Spain’s La Liga championship offered to play in Canary Islands

Association of hoteliers of the Spanish city of Tenerife invited the Federation of football of Spain and the leadership of La Liga to finish the championship in the Canary Islands.

The Association representatives suggested that this option, based on the fact that the Islands are isolated from mainland Spain, Report says citing Marca. 

The Canary Islands-based clubs “Las Palmas” and “Tenerife” are acting in Segunda. Besides, the Islands are traditionally popular tourist built many hotels, and therefore, it is possible to accommodate the staff of the 42 clubs in La Liga and Segunda. 

The championship of Spain, as with other major sporting events in the world, is suspended due to coronavirus pandemic
 At present, Spain is the second worst virus-hit country in the world, with above 148,000 cases and 14,792 deaths.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China’s Hubei province, and the virus has spread to over 200 countries and territories since then.

To date, COVID-19 cases surpassed 1,500,000 globally, resulting in more than 330,000 recoveries and over 88,000 deaths.

On February 11, the WHO officially named the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as COVID-19, and on March 11, declared it a pandemic.