LaLiga asks the clubs for a plan in case the CSD ‘opens’ the stadiums

LaLiga continues that with its firm intention that football fans return to the First and Second stadiums as soon as possible. The fact of seeing how the fans already partially entered the European Super Cup played in Budapest, how they are doing it on basketball courts in our country and even in non-professional Spanish fields (not to mention the bulls …) makes There is uneasiness to follow those same steps. In fact, The employer's association has recently transmitted to the 42 professional clubs, in various meetings, that they have ready and deliver as soon as possible an exhaustive plan of how the return would be addressed of its members to the stands, complying with the strict sanitary measures imposed by the Government, as well as the sanitary protocol drawn up by the League itself with the approval of the Superior Sports Council, and taking into account that the 25-30% would never be exceeded of the capacity.

The president of the CSD, Irene Lozano, has already warned that until 2021 it will be difficult for fans to watch football live as they did until March. And this opinion has not only not changed, but it has gained strength as the national situation is, with sectoral confinements, with infections soared (almost 10,000 on the last day) and with deaths once again well over a hundred. It is not even assured that during this season there will be followers in the different stadiums.

LaLiga acknowledges that it has been moving for a long time to seek solutions, but ensures that it has simply taken this step to have things ready for when the time comes and the CSD of its permission. This was also done with the return of the competition in June, anticipating events. The clubs are being very insistent on this issue because a good part of their losses (240 million euros in total in the last season) have come from the issue of season tickets. What they have made clear, because LaLiga was not blunt with this (in May it did not matter that there was an audience where they could), is that there are fans everywhere or nowhere to preserve the integrity of the competition.

At the moment there is not even talk of dates, nor will there be any in the short term, and everything continues to depend on the health authorities. It will be necessary to see how this firmness of the Government goes hand in hand with UEFA's intentions in the Champions League and Europa League matches, since This same Thursday, it has announced that it intends to allow 30% of the local fans (never visitors) access to the stadiums at the expense of the approval of the local authorities of each country. If there was an agreement here, something that does not seem simple, the fans of Real Madrid, Barça, Atlético, Sevilla, Villarreal, Real Sociedad and surely Granada would benefit.