FIFA chief Infantino accepts games are at risk due to coronavirus

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BELFAST (Reuters) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said March's international soccer matches could be threatened by the coronavirus but was hopeful that this year's European Championship tournament and the Olympic Games will go ahead unaffected.

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On Friday, six countries reported their first cases of the virus and the World Health Organization raised its global spread and impact risk alert to"very high".

"I wouldn’t exclude anything at this moment. I hope we will never have to get into this direction. I think it will be difficult in any case to make a global ban because the situation is really different," he told reporters. "I think the Euros will take place in June. Before that we have many matches at international level with lots of travelling involved as well so I think we have to monitor the situation and those in charge, the government, the institutions they also take decisions on what is allowed and what isn’t," said Infantino.

"We all hope the Olympic Games will take place as planned and that we can travel safely to Japan in the summer," he said.

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The worlds health is far more important than the economy of these games. Cancel these games for now.

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