ROME, May 2 — Fifa vice-president Victor Montagliani has said that moving the European football season to the calendar year is a “possibility to be discussed” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic which has brought football to a standstill around the world. In an interview with Italy’s...
Canadian Victor Montagliani elected president of Concacaf, speaks to the media during a news conference as part of the 66th Fifa Congress in Mexico City May 12, 2016. — Reuters pic
The head of world football’s governing body himself has said that football will be totally different when it restarts and that the current stoppage could be a good chance to overhaul the overloaded calendar which is due to run until 2024. “It is not an idea to be discarded, it can be a solution in view of the next two years and this winter World Cup”.
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