The Minister of Culture and Sports, Jose Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, was on the Hoy por Hoy program on Cadena SER with Angels Barceló and also Manu Carreño, director of El Larguero. The first topic that centered the interview with Uribes was the return of professional football in Spain and the possible entry of fans. The minister recalled the sense of equality and asked for caution from clubs and fans.
Public in the stands: “I think it should be without an audience initially. LaLiga is a national league and equality is a fundamental rule of sport. We have to take into account health, that equality between clubs is guaranteed and also that now the autonomous communities that are to have to decide in good measure. At this moment, we must start with a precautionary criterion and play behind closed doors “
Hurry: “Haste is bad counselors. It is a good sign that there is a will to return to normality. It is understandable but we have to have responsibility. We are talking about health, lives and that the pandemic is still there. Furthermore, the percentage of immunity is not great and we have to be careful. “
Crowds outside the stadium: “Of course we are concerned. A lot of pedagogy has to be done so that it does not happen. We are better off, but the pandemics have not disappeared. The delegates will have to act to prevent these concentrations.
Public entrance in new normality: “If the conditions are adequate and the sanitary criteria are met, it could be considered. We are moving towards normality. It would be a sign that things are going well but everything must go in its own time. Anticipating events can create a wrong idea in people. there the Autonomous Communities are fundamental and they will have to decide according to LaLiga. “
Government: “It is good for all of us. Culture also comes back with force and all those elements of normalization, with prudence, also give us hope. They situate us. It is good to do it with the caution that this health crisis demands.”
Image of footballers as privileged to stay tested: “I don't see it that way. They do expose themselves to play again in a sport in which there is contact. I think it is an elementary requirement. The more I test everyone the better. I think there are specific circumstances for this and there are We have to keep social distance. We wear the masks but they will be in conditions where there is contact “
Messi: “I am a Real Madrid player but I prefer that he play. I think that equality of arms also applies to Messi. I wish him the best recovery.”
Illa y Montero
After the Council of Ministers this Friday, the ministers Salvador Illa and María Jesús Montero commented on the situation. “They can start the competitions as it was said in their day. Regarding the open broadcast I don't have that information. The agreement is that the parties are held behind closed doors in the conditions that the CSD has agreed and following the protocols that have been designed with the Ministry of Health and that we understand that they are in accordance with what the protection measures of the athletes in competitions, “said Illa.
For his part, Montero commented: “Those territories that are in phase 3 of de-escalation have the competences to determine within the global norms dictated by Health the convenience or not that there are certain events that are held and there is inter-provincial mobility. It is within the framework of that delegation of decision-making capacity. We must trust that when a president of a community decides that there are conditions to be in certain environments is because the health authorities have advised this. “
Declarations not too clarifying, but from which it is extracted that legally, the territories in phase 3 or in new normality would have legal capacity to let it be played with the public, but that The agreement reached by the CSD with LaLiga is to play behind closed doors, even more so in view of the fact that not all territories advance in de-escalation at the same speed.