Five Italian football championship games scheduled for this weekend, including the clash between Juventus Turin and Inter Milan on Sunday, have been postponed to May 13 due to the epidemic of new coronavirus that is currently affecting the Peninsula, announced The Italian Football League.
Besides Juventus-Inter, the matches concerned are AC Milan-Genoa, Parma-SPAL, Sassuolo-Brescia, scheduled for Sunday, and Udinese-Fiorentina scheduled for this Saturday. These meetings were initially to be held in camera.
According to the League, this decision was made "In view of the succession of numerous emergency regulatory measures taken by the government in response to this exceptional situation of protection of health and public safety".
A disrupted calendar
Last weekend, four Serie A games were already postponed. Two were rescheduled on March 11 (Hellas Verona-Cagliari and Torino-Parma) but two others – Atalanta Bergamo-Sassuolo and Inter Milan-Sampdoria Genoa – have no date yet.
The five postponed matches scheduled for this weekend have therefore been moved to May 13, the date on which the Italian Cup final was originally scheduled. This was moved to May 20.
The latest report shows nearly 900 people infected in Italy by the coronavirus, which has caused the death of twenty-one of them.
