quite a lot of weeks, what will do that the calendar tighten and that have to play parties without hardly days of rest for the players. In spite of that the Eurocopa planned for this 2020 postponed to the 2021, is very possible that the end of the championships of this course solape with the start of the ones of the following, what will cancel the pre-seasons.

A situation that includes the already typical International Champions Cup, that already had confirmed the suspension of some parties in the previous days but that this Friday has certified the total cancellation of his tournament. Like this it has announced it the organisation of the tournament through his account of Twitter, since the national championships and international officials will need the dates of summer to be able to finish.

"The health of players, technicians, fans and all those that are involved is always the first. The fault of clarity on until when will be necessary the social distance, on when will raise the restrictions and on the international calendar of the football, with the possibility that the European leagues play in August, means that contest the International Champions Cup this summer is unfeasible", transmitted the communiqué.

This yes, the informative note finished with optimism of face to the edition of 2021, in which the organisation will put all the necessary effort to bring to the best teams of the world for the dispute of the tournament in America and Asia. "We expect to bring go back to bring the clubs more incónicos and the best parties to United States and Asia again in 2021", sentenced.

Barça and Madrid, without Classical and without 15 millions

Of face to this summer, the FC Barcelona​ went to be one of the teams participants in the International Champions Cup, by what his suspension has been a reverse in the plans of pre-season. In them, it went in a hypothetical Classical against the Real Madrid, that also participated in the competition, as well as an entry of 15 million euros that both clubs will lose.

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