Gravina: 'Season must be completed'

By Football Italia staff

The FIGC President Gabriele Gravina reassures he ‘won’t give up’ on completing the season and claims ‘our entire system will benefit’ from a resumption.

With European football at a standstill, the President has calmed the fear of not being able to conclude the season on the pitch.

“I respect science, but I can’t give up,” he told La Repubblica. “We work on how to get back to playing, not on when.

“When Italy come back to life and when there will be the right conditions for other sectors to resume, football will also return.

“I say it once and for all: the championship must be completed, there’s time. The government, League, FIGC, doctors; we will all decide together, responsibly.

“Our entire system would benefit from us restarting.”

The FIGC chief has claimed a championship restricted to only one city will not be possible but could rule out the North of Italy in the event of a resumption.

“A championship without games in the North is a possibility, but not in only one city. We can’t play 10 games on the same pitch over a weekend. We would need 20 sports centres too.

“A definite stop would start a series of disputes, there are already some warnings from some clubs on my table. FIFA has paved the way. The new season will not begin without having concluded the first. We don’t have a deadline to start again, we will go hand in hand with the other European Leagues.

“If they let us play in early June, we have the dates to end at the end of July.”

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