The president of LaLiga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP), Javier
Thebes, has criticized this Wednesday the incoherence of the measures on public attendance at stadiums and has stated that “it is consequence of the state of the autonomies“.
Tebas, who has signed in Malaga an agreement of collaboration with the Andalusian Minister of Education and Sports, Javier Imbroda, has referred, among other matters, to the possibility of public return to the stadiums, for which he considered that some crowds of public in matches such as in the Sevilla-Betis derby do not help.
“What cannot be is an ASOBAL match with an audience at 7:00 p.m. and another one of the ACB without an audience at 9:00 p.m. Is inconsistent, but I can't fix it. It is a consequence of the state of the autonomies. We have not valued the economic impact“Tebas asserted.
You have to avoid crowds such as the Sevillian derby or Espanyol fans, which do not help and prevent you from being allowed to return to the stadiums
The president of the football association indicated that “first” you have to see the evolution of the pandemic to analyze if it is possible to return to the stadiums in the third week of april, and said that he hopes it “be so.”
“There is life on the street. I hope in the last week of April and in May we can return. We depend on the Ministry of Health because it is professional sport, but we will not go beyond the criteria of the autonomous communities and what they consider “, Thebes abounded.
He considered that “what most worries the health authorities are the crowds at the entrance and exits of the stadiums “and added that he hopes to have an audience in the stadiums” for after Easter if the pandemic allows it. “
The LaLiga president reiterated his wish that Messi stay and does not rule out the arrival of Mbappé or Haaland
However, he indicated that images such as some fans with flares in the past sevillian derby or last weekend in Barcelona in a match of the Espanyol “do not help”, and insisted that crowds be avoided because otherwise, “the return to the stadiums will not be allowed”.
Thebes also referred to other matters such as the VAR, which “in general terms has been positive“, although he considered that the interpretation of the hands in the area “it would be necessary to give a return”, and to the continuity in the Spanish competition of the Argentine star Lionel Messi, “the best player in history”.
In this sense, he said that he wants “Messi to stay“and, on the possibility of signings like those of the Norwegian Erling haaland or french Kylian MbappéHe pointed out that “there may be some exceptional” in the event that a player leaves and that, although he “would like to have everyone”, “it is complicated.”