Former India footballer Bhaichung Bhutia&nbsp;on Monday in a heartfelt gesture offered shelter to the migrant workers of Sikkim understanding their problems after India announced a 21 day lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19. Bhaichung&nbsp;said that in his unfinished building in Gangtok at least 100 workers could accommodate. The 43-year-old added that&nbsp;he would also&nbsp;provide basic ration to the people. Migrant workers across India, desperate to return home are the worst hit by the nationwide lockdown.

Former India footballer Bhaichung Bhutia on Monday in a heartfelt gesture offered shelter to the migrant workers of Sikkim understanding their problems after India announced a 21 day lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19. Bhaichung said that in his unfinished building in Gangtok at least 100 workers could accommodate. The 43-year-old added that he would also provide basic ration to the people. Migrant workers across India, desperate to return home are the worst hit by the nationwide lockdown.

With La Liga set to resume in less than 2 weeks, Real Madrid has decided to play their remaining home games&nbsp;at the Estadio Alfredo di Stefano,&nbsp;a venue used mostly by the club&rsquo;s 'B' team on the city&rsquo;s outskirts. Real Madrid is due to host&nbsp;Eibar on June 14 and that game will now take place in the new 6000-capacity stadium.&nbsp;The decision was taken as Santiago Bernabeu is under renovation&nbsp;and Madrid is not keen on stopping it,&nbsp;as all remaining league games are likely to be played without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;Zinedine Zidane's side currently sit 2nd in the La Liga&nbsp;standings, 2 points behind leaders Barcelona.

Atalanta head coach Gian Piero Gasperini has revealed that he had Covid-19 and started feeling the effects of virus the day before his side faced Valencia in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie&nbsp;on 10th March. The game was played at Valencia's home stadium&nbsp;without spectators as northern Italy was then the epicentre of the virus in Europe. His&nbsp;admission has now angered the Spanish club.&nbsp;Valencia issued a statement saying that such actions would have put numerous people at risk.&nbsp;A week after the match,&nbsp;Valencia had announced that 35% of their squad and staff had tested positive for the virus.&nbsp;Fortunately for Gasperini, he quickly recovered from the deadly virus.

Following Saturday&rsquo;s announcement by the UK government to allow elite sporting events to return behind closed doors,&nbsp;the&nbsp;English Football League said that&nbsp;the second-tier Championship is set to resume on June 20. EFL&nbsp;though also said that the date is subject to the strict provision&nbsp;that all safety requirements and government guidance are met and that clubs receive clearance from their local authorities in order to stage matches at their home grounds.&nbsp;The&nbsp;English Football League was suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

With more than 27,000 deaths, Spain is one of the worst-hit countries due to the global&nbsp;pandemic and as La Liga&nbsp;steps ahead for resumption, the officials have announced details of a planned tribute for the Covid-19 victims. La Liga&nbsp;asked their fans to make audio recordings of themselves applauding the victims which will be later transmitted to the stadiums and played in the 20th minute of each match. La Liga&nbsp;chief Javier Tebas&nbsp;said that they had created the initiative so that fans can take part in the competition and show their support to the heroes of Covid-19. After Bundesliga, La Liga&nbsp;will be the 2nd European league to resume on June 11.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As the La Liga&nbsp;restart date nears, the officials have now released&nbsp;the fixtures for the rest of the season starting June 11. While the Spanish football will resume behind closed doors with a local derby between Sevilla&nbsp;and Real Bettis, Barcelona is set to face Real Mallorca&nbsp;on June 13 and on June 14 Real Madrid is set up against Eibar. Although the organisers have only released details for the first 2 rounds of fixtures, officials have confirmed that there will be matches every day of the week to complete the season by July 19. In March, when play came to standstill due to the virus scare, Barcelona was ahead of Real Madrid by 2 points.&nbsp;

27-year-old Argentinian&nbsp;striker Mauro Icardi&nbsp;has made Paris his home for the next 4 years after he converted his loan move to Paris St Germain&nbsp;permanent. The former Inter Milan striker scored 20 goals for PSG&nbsp;last season and was reportedly paid over 50 million euros by the French giants to stay for 4 years. Icardi&nbsp;had a wonderful time at Inter Milan and had scored&nbsp;124 goals in 219 games for the Italian side but had a bitter fallout with the management which pushed him on a loan to Paris St Germain.&nbsp;

Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund's star&nbsp;Jadon Sancho showed his support for George Floyd after scoring his opening goal in Bundesliga&nbsp;over the weekend. Sancho&nbsp;was cautioned for taking off his match shirt and revealed another one with a quote 'Justice for George Floyd'. The English footballer&nbsp;wasn't the only one as&nbsp;Borussia Monchengladbach's Marcus Thuram&nbsp;also took a&nbsp;knee in a different match to show support for Floyd who died after a white police officer held him down by pressing a knee on his neck last Monday in Minneapolis.&nbsp;

Bayern Munich continued their winning run in&nbsp;Bundesliga&nbsp;as they demolished&nbsp;Fortuna Dusseldorf&nbsp;5-0 in an empty stadium on Saturday night.&nbsp;Robert Lewandowski scored a brace to equal his most prolific season as Bayern&nbsp;opened up a 10-point lead at the top of the table. They are now closing in&nbsp;on their eighth straight Bundesliga title and need to win just 3 of their remaining 5 games.&nbsp;

Mexican top tier football league will kick start a new season from 17th July.&nbsp;Liga MX's&nbsp;last season was cancelled due to the pandemic which has seen close to 90,000 infections and almost 10,000 deaths in Mexico. For the first time in Liga&nbsp;MX's&nbsp;history, no winner was announced as the league was cancelled by the federation.&nbsp;FC Juarez, a local club has confirmed that they will resume training from 8th June to prepare for the new season.&nbsp;

English Premier League giants Manchester United resumed full contact training as the league prepares to restart from 17th June. The club confirmed that the players who were part of individual training resumed contact practice in a bid to regain match fitness ahead of the restart. Premier League was suspended in March due to Covid-19 as players were forced to spend almost 2 months in lockdown&nbsp;without practice.&nbsp;

English football club Blackburn Rovers captain Elliott Bennett and 2 Fulham&nbsp;players have tested positive for Covid-19, the clubs confirmed on Thursday. 3 positive results came out from&nbsp;a total of 1030 tests that were carried out between Monday and Wednesday. Bennett who was asymptomatic to the novel virus will be isolated for 7 days and will return on June 5 for training if he does not show any symptoms. Fulham&nbsp;did not reveal the names of its players due to medical confidentiality but the club informed that their 2 players are undergoing&nbsp;self-isolation currently.

The world's most watch football league, the Premier League will return from the Covid-19 induced break on 17th June. The English league competition will see defending champions&nbsp;Manchester City taking on Arsenal in what promises to be a blockbuster return. The other fixture of the evening will be Aston Villa vs Sheffield United. The other set of fixtures will be released soon as a total of 92 matches are still pending from the current season which was suspended in March due to the pandemic. The matches will be played in empty stadiums and the staff along with players will be tested frequently.&nbsp;

Major League Soccer announced on Thursday that clubs can begin to use outdoor team training facilities for small group practice sessions. Until now, players were only allowed to hold individual sessions at club training grounds as part of strict rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp; The MLS season was suspended in mid-March due to the pandemic and it still remains unclear how and when the league will resume. MLS organisers though are reportedly considering playing a tournament hosted in Orlando, Florida in July.

Who said Zoom call could only be used for office meetings?&nbsp;As professional football returned to Denmark behind closed doors, fans used the conferencing software to be a part of the action. Thousands of Danish football fans logged into Zoom on Thursday evening and were transported into the Ceres Park stadium for a league game between AGF Aarhus and Randers that marked the resumption of country's pandemic-affected season. The faces of thousands of supporters who joined the call were shown on giant screens that ran along one side of the field in the empty stadium.&nbsp;Crowd noise was piped in for the match and cardboard spectators were also placed&nbsp;in the stands.

As a delighting news for football fans in Italy. Their premier football league Serie A is set to resume on June 20. On Thursday, Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora gave the league a green signal, although it will have to wait a week longer than it had initially hoped.&nbsp;Spadafora held a meeting with Italian soccer authorities by video conference after a medical protocol for matches was approved earlier on Thursday.&nbsp;Serie A has been suspended since March 9, when the government ordered a nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

With the football leagues around the world having resumed behind closed doors or with limited fans as part of strict social distancing measures, 2 teams of Czech top-flight football found a unique way for their fans to watch their match on Wednesday.&nbsp;Sparta Prague and Viktoria Plzen played before a limited crowd of 300 in Prague but the die-hard fans who could not make it inside were invited to watch the game on big screens from inside their cars at drive-in movie theaters in Plzen and Prague.&nbsp;Despite social distancing, fans went wild with cheers and celebrated every goal.&nbsp;

As La Liga&nbsp;is set to resume behind closed doors on June 12, Barcelona star Lionel Messi&nbsp;feels that it will be strange at first but he is eagerly looking forward to playing. The Argentine said that playing without fans implies a series of challenges. Preparations at the squad level are the same as for any other match but he also said that individually one has to train and get mentally prepared to play without people because it is very weird. The 32-year-old also said that it will be like starting over as technically it will be the same season but all teams and players will experience it differently.&nbsp;&nbsp;

On a day where English Premier League clubs unanimously voted to resume&nbsp;contact training,&nbsp;Manchester City players continued with isolated practice&nbsp;sessions on Wednesday.&nbsp;The likes of Raheem Sterling,&nbsp;Ilkay Gundogan, Fernandinho,&nbsp;Nicolas Otamendi&nbsp;and others&nbsp;took part in fitness exercises and individual work, while manager Pep Guardiola watched on wearing a face mask. Training session went on even after 4 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the EPL. The league&nbsp;has been suspended since March 13 due to the pandemic and is targeting a mid-June restart.

4 more people from 3 clubs have tested positive for Covid-19, English Premier League has announced. 1,008 tests were carried out on Monday and Tuesday and a fourth round will take place on Thursday and Friday.&nbsp;The news came on the day when the clubs had unanimously voted in favour of a return to contact training, agreeing a move to the next phase of training protocols ahead of a planned resumption of the season. Earlier,&nbsp;8 people including Premier League players and coaching staff had tested positive for Covid-19, with Watford, Bournemouth and Burnley all known to have been affected.

In a potential title decider, Bayern&nbsp;Munich edged past&nbsp;Borussia Dortmund 1-0 to further tighten their grip at the top of the Bundesliga table.&nbsp;Joshua Kimmich's stunning chip just before half-time helped his side open up a&nbsp;7-point&nbsp;gap over&nbsp;second-placed&nbsp;Dortmund on Tuesday, taking their total points tally to&nbsp;64. Bayern&nbsp;now need to win 4 of their remaining 6 games&nbsp;to secure their 8th consecutive Bundesliga&nbsp;title.&nbsp;

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