LaLiga and RFEF agree training return for Spanish clubs 'subject to health protocols'

Agreement: Clubs could return to training soon
Ben Hayward20 April 2020

LaLiga has agreed with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the National Sports Council that Spanish clubs can return to training, subject to health recommendations.

All football has been suspended in Spain for over a month due to the coronavirus crisis, but both LaLiga and the RFEF remain committed to finishing the season.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas met with RFEF chief Luis Rubiales and National Sports Council (CSD) head Irene Lozano in an eight-hour meeting on Saturday to discuss the future of the competition amid the enforced break due to Covid-19.

"The National Sports Council (CSD), LaLiga and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have agreed to return to professional football training," a statement said on Monday.

Nevertheless, it added that the return would be "subject to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and to the decisions taken by the Ministry of Health" and will only occur "as long as sanitary circumstances allow it and under strict health protocols".

The CSD statement also promised to dedicate part of the resources generated by football's audiovisual rights to aid amateur, Olympic and Paralympic sports, while it also announced a "contingency fund" of €10 million to help the "most vulnerable" athletes amid the shutdown due to coronavirus.​

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