La Liga is staying on track for its June 11 target date.
Only 10 players were allowed in group training last week because of confinement restrictions that are gradually being lifted across the hard-hit southern European nation where nearly 30,000 people have died with COVID-19.
“We’ve gone through some very difficult and complicated moments during this pandemic and we don’t want to jump the gun,” Spanish league president Javier Tebas said late Sunday in his weekly interview with league broadcaster Movistar.Tebas said the competition is expected to resume without fans on June 11 — a Thursday — with the Seville derby.
“We need to align the phases, meet with the Spanish soccer federation and the Spanish sports council to finalize everything,” he said. The league president said kickoff times will take high temperatures into account during the Spanish summer. The Sevilla-Betis game is expected to start at 10 p.m. local time .
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