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;

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.

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;

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;

While the pain and sufferings due to the Covid-19 pandemic know no bounds, the UK in its largest Covid-19 tracking project has come up with revelations that involve Liverpool's UEFA&nbsp;Champions League meeting with Atletico Madrid. The event that happened on 11th March in Anfield&nbsp;witnessed more than 3000 visitors from Madrid, which was already the Covid-19 epicentre in Europe at that time.&nbsp;The data gathered from millions of volunteers reveal that Covid-19 cases increased tremendously after the match. Apart from this, the study also mentions the 2020 Cheltenham&nbsp;Festival, a four-day event which got underway on the previous day and had 250,000 spectators as another major cause for the outbreak.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday set&nbsp;aside June 8, 9 and 10 as 3 dates to hear Manchester City&rsquo;s appeal against their 2-year ban from European football. Next season's Champions League draw is scheduled for August 27 and&nbsp;a ruling is needed before English teams enter the draw. However, it is likely to be postponed due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. UEFA had banned Man City in February after they were found to have seriously misled European football&rsquo;s governing body and broken financial fair play rules. City had&nbsp;immediately appealed against the judgement in the court of arbitration for sport.&nbsp;

On Wednesday Athletic&nbsp;Bilbao&nbsp;striker Aritz&nbsp;Aduriz&nbsp;announced his retirement at the age of 39 citing health concerns. The Spanish footballer needs a hip replacement and with a heavy heart,&nbsp;Aduriz said that unfortunately, his body had said enough. Aduriz&nbsp;is the oldest player to score for Spain in an international. The La Liga&nbsp;player sighs for not being able to end his career at a high note due to the pandemic.&nbsp;Aduriz&nbsp;has scored&nbsp;141 goals in 296 appearances for Bilbao&nbsp;and has also played for Valencia and Mallorca.

Coronavirus has financially hit almost all the sports clubs around the world and one of the richest football clubs, Manchester United, too couldn't avoid its wrath. The English Premier League side saw their net debt rise by 42% in the first three months of 2020, compared to the same period last year.&nbsp;The club now has a net debt figure of USD 524 million.&nbsp;United's latest financial results run until the end of March when the Premier League was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic from the 13th of that month.

Although the virus scare has not eased out yet,&nbsp;La Liga&nbsp;clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona have taken a step ahead on Monday as they start&nbsp;to practice in groups of 14 at a time. While all La Liga&nbsp;teams had started with individual training of the players, the&nbsp;entire squad&nbsp;is&nbsp;expected to return to training together from next week. Spain had called-off all its sports due to the Covid-19 pandemic and is now trying to resume&nbsp;La Liga&nbsp;behind closed doors&nbsp;by mid-June.

Spanish football club Atletico&nbsp;Madrid's Joao&nbsp;Felix injured himself&nbsp;ahead of a possible resumption of Spanish football.&nbsp;The 20-year-old Portuguese forward has&nbsp;sprained his left knee while he was training with his teammates on Monday, the club confirmed. He&nbsp;is expected to miss some matches due to his injury. The league was suspended in March with 11 rounds remaining and is expected to resume from mid-June.

The English Premier League reported that 2 more players have tested positive for Covid-19 and&nbsp;one of them is confirmed to be Bournemouth goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.&nbsp;The 22-year-old confirmed the news to the Sun and said that he tested positive for the virus&nbsp;in the second round of testing, 3 days after returning a negative result in the first batch of tests.&nbsp;Ramsdale had returned to training when the Premier League allowed clubs to conduct sessions in small groups with players adhering to social distancing guidelines.&nbsp;In line with Premier League protocols regarding positive tests, he will now self-isolate for 7 days.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has reportedly injured his calf while training with his Italian Serie A club AC Milan on Monday. the 38-year-old will undergo medical tests to determine the extent of the injury, and it has been suggested that it is the same affected area where he had previously suffered problems during the 2018-2019 season with Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Galaxy.&nbsp;If confirmed, the injury could bring the curtain down on Ibrahimovic's illustrious 21-year career. Serie&nbsp;A has been suspended since March 9 and the Italian government is expected to decide on Thursday if and when the season can resume.&nbsp;

The Football Association on Monday decided to&nbsp;cancel the top 2 tiers of English women's football seasons with immediate effect because of the coronavirus outbreak. Therefore, along with&nbsp;Women&rsquo;s Super League, second-tier Women&rsquo;s Championship also stands cancelled.&nbsp;Manchester City was leading the Super league season by a point, as second placed Chelsea had a game in hand.&nbsp;

After a week of non-contact training as Premier League clubs are preparing for a potential comeback by next month, the UK government has approved the close contact training&nbsp;for elite sports athletes. While this marks the beginning of phase two and takes the preparation one step ahead towards the resumption of sports, the officials have also published guidelines to ensure the safety of athletes amid the pandemic scare. The close-contact training will be taken&nbsp;forward in proper medical supervision following all safety measures. To ensure players are match fit, the training sessions will include close quarters coaching and tackling in team sports.&nbsp;

To ensure the spirit of the game remains alive, the&nbsp;Borrusia&nbsp;Park&nbsp;hosted a game without fans but the stadium was not empty in Bundesliga&nbsp;on&nbsp;Saturday. The park was packed with&nbsp;13,000 cardboard cutouts&nbsp;of fans for the match which&nbsp;Borrusia&nbsp;Monchengladbach&nbsp;lost 3-1 to&nbsp;Bayer Leverkusen. The fans had sent in their pictures in advance as the team management prepared cutouts&nbsp;and placed them in the empty stands.&nbsp;

An interesting challenge called 'Over the House' was performed by a 19-year-old English professional footballer Scott Pollock on Sunday.&nbsp;On his personal twitter handle, the Northampton Town midfielder&nbsp;shared a video in which he can be seen kicking the ball over his house and then ends up controlling it with his first touch.&nbsp;&nbsp;

While keeping the safety protocols at stake thousands of fans celebrated as&nbsp;BATE Borisov&nbsp;won the Belarusian&nbsp;Cup on Sunday amid the virus scare. The Belarus Soccer federation confirmed that 5,761 tickets were sold for the final game between BATE and Dynamo Brest.&nbsp;While the stadium tried to implement the social distancing norm, the fans eventually gathered in groups to cheer the teams, breaking the rules and most of them were not even wearing masks.&nbsp;

Celebrate a goal, but refrain from hugging each other. That's the official rule from now on in football leagues which have restarted in the times of pandemic.&nbsp;English footballer Jadon&nbsp;Sancho&nbsp;who plays in the Bundesliga scored a goal for Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund that helped them register a 2-0 win against Wolfsburg. Goal celebrations were fine until Sancho&nbsp;ran to hug his teammates. Sancho&nbsp;got reprimanded by the&nbsp;German football officials and he received a warning for the same.&nbsp;

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