Manchester City's defender Aymeric&nbsp;Laporte&nbsp;will be out of action for a month after he picked up a hamstring injury during City's Champions League win against Real Madrid on Wednesday. The 25-year-old limped off the field in the first half of the game, having made just 8 appearances for City this season. Laporte&nbsp;underwent&nbsp;knee surgery in August 2019 and was making his 4th appearance&nbsp;since his comeback. The defender will miss the final of the League Cup against Aston Villa on Sunday.&nbsp;

Manchester City's defender Aymeric Laporte will be out of action for a month after he picked up a hamstring injury during City's Champions League win against Real Madrid on Wednesday. The 25-year-old limped off the field in the first half of the game, having made just 8 appearances for City this season. Laporte underwent knee surgery in August 2019 and was making his 4th appearance since his comeback. The defender will miss the final of the League Cup against Aston Villa on Sunday.

As the current season of football is on the knife-edge, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin looking at the possible solutions for the leagues and clubs said that the season could be lost if not restarted by the end of June. While saying that the rest of the season could be played in empty stadiums, Ceferin also said that they were looking to resume the games either from mid-May, in June or at the end of June. Just like all football in England has been suspended until April 30, most sporting events across the globe have taken a hit by either getting postponed or cancelled due to the global outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;

All Juventus&nbsp;players including their star performer Christiano Ronaldo and coach Maurizio Sarri have agreed to a 4 month pay cut to help the Italian club during the coronavirus crisis. The players will receive slashed salaries for the month of March, April, May, and June. The Serie A club on Saturday announced that the reduction in salaries will help the club save 90 million euros in the 2019-2020 financial year.&nbsp;

The executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks and NHL's New York Rangers, James Dolan, has been tested positive for the coronavirus. The 64-year-old is now in self-isolation and is experiencing little to no symptoms.&nbsp;Dolan is the first U.S. major pro sports owner known to have tested positive for the virus.

After taking pay-cuts to help the club during coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, Spanish football giants Barcelona on Sunday&nbsp;delivered 30,000 masks to the Catalonia government to help fight the deadly virus.&nbsp;The cub announced that the daily use masks will be distributed to nursing homes. Barca also said that the club was&nbsp;working through its foundation to do as much as possible to help with this crisis, both locally and internationally.

Spanish footballer Toni&nbsp;Antonio Rodriguez Dovale&nbsp;has swapped his football boots with a lab coat as he helps in the pharmacy shop in his city&nbsp;La Coruna. The 29-year-old who has been on Barcelona's youth team and has played for East Bengal &amp; Bengaluru&nbsp;FC in India is a certified pharmacist but never worked in the field due to his football commitments. Dovale&nbsp;now works in his family-run pharmacy shop and also helps his neighbours by delivering medicines.&nbsp;

Juventus' star footballer Paulo Dybala on Friday revealed his coronavirus nightmare as he shared how he struggled to breathe even after a movement of just 5 minutes. The Argentine international though said that he was much better now. The 26-year-old&nbsp;added that since he no longer has symptoms of the deadly virus, he will&nbsp;try to train again. Dybala was one among the 3 other Juventus players who tested positive for the Covid-19.&nbsp;

English football club Manchester United on Friday offered their seasonal ticket holders a refund or a proportional rebate against their seasons ticket for the next year, if the games are scrapped or are played in closed stadiums due to the pandemic scare. The club also said that the deadline for season ticket renewal for the next year dated for the 1st of May was also indefinitely suspended. The Premier League in its next week's meeting will likely extend the suspension of English football that has been already called off until April 30

Following Barcelona's lead&nbsp;Atletico Madrid on Friday urged the labour authorities to allow them to cut salaries of the players and staff members due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has temporarily halted all sporting activities in Spain. The La Liga Club which will take a huge financial hit because of the indefinite suspension of football proposed a partial unemployment&nbsp;plan for its employees. On Friday, Spain announced that over 4800 people had died due to the virus.

In his bid to help the&nbsp;victims of coronavirus in Spain, Manchester United goalkeeper&nbsp;David de Gea&nbsp;has donated a sum of&nbsp;&pound;270,000.&nbsp;the funds will be utilized for providing medical&nbsp;equipment for vulnerable families in his hometown of Madrid, which is currently one of the worst-hit cities in Spain. Initially, it was an&nbsp;anonymous contribution by de Gea&nbsp;before it was made public by the&nbsp;by Community Madrid president.

In his bid to join the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, Tennis World No. 1 Novak djokovic, his wife and their foundation on Friday pledged to donate 1 million euros to the medical authorities of Serbia. The money will be used to buy ventilators and other medical equipment required for the situation.&nbsp;Djokovic said that&nbsp;his foundation's staff will monitor everything to get the equipment in place.&nbsp;On behalf of his country the 32-year-old also expressed his gratitude towards China for helping his native country with medical aid. According to the authorities Serbia has more than 750 positive Covid-19 cases and at least 7 deaths.

Paul Barber, the chief executive of the English football club Brighton on Wednesday confirmed that one of their players has been infected with Covid-19. Barber did not name the player but suggested that the player was ok and was getting the required care. Initially, 3 squad members were tested after showing symptoms of the deadly virus&nbsp;and one of them returned positive. Seagulls are currently practicing social distancing and isolation due to the outbreak of the global pandemic&nbsp;

Barcelona footballers including star striker Lionel Messi and other non playing staff will face a compulsory wage reduction during the period of lockdown, confirmed the La Liga club on Thursday. The step has been taken to check the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Barca also said that their club's facility has been made available to the Catalan government's regional health department. Spain which is under lockdown since March 14 is the 2nd most worst-hit European country after Italy with more than 57000 positive cases.

After Italy surpassed China's death toll, local reports suggest that a Champions League football game between&nbsp;Atlanta-Valencia is being considered to have provided the impetus for such uncontrollable spread of the coronavirus in Italy. 40,000 people were present for the match in Milan and when the residents returned home to Bergamo, the Covid-19 cases suddenly escalated in the city. Bergamo which has become the epicentre in Italy for the outbreak has a population of 1,20,000 people among which 7000 have tested positive and over a thousand have died.

In order to help other employees at the club financially during the coronavirus crisis, Bayern Munic and&nbsp;Borussia Dortmund players have agreed to&nbsp;take temporary pay cuts.&nbsp;Bayern players will take a 20% pay cut, whereas Dortmund stars will waive part of their salaries.&nbsp;Bundesliga season was suspended indefinitely due to the rising concerns of the Covid-19 pandemic and there has been no football action there since march 8.

As Spain went past the 40,000 mark in the number of positive Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the management at Atletico&nbsp;Madrid put out a video applauding the health workers on the giant screen outside their stadium. The video shows the Atletico&nbsp;stars appreciating the effort of the workers and is played at 8 pm every day.&nbsp;

Amid rising coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic&nbsp;La Liga&nbsp;and the Royal Spanish Football Federation have agreed to extend the suspension of the 2019-20 football season indefinitely. professional football in Spain including La Liga&nbsp;will only resume when the&nbsp;Spanish government deems it safe and free of any public health risk. On March 12, La Liga&nbsp;was forced to&nbsp;suspend the season until at least the start of April when a Real Madrid basketball player, who shared training facilities with the football club, tested positive for coronavirus, forcing Real players to go into self-isolation.

English football club Liverpool's CEO&nbsp;on Sunday offered the club's stewards to local supermarkets as customers clamour for goods amid the&nbsp;coronavirus outbreak.
In a series of tweets, Liverpool Football Club chief executive Peter Moor informed that Anfield&nbsp;stadium stewards will volunteer and help manage crowds along with queue management, parking control,&nbsp;assisting the elderly and infirm taking their groceries to their cars, etc.
This is the latest in a line of humanitarian&nbsp;gestures from football clubs, a number of whom have extended their help to people in tough times, donating food,&nbsp;pledged financial help to food banks.

As the coronavirus situation continues to get worse around the world, former&nbsp;Manchester United and Everton&nbsp;midfielder&nbsp;Marouane Fellaini&nbsp;joined the increasing list of footballers to have tested positive for the deadly virus. The 32-year-old is currently playing the&nbsp;Chinese Super League and is reportedly the first CSL player to test positive for Coronavirus in China.

After Juventus' defender&nbsp;Daniele&nbsp;Rugani&nbsp;tested positive for the Coronavirus, their&nbsp;star striker Paulo Dybala&nbsp;too tested positive&nbsp;on Friday. After Rugani&nbsp;had contracted the deadly virus,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Italian football powerhouse announced that 121 people including players, staff, and directors were all in self-isolation as they&nbsp;shared the dressing room on Sunday after Juventus&nbsp;beat Inter Milan&nbsp;2-0 in front of empty stands. Italy is the worst-hit country outside Asia and is also under national lockdown&nbsp;with all sports activities suspended indefinitely.&nbsp;

In order to check the spread of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, South Africa has decided to suspend all cricket and football activities. Cricket South Africa and the South Africa Football Association took the decision after the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday declared Covid-19 a national emergency. Cricketing activities have been suspended for a span of two months, besides this, any gathering of 100 people or more,&nbsp;for football has been banned. The 2-month suspension means one-day cup competitions, like semi-finals and finals, will not be played&nbsp;by the franchise.

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