While the National Championship still being disputed, where the champion team and those relegated to the First B, from the ANFP They are already working on what the next season will be and have a possible date for the start of the 2021 tournament.
According to El Mercurio, in Quiln they want to start the competition in the second half of March, that is, little more than a month after the current one ends. This provoked the reaction from Sifup, who asked that the new calendar be organized in post of the physical condition of the players.
“It’s not about breaks or travel, but about having a break after a hectic tournament close.”, indicated from the soccer players union to the aforementioned media.
In addition, one of the great concerns of the guild are international cups. In the case of the Copa Libertadores, the Chilean teams that access the preliminary phase have a date to play their matches for March 2, 16 days after the end of the 2020 season.
Meanwhile, the South American Cup, which changed its format and will have two series between Chilean teams, has a start date for March 16, one month after the end of the National Championship.
“We know that it will be difficult but we will ask the ANFP to lobby so that at least the national teams can start later in the cups“Gamadiel Garca, president of Sifup, added to El Mercurio.
With this, the programming of the National Championship was in doubt and will depend on the action of the ANFP before Conmebol to request that the Chilean teams begin their international participations later.
“We understand that the 2020 season was exceptional, but logically the overload is something that we are going to discuss with the ANFP. And this is a purely medical issue, not to burst the players who must face another full season“, Gamadiel Garca, president of Sifup, told El Mercurio.
At the continental level, the Argentine, Venezuelan, Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Bolivian teams are the ones that will have the longest rest time, while in Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Chile they will be the ones that will have the most match overload between the end of their tournament and the end of the tournament. start of the new seasons.
