The Italian Football Federation announced on Tuesday
the transfer period for players during the summer season,
amid the suspension of Serie A matches since last March
due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.
The federation said that the summer transfer period will begin
on the first of next September, that is, two months after its
normal date, and will end on the fifth of October.
Football matches in Italy have stopped since March due to
the Corona pandemic, and the season expected to continue
until August.
The network “Sky Sports” that the English Football Association
is studying proposals to move the transfer date from this June to
next August, while the French Federation opened the door for
transfers, Monday, for local deals.
expected that the Italian League, which stopped on the ninth
of last March, will resume on June 20 and end on the second
of August.
In the event that the league stops again and the season is not
completed, a complicated calculation method will use in
order to settle the final league arrangement and announce
the winning team.
So far 33,964 people have died in Italy due to the Corona virus,
while the number of epidemics in the country has reached
235,278, which places them in the seventh place globally in
terms of infections.
In late March, doctors believed that the reason behind the spread
of Corona virus in Italy so quickly and unprecedentedly, was
a football match that held last February in the European
Champions League.
The Italian newspaper, “Corriere dello Spot”, revealed that
the match between the Italian team Atlanta and its Spanish club
Valencia in the first leg of the sixteenth round in the European
Champions League, is the reason behind the spread of Corona
virus in Italy.
“The match between Atlanta and Valencia in San Siro was
a biological bomb, especially since it attended by more
than 40,000 people from Bergamo,” the newspaper quoted
doctor Fabiano de Marco, director of lung disease at Papa
Giovanni Hospital in Italy, as saying.
