French football wrestles with coronavirus riddle

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PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic is creating a puzzle for French football and, for the moment, those in charge have no idea what the answer might be.

The idea of simply declaring the season over is gaining ground in some quarters but others remain strongly opposed to the suggestion.The top-flight and second division have already been suspended for three weeks, with 10 rounds each to play, and many of the leading voices are no longer insisting it should finish"whatever the cost."

"We hope that the league will finish if it's possible. It really bothers me to see in some people a kind of shame that football wants to come back to life at some point," Pierre Wantiez, general manager of Ligue 2 Le Havre, told AFP. Most clubs have put staff, including players, on part-time contracts and some of the league's foreign stars, including Brazil's Neymar, have gone home.

 

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