Spain is a cause of Worry: The sophisticated plans of the European football Union (Uefa) for the continuation of the European Cup competitions could be just before the Restart of the Champions League and the Europa League to be thrown to the wind. The Corona-news from the Iberian Peninsula, and it promised nothing Good.
the host of the eighth-final second leg game in the Champions League between FC Barcelona and SSC Napoli is at risk due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in Catalonia. According to the radio station RAC 1, the for 8 to. August meeting will be moved to a different location. Uefa, according to the public broadcaster with the regional health authorities in contact and will examine alternative locations. Uefa confirmed this, however, only part of it. “We are monitoring the Situation and are in contact with the relevant local authorities”, informed the Association of the sports information service (sid): “The game is scheduled to take place as planned in Barcelona.”
In the end of February, held the first leg of the FC Barcelona was in Naples about 1:1, came. After the situation in the initial Corona had calmed the crisis area of Catalonia, in the meantime, something were the case, the numbers increased again rapidly. The German Foreign office advises against since a couple of days of “tourist trips” to Catalonia, because again “of high infection numbers and local barriers”.
