PARIS (Reuters) – The start to the new Ligue 1 season was postponed on Friday night after Olympique de Marseille announced that he had shown 4 instances of COVID-19, announced on Tuesday the LFP, the guiding framework of French professional football.
“In view of the medical effects transmitted through Olympique de Marseille (…) the LFP has to postpone the adjustment of Olympique de Marseille / AS Saint-Etienne to 16 or 17 September,” the LFP said in a statement.
The setting is the only one scheduled for Friday, with the rest of the first circular of the Ligue 1 2020/21 fites spread between Saturday and Sunday.
The LFP told clubs last week that it had set up a “COVID committee” to advise on whether to postpone matches.When a club reports more than 3 cases of coronavirus, the “COVID protocol” that the LFP sent to clubs is likely to be postponed.
Among the “big five” European football countries, France is the only one to finish its season prematurely due to the pandemic.Paris St Germain won the Ligue 1 title.
The Paris club and Olympique Lyonnais have the semi-finals of the Champions League reformed in red, the first time two French groups will face another at this level.Olympique de Marseille is the only winner in France of the biggest prize in European football.
Almost 40 players from 11 Ligue 1 clubs of 20 have tried COVID-19, and some in Saint-Etienne.
Spaniard Mediapro, who owns the broadcast rights to ligue 1’s most productive matches for the 2020/2021 to 2023/2024 seasons, agreed in early June with TF1, France’s largest personal television operator, to shape a new channel to broadcast the most productive Ligue 1 league matches in the country.
Reporting through Sudip Kar-Gupta and Benoit Van Overstraeten; edited by John Stonestreet and Hugh Lawson
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