The key points
- At the Olimpico for the European football championships at least 17 thousand spectators
- Serie A asks for a thousand spectators per match and then 25%
- From the basketball and volleyball federations, a request to the government to reopen arenas and arenas
Rome is fully confirmed as the host city of the Europeans. The clarification comes from Uefa after the OK of the Italian government in the presence of the public for at least 25% of the capacity of the Olimpico for the four matches of Euro 2020 hosted by Italy starting from 11 June next.
European saved
At the Olympic stadium in Rome, four games will be played as planned in front of 17 thousand spectators or a higher number for at least 25% of the capacity if the epidemiological curve and vaccination plan allow it. The Government will decide on the advice of the Cts. So overcome the worries of a change of plans. Meanwhile yesterday also the presidents of the Fip and Fipav, Petrucci and Manfredi, to consider the presence of the public also for basketball and volleyball games. In a statement to Ansa, the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò he supported the requests: “I am sure that the Government, after the significant opening relating to the European football championships, will consider the request with the appreciated sensitivity it has shown in these hours, with the hope that it will give a further signal of hope to the whole sporting movement to realize the long-awaited and hoped-for restart ».
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Basketball and volleyball
Open to the public also for basketball and volleyball: this is the joint appeal of Gianni Petrucci e Giuseppe Manfredi, respectively presidents of Federpallacanestro and Federvolley. Fipav and Fip “believe that the authorization received from the FIGC represents a sign of hope for the entire national sports movement, but at the same time they ask with equal serenity but clarity, a similar provision for the two disciplines that represent the team sports most important realities after football ».
The two presidents then recall the main events of the season finale. «The Italian volleyball federation will host important world-class events: it will begin with the Finals di Champions League which will be presented just tomorrow and which will be held in Verona on Saturday 1 May with two Italian teams, Trento in the men and Conegliano in the women, which will hunt for the most prestigious club trophy in the Old Continent; it will then continue with the Volleyball Nations League, in Rimini from 25 May to 27 June, which will see the two senior national teams on the road to the Olympic Games as protagonists, but much attention will also be paid to the youth sector with the Under 21 World Cup in September. Then there will be – continues the note – the Beach Volley Finals, also scheduled in September ».
The basketball federation “will organize, through its own leagues, the playoffs of the main men’s Italian championships as well as the important friendly matches of its national teams in preparation for the men’s pre-Olympic tournament scheduled in Belgrade from 29 June to 4 July and the women’s European championship from 17 to June 27. The itinerant circuit of the Italian 3×3 basketball championship will also start in the coming weeks ». “It seems clear, therefore – conclude Petrucci and Manfredi -, that for the sporting movements of volleyball and basketball being able to count on the affection and presence of the public is an indispensable condition, albeit with the necessary guarantees, to plan a restart that takes on the characterized by a concrete signal of a return to normality “. The presidents of the two federations “reaffirm their availability for a meeting with the Government in order to allow a reopening of the gaming facilities”.