The president of Brescia asks to cancel the Italian league

The president of the Italian football club Brescia, last in the classification of Series A (First Division), Massimo Cellino, asked today to cancel the Italian league championship for the coronavirus, which he equated with “the plague”.

“If we talk about soccer, We must cancel everything until next season. Realism, gentlemen. This is the plague “, Cellino affirms in an interview published this Sunday by the sports newspaper “Corriere dello Sport”.

Cellino rules out that there may be a recovery or a season to end, as other presidents like Claudio Lotito of Lazio have defended, and says that if he wants the “scudetto”, that the Italian league give it to him.

“The cup, the scudetto … if Lotito wants it, they will give it to him. He is convinced that he has an excellent team, let's leave him with this idea,” he argues.

The president of Brescia affirms that he has had “fever for three days” and that he has been “quarantined for eleven”, locked up in his house in the municipality of Padenghe sul Garda, in the province of Brescia, while his wife has stayed in Cagliari (Sardinia), one son is in Milan and the rest “outside”.

“I don't care about the championship … I'm scared to leave home, I have depression,” he admits.

“Life comes first. There are ultras who bring oxygen to hospitals, others who mourn their dead, others are intubated. You can not continue playing this year, you have to think about next. There are those who still do not realize what is happening and those are worse than the virus “, Add.

Brescia is currently in last place in the Serie A classification of the Italian league, with 16 points, while the leader is Juventus, with 63, and second is Lazio, with 62.