Coronavirus, Serie A (finally) stops. Scenarios: from the Scudetto playoffs to the slip. Then the worst case scenario: season to ‘freeze’

Gnaw time on Europeans (or just postpone them), freeze the Ranking current only for i placings or even for the title, or even dispute playoffs is playout to end the season. After stopping all the sport asked by Cones and imposed by government, football begins to seriously question what will happen to championship. Indeed, alla A league, because while for the categories lower there is more time to recover, the calendar clogged and the concomitance with Euro 2020 have transformed the maxim series in an almost impossible puzzle from to solve. On the table of FIGC at the moment there are four hypothesis: all unlikely, difficult to travel, with enormous legal risks tohorizon. Nobody really knows what to do, for the simple fact that there is no one rule and not even a previous one. And then any reasoning is based on hope to return to the field on April 3, on which there is no one warranty. However, a decision will have to be made: the alloys updated to 23 March, with the intention of to choose before any recovery. The last word will be up to Football Federation. Let’s see what i am possible scenery.

ASKING SPACE FOR EURO 2020 (OR POSTPONING) – The first hypothesis, the favorite of presidents, certainly the simplest, is that of to free a little space in the calendars by gnawing it on Europeans (scheduled from June 12, with the inaugural game right in Rome). If you really got back on the field on April 3, it could even do not serve a postponement: the FIGC aims to play until May 31 (sacrificing a bit the withdrawals of national), thus postponing the Cup Italy (in August) they would be able to recover all the races. If more time were needed, it could be postponed by one o two weeks. If instead the emergency does prolong, it is clear that at that point it would take all summer to finish the championship: there is talk of slipping the Europeans to 2021, year only in appearance free of international commitments (there are however other competitions such as the Nations League). The main problem is that it does not depend on Italy but onEurope: the first contacts have been started, but the Uefa is against it because the tournament is worth billions. As long as the Champions League will continue normally will be tough convince, a crack will only open if the matter becomes continental. In this sense, from the ban on disputing Basel-Eintracht in Switzerland (it is the first international tender to jump for the Coronavirus) to the many arrangements of closed doors in foreign championships, the first signs of an enlargement of the phenomenon, not to mention the AI ​​blocks international flightsCoronavirus may soon no longer be a problem only ball Italian. And then it will be easier to find a system solution.

THE PLAYOFF FOR SCUDETTO AND RETROCESSION – The other idea to end the championship would be revolutionary: disputing i playoffs for the title and the playout for relegations. So with fewer games from play (compatible with calendar, possibly also with the Europeans) you could still get a verdict on the field. Of course, this solution would have no precedent in the history of A league, but moreover the whole situation it is extraordinary. And already in times you don’t suspect the president Gravina he said he liked the playoff format: it could be an opportunity for experience it.

MONCO CHAMPIONSHIP: FROZEN CLASSIFICATION (AND MANY PROBLEMS) – Then there is it scenario that nobody hopes, also because the most difficult to decipher: the inability to complete the championship, for confirmation of Euro 2020, or for such an extension of the emergency for which not even play in summer suffice. The hypothesis of to delete in full the season, as if it had never played, starting from situation last September: imagine the protests of Benevento is Monza, which are already virtually promoted, or of the Lazio of Lotito that from the race for a historic championship he would find himself back in Europe League. All that remains is “crystallize“The ranking at the last day played in full, with or more probably without assignment of the Scudetto, only for the purpose of identifying i placings Europeans and the demotions. Even so, however, there would be huge problems: Almost impossible to demote someone with 12 more games to play without ending up in court. Someone mentioned blocking demotions, but it is equally foolish to imagine one A league to 22 teams right after the emergency Coronavirus reminded everyone of the need for reduce the number of clubs to lighten the calendar. In short, so it does not come out. More than all the legal problems, bureaucratic and politicians, however, there is a reason that drives i Presidents to find a solution to play: i money. Without matches, the last slice of the revenues of rights TV, which carry on all the caravan, several clubs would be one step away from failure. For this reason, in one way or another, this championship will have to end. Coronavirus permitting.

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