La Liga knocks down talk of June 20 restart
La Liga has refused to verify Leganes coach Javier Aguirre's announcement that the Spanish soccer season will re-start on June 20 after being halted for a lot more than three months as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
"There are no confirmed dates to come back to competition," a La Liga spokesman told Reuters on Thursday. "We will begin training sessions and await a government decision about established dates. Our intention is to come back to competition in June."
Talking with Mexican website Marca Claro previously Thursday, Aguirre said he previously been given details of when the campaign would start again and had been informed the season would conclude before the end of July.
"We've a start date for the league, we get started on June 20 and finish officially on July 26. We will play 11 rounds of matches on Saturdays and Sundays and Wednesdays and Thursdays," said Aguirre, whose Leganes side are 19th in the standings. "La Liga has just told me this and I'm happy there are our training programme scheduled."
Clubs in Spain's top two divisions held obligatory testing for players on Wednesday and many teams are due to commence individual training on Friday.
Germany's Bundesliga announced on Thursday that it'll resume action on May 16, rendering it the to begin Europe's top five leagues to resume action.
