Once the Champions League is over for Barça and Atlético de Madrid, the two Spanish teams participating in the top European competition, Spanish footballers face a bleak scenario. There is still no date for the start of the First Iberdrola. The Women's League was due to start on September 5, but it was decided to delay it because of the coronavirus pandemic and there is still no calendar on the horizon.
The RFEF and the CSD have not communicated to the clubs the health protocols that must be carried out to start the competition, a situation that has plunged the players into uncertainty and frustration that, once the templates and Once the signings have been made, training sessions will be resumed without knowing when the ball will roll again.
Everything indicates that November is the month chosen for the start of the League, although everything is still up in the air. It is a dramatic scene that has put footballers on the warpath.
Thus, the players have launched a statement through AFE (Association of Spanish Footballers), which explains the following:
“The soccer players of First Iberdrola Together with AFE, given the uncertainty of the start of the competition, we want to express: our great concern in this situation … we understand that we have the right to guarantee the right of our profession and establish the necessary measures to develop it with a health guarantee , since like all workers, our families depend economically on it. We ask that a protocol be developed endorsed by the Ministry of Health … ”and concludes that“ it is strictly necessary that this return to competition be carried out as soon as possible ”.
Players concern
Players like Jade Boho, the African star from Logroño, have published this statement on the networks to make it known to their followers: “First Iberdrola players unite in the face of this unpleasant situation and we want to be taken into account. We still have no league start date when other countries already have their calendar. We want and need a solution ”, he wrote.
Three days ago, the azulgrana Aitana Bonmatí I was already facing the problem with a very explicit message to the president of the CSD, Irene Lozano, after it congratulated Barça on their victory in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Thank you Irene. But after Champions, what do we have left? To this day we do not have a date to compete in the league again while the major European leagues do. Is it working for it? ”The Catalan lamented.
The other major leagues do have a date
The comparative grievance with the other major European leagues has not been long in coming. Thus, in Italy the competition began on August 22, in Germany it will start on September 4, in France and England on September 5 and in Portugal on September 27.