ROME: Italy’s top-flight soccer matches can go ahead behind closed doors in the area affected by the coronavirus outbreak after the government agreed to a request from the country’s football federation (FIGC), the ANSA news agency reported on Monday.
Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora was quoted by ANSA as saying that sporting events had been banned in the affected regions until Sunday but that “for some events we have given the possibility to play them behind closed doors.”
These would include the game between Serie A leaders Juventus and third-placed Inter Milan in Turin on Sunday.
Seven people have died and more than 220 have come down with the virus, mainly in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto, in Europe’s worst outbreak of the illness.
Bulgarian club Ludogorets Razgrad said on their website that they had been informed by European soccer’s governing body UEFA that their Europa League last 32, second-leg tie at Inter Milan on Thursday would go ahead in an empty stadium at San Siro.
The FIGC said on its website that it had made the request to the Italian government for matches to be played without fans in attendance “to safeguard the sporting competition.”
Four Serie A matches were postponed at the weekend incl
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