LA QUINIELA THE GREAT BENEFITED BY THE START OF LA LIGA
The end of restrictions on online bookmakers, key to recovering the volume of bets in the already confirmed restart of La Liga
The President of the Government Pedro Sánchez gave the go ahead this past Saturday that La Liga can resume from June 8. However, the impact of the return of First Division football on the sports betting market will largely depend on whether or not the strict measures that have existed since the State of Alarm came into force at the communication and promotion level.
The Spanish Government has authorized the return of La Liga Santander as of June 8, so if the health and social situation does not reverse the situation, so the First Division of Spanish football could start from that date. Javier Tebas, president of the LFP, has been "very happy" with the return of the League and is already working on a calendar that serves to complete the remaining eleven days of competition before the beginning of August.
The clubs, managers, players, referees ... have shown their joy with the return, but as far as the game is concerned, for now only La Quiniela seems to be in a situation to resume its activity as it was before the start of the pandemic . And it is that the online sports betting sector continues to suffer the strict advertising and promotional restriction measures that began with the start of the State of Alarm and that are expected to rise as soon as it ends.
In this way, the start of the competition depends almost exclusively on the coordination between the health authorities, the Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Professional Football League) and the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Spanish Football Federation).
In any case, it is believed that the first meeting of the First leg could be on Friday 12 with a Seville-Betis, the Seville´s city derby. In addition, the Government is going to advance the permission to carry out collective training sessions to adapt them to the La Liga protocol, which requires an interval of 2 weeks between the start of training sessions and the return to competition. The teams will gradually adapt. They will be played behind closed doors and without an audience.
