FOOTBALL CALENDAR RIPPED UP
Coronavirus is no respecter of people, borders or calendars. This is the ultimate challenge for all football officials, whether at international, regional, national, league or local level.
The rush for easy money by jamming up the current calendar with a ragbag of competitions meant that, come the COVID-19 crisis, there was nowhere to run. There are no spare days or weeks or months in these short-sighted, entangled schedules.
UEFA and CONMEBOL presidents Aleksander Ceferin and Alejandro Dominguez have talked, optimistically, of the day when their international club competitions can resume. Ceferin understands that this is possible only when domestic seasons have been resurrected because instant income will be needed by all the clubs, both from TV and sponsors and through the turnstiles.
Most major football nations have
