Serie A could finish with play-off or no champion if COVID-19 halts league again
Football | June 09, 2020 8:42 ISTThere are 12 rounds remaining, plus four matches that were postponed in the 25th round of Serie A.
There are 12 rounds remaining, plus four matches that were postponed in the 25th round of Serie A.
Italian competitions will adopt the temporary law change when they resume next week.
All matches will initially take place without any spectators but Italian football is considering the possibility of allowing fans into stadiums from next month.
The Serie A in Italy will begin from June 20, with Coppa Italia ties taking place before the league.
The 62-year-old Gasperini started feeling sick on March 9, a day before Atalanta played at Valencia in the second leg of the Champions League round of 16.
The Italian Cup, which was stopped at the semifinal stage, will be completed the week before the league restarts.
Italy's sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora has given the green light for Serie A to resume on June 20.
On Tuesday, star forward Cristiano Ronaldo had also turned up for training as clubs in Italy look to get the players up and running before the potential resumption of football in the country.
Last week, Udinese owner Pozzo angered Serie A officials when he wrote a letter to Italian Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora asking the government to step in and slow the league’s restart.
On Wednesday, a Federal Council meeting took place between Italian Football Federation (FIGC) chief Gabriele Gravina, Lega Serie A President Paolo Dal Pino and major stakeholders.
Sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora added that he has called a meeting with soccer officials for May 28 to decide when the Serie A season can resume.
Ronaldo has not been alongside his teammates since helping Juventus to a 2-0 win over Inter Milan on March 8. He flew to his home island of Madeira, Portugal, after that.
The league announced last week that its 20 teams agreed to resume competition on June 13 in empty stadiums.
Parma had conducted tests for their squad and staff and all came back negative except for two players, who are however asymptomatic.
The Serie A is one of the leagues in Europe that did not announce a premature end to the season.
16 out of 20 Serie A clubs have voted in favour of resuming the league from June 13, while the rest four want the league to begin from June 20.
Both clubs posted updates on their social media handles and on their websites of the players and staff in training.
While most clubs in the Italian league are resuming training on an individual basis this week, last-place Brescia is one of the holdouts.
Serie A sides have returned to individual training on Monday with Juventus recalling their 10 overseas players.
Individual training had been allowed by the Italian government to begin from May 4 while group trainings can only be started post May 18.
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