The government He wanted to take the pulse of the footballers ten days after the restart of the competition. Salvador Illa, Minister of Health, and Fernando Simón, Director of the Center for Sanitary Emergencies, met telematically on Tuesday with Gerard Piqué (Barça), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Koke (At. Madrid) and Asier Illarramendi (R. Sociedad) to know first-hand the feeling of the players before the return to the fields after almost three months of league break due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Irene Lozano, president of the CSD, has also attended the summit
At this meeting they were scheduled to attend, as originally announced, Leo Messi and Sergio Ramos in their capacity as captains of Barça and Real Madrid. However, both have excused their presence and have delegated their functions to Piqué and Carvajal, respectively.
As reported by the newspaper AS, the Catalan defender has been the most active in the course of the meeting, which Irene Lozano has also attended in her capacity as president of the Higher Council for Sports (CSD).
Piqué has insisted in his position that it would have been better to have more days of collective training
Throughout his speeches, Piqué has insisted that it would have been better have more time of collective training in order to reach the return of soccer in better conditions, as at the time it already transferred Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga.
Something that is now completely unfeasible after the date of 11th of June such as the league restart and that the employers have already set the times for the first two days of the championship, both in the First and Second Division.
Salvador Illa, according to the aforementioned source, has been interested in the state of preparation of the footballers, who has underlined the benefits of health protocol promoted by the Spanish authorities, which has not hesitated to qualify as “the most advanced in Europe”.