The First and Second Football Divisions and the Endesa Men’s Basketball League (ACB). These are the only three competitions that, according to the current legal framework, are considered professionals in Spanish sport. Therefore, with the indispensable help of their television contracts, they were the only ones that ended last season once the strictest restrictions on confinement had been lifted. The rest of the team sports did not end last season, nor, in many cases, are it clear what the competition will be like this year. No matter how many days they train or, as in the case of Spar Girona, they are three days away from playing the first title of the season with the Catalan League. Competitions such as the First Division of women’s football, the women’s basketball (who can argue today that Laia Palau is not a professional athlete), the Second B and the Third Division of football, the highest categories of handball (included here projects absolutely elite like Barça’s first team), roller hockey, water polo, volleyball … These are examples of categories that, framed within a new concept of “non-professional categories of relevance”, the Higher Sports Council (CSD) wants to regulate at the time of his return to competition with a « Harmonized protocol of action for the return of official competitions of non-professional state level of absolute category»In which, basically, his bet is for the competitions to be behind closed doors.
The CSD must make public, and approve, this protocol before September 14, the deadline set by the Football Federation for the Second B to begin in mid-October, but in a draft to which it has had access Diari de Girona, the body of the Spanish government makes it clear that “opts for the holding of parties / events behind closed doors.” However, the CSD admits that the different regional governments could regulate access to the pavilions and stadiums of their territories in an exception that, with its plan of coexistence groups approved by the Generalitat, is the one that wants to explore the Spar Girona to bring people to Fontajau. One way, however, that the CSD greatly complicates in its protocol when it makes it clear that “when access to the public is authorized for it to be developed with the necessary health security measures, it must be the same for the entire state, for the purpose of guaranteeing equity and sports justice ”. In other words, the Generalitat’s permission for Spar Girona, Olot or Palafrugell to play hockey with the public in their pavilions will not work if the regional governments of Madrid, Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha do not authorize the their respective territories. That is, for the CSD if a team has the option to make public in its pavilion, it should only be able to do so if the other rivals in its league also have that same option.
The draft protocol of the CSD mentions up to seventeen leagues of different sports, in addition to the Spanish championships in motorcycling and rallies and international tennis or cycling competitions, but in terms of Girona sport the measures would affect a dozen clubs. In basketball, the Spar Girona de Lliga Femenina-1 and the Bàsquet Girona de LEB Or; in football, Olot and Llagostera in Second B and Girona B, Banyoles, Figueres and Peralada in Third Division; and in roller hockey Girona, Palafrugell and Lloret for men and Girona for women.
As for handball, the CSD list only talks about the Men’s Honor Division and the Women’s First Division and, therefore, both Bordils and Sarrià (both in the Silver Honor Division) would not be affected by the recommendation of the state government as well as, in basketball, the GEiEG Uni of Women’s League-2 or the Fourth and Bisbal in Men’s EBA League.
Thus teams such as Bordils, Sarrià, GEiEG, Quart or Bisbal would be linked to what the Generalitat decides. At the moment, and with the meetings of more than 10 people banned in both the public and private spheres, a track where the government can move is the Catalan Basketball League which will be played this coming weekend at the Palau Blaugrana: will be played behind closed doors and all matches will be broadcast by Esport3.
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