Argentina
Football matches in Argentina are likely to be held without spectators till early 2021: Minister
Buenos Aires/Xinhua: Football matches in Argentina are likely to be held without spectators at the stadium at least until early 2021, the country's Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matias Lammens, said on Monday.
Matches have been suspended since March 17, three days before President Alberto Fernandez declared mandatory lockdown measures to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
On August 10, officials authorized the restart of training, though they have yet to announce when national championship matches will begin.
In an interview published on Sunday by the regional daily La Capital in Mar del Plata, a city in Buenos Aires province, Lammens was asked if summer tournament matches will take place "with or without spectators."
"With spectators, I don't think so. If you look at what's happening in Europe, where football resumed more than a month ago, they aren't even assessing the possibility of playing with spectators," Lammens said.
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