The first football championship of the “big five”, was finally disrupted by the pandemic coronavirus, was the weakest among them — the French. That it will have to cancel, it became clear after the speech of the Prime Minister of France Edouard Philippe, the prohibition of holding sporting competitions until September. Meanwhile, still no reason to think that this championship will be followed by a wave of disruptions. In any case, other major League are continuing to discuss the format of a restart, but the German is going to resume the season in early may.That the French football season is disrupted, it became clear after the speech in the French Parliament, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. He presented an exit plan from the crisis associated with the pandemic coronavirus. And part of that plan was the ban on holding a mass “sport and cultural events” at least until September. Edouard Philippe even specifically focused on the most popular (along with Rugby, too, turned into a victim coronavirus) sport in the country, saying that the government’s decision means that any “professional sports League, including football, will not be renewed”.Now head structures of French football will have to determine how to distribute the awards and places in competitions at the end an unfinished championship and also to exercise or not prescribed rules of the exchange of clubs between the divisions. In “a zone of League of Champions” were located and followed by Marseille from Rennes in the “zone of League of Europe” — “Lille”, “Reims” and “nice”. On the bottom two lines of the table, in the “zone of direct relegation,” he is “Toulouse” and “Amiens”.Some time ago, the Union of European football associations (UEFA) has threatened with sanctions just Euro Cup slots, those countries that will refuse to continue the Championships at least late summer. Later, however, he dramatically softened the position. Now only UEFA encourages League to try to resume the season and bring it to the end, and if it is impossible to do this is to distribute the prizes and bonuses for “sporting principle”.Formally, the championship of France, whose heads before the promulgation of the plan of the government planned the favorable scenario to begin preparations for the restart in mid-may, the second European football championship, surrendering under the onslaught of the pandemic. Shortly before it was announced about the cancellation of the Dutch. It is possible that these tournaments will soon follow Belgian: there’s the same solution is required only to approve. But the leagues included in “the big European five”, to the French the idea to try to resume the season until now, no one refused.No reason to think that in the near future will go the shaft of such failures on their part, like no. In England and Spain are always discussed different formats for the restart, and the Minister of sport Giuseppe Conte has allowed sports teams from 18 may to train: this relief is equal to the chance soon to play the official matches.Last week the German football Association announced that the “ready” to carry out its already may 9th. Naturally, carrying out of matches in front of empty stands and emergency testing of their members and involved in the organization entities. Since then, signs that the German government intends to block the initiative, did not appear.Alex Armor
