Italian Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte
announced that professional soccer teams will be able to resume group training
from May 18, although before that, on May 4, they will be able to practice
sport individually. The move means Serie
A could resume matches in June after soccer was suspended on March 9.
"On May 18 the stores will open and the training of
professional soccer and other sports teams will also be allowed," Conte reported
to the media.
Before, on May 4, you can return to doing outdoor sports,
although always with security measures and strictly maintaining social distance
as a basic rule. "It will be possible to do outdoor sports, respecting the
safety distance of two meters. In addition, professional athletes from
individual disciplines will be able to train in sports centers, respecting the
same safety distance”, Conte pointed out.
This new measure during the coronavirus pandemic is the so-called ‘phase 2’ of the health
emergency. As Giuseppe Conte has stated, the country will gradually return to
the activity in which football is
also involved.
The Italian Prime
Minister acknowledged that he is a great soccer fan and that he would like
the competition to return as soon as possible, but he clarified that the
Government does not want "the players to get sick" and that is why it
will study with the experts "if the conditions to finish the championships
”.