Italian FA to request postponement of Euro 2020 to complete Serie A season
- Serie A was suspended last week due to the coronavirus pandemic
- The Italian prime minister has declared the whole country will be on lockdown
- UEFA is holding an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss its tournaments
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The Italian Football Federation will ask UEFA to postpone Euro 2020 on Tuesday to allow time to complete the Serie A season.
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced at a press conference on Monday evening that the whole country would be on lockdown from the following morning.
UEFA has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday to discuss whether the Champions League, the Europa League and Euro 2020 can be played amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
On Sunday, Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Gabriele Gravina told Sportsmediaset: ‘We will propose that UEFA postpone the European Championship.
‘We will try to get to the end of this championship (Serie A) because it is fairer and more correct after the many investments and sacrifices of our clubs.’
Seven Serie A players have now tested positive for coronavirus as the illness continues to spread throughout Italy’s top flight.
Five Sampdoria players, as well as a player apiece from Juventus and Fiorentina have succumbed to the virus and must now spend time in quarantine.
Juve’s Daniele Rugani was the first Serie A player to test positive and since then Omar Colley, Albin Ekdal, Antonio La Gumina, Manolo Gabbiadini, Morten Thorsby and Dusan Vlahovic have also been affected.
The severity of the outbreak in Italy saw football suspended on March 11 by the Italian government and it appears unlikely that the game will resume in the foreseeable future.