LaLiga will announce shortly that it will extend its suspension to April

LaLiga will communicate soon, at most in a few days, the extension of the suspension of the Spanish championship while the state of alarm and its extension lasts. The Government is already planning to announce an extension of the confinement decreed for two weeks, surely until the end of Holy Week (April 12), as Minister Ábalos already announced and published El Confidencial Digital, and the employers will shortly communicate that football is not You can therefore resume football. At first it could extend the break until the same date that the Government decreed, so it wants to wait, although You are already aware that it will be difficult to compete again until the end of April or even May.

LaLiga, after meeting several times electronically with the rest of the major competitions, has agreed to take this step. In fact, The Premier has already officially announced that it will suspend its league until April 30. LaLiga will also do the same right away while continuing to redo all the schedules with UEFA. As Javier Tebas himself assured AS in a recent interview, “Until mid-May we have time to resume and for LaLiga to end perfectly before June 30.”

LaLiga has been working since last weekend on five possible alternatives to square the restart of its championship with that of the rest of the countries and with the European competitions. The fact that the Euro Cup has already been officially postponed to June 2021 has made things much easier, although Javier Tebas had already designed different sketches of calendars to present to UEFA, regardless of this decision that was made last Tuesday. Luis Gil, competition director at LaLiga, has been the architect who, together with Thebes, has developed all the new scenarios.

As AS has learned, the proposed alternatives that have already begun to be debated have fluctuated from the most optimistic, which would be to start on April 23, during the week, the most pessimistic, which would happen because they could not restart the championship and make drastic decisions together with the Federation to designate the champion, if there were or if it is left desert, the ascents and the descents. This is the situation that everyone wants to avoid since it would be necessary to put themselves in the hands of UEFA to decide also who will go to Europe next year without having finished the season on the pitch. A scenario that for the RFEF, in the words of Luis Rubiales, “would be totally unfair”.

Now they will continue to work on the UEFA reduced committee to take a good look at all the possibilities. “Until late May we have time to start competing,” the LaLiga president said yesterday. Therefore, several of its alternatives focused on restarting Spanish football in that month, when it is already assumed that the coronavirus contagion curve will be on the decline.

The first option is to play again the weekend of May 2 and 3. And if it is not possible, on the 13th and the 14th, again during the week. Even so, Thebes has also offered more possibilities with which it would no longer be feasible to end on June 30, as desired, since this could cause problems with the contracts of the players that, on the other hand, as announced yesterday by Iusport, FIFA going to check urgently. Thus, it is not ruled out having to finish in July or even in summer if necessary.

What is clear, whatever the calendar plan chosen, is that it will be necessary to play during the week several times. And that, in addition, the Champions and the Europa League could also be played on weekends. In all the possible scenarios to be studied, the Second has also been considered. LaLiga guarantees that all the games will be played (there are 11 days left as in the First) and that also goes through playing the promotion Playoff.