Italian prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that professional sports teams can resume training on May 18, while individual sports can resume practice on May 4.
There are hopes Serie A fixtures could resume between 27 May and 2 June – with an end date for the season of early August.
However, there was no formal announcement on the possibility of when Serie A might resume, even behind closed doors i.e without fans in the stadium
Conte said that starting on Monday, Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora “will work intensely with … the soccer system, the professional sports in general, to find a road map that we have already partly defined in terms of the resumption of individual training on May 4 and teams on May 18.
“Then we’ll evaluate if the conditions will allow the leagues that were suspended to be completed,” Conte added. Serie A has been suspended since March 9, when the government ordered a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus emergency.
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) hopes to begin testing players for the virus at the start of May to allow for a safe return to training and has already drawn up a medical protocol.
For the start of training, each club will form a group of players, technical staff, doctors and physiotherapists who will be tested and then isolated in a summer-style training camp.
There are also plans to donate five Covid test kits for each kit used by clubs to avoid the criticism that football is taking away much-needed resources from other areas.
Serie A was suspended on 9 March and a number of players tested positive for the virus. The league has insisted it is committed to finishing the season.
The FIGC had earlier announced that it would push back the formal end of the season from 30 June to 2 August to allow time for remaining games to be completed.
There are 12 full rounds and four outstanding fixtures still to play, with Juventus top, a point ahead of Lazio.
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