Casillas, 39, suffered a heart attack during a training session last year and has not played any competitive football since April 2019.
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Lillo, 54, left his post as coach of Qingdao Huanghai last week with the Chinese side claiming he was returning to Spain to look after his “seriously ill” mother.
Spanish players union AFE had voiced concern over players playing in extreme heat with the season now extended into the hottest months of the year in Spain.
The Health Ministry said the total number of people who have died of the new coronavirus in Brazil has risen to 27,787.
Lionel Messi believes he is better off not thinking too much about the risk of being infected by the coronavirus as Spanish football clubs step up their return to activity.
La Liga will return with matches every day, league president Javier Tebas has revealed.
Five players in Spain’s top two divisions have tested positive for COVID-19, La Liga has confirmed.
Soccer clubs in Spain’s top two divisions will return to individual training this week for the first time since activity was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, while organisers will aim to re-start the season in June, La Liga said on Monday.
The Mayor of the Spanish coastal town of Badalona on Wednesday resigned after being arrested for violating the strict curfew imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Spain, a Deputy Mayor, announced.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made the case for ambitious EU fiscal intervention, including shared debt, on Sunday.
The daily pace of new coronavirus infections and deaths in Spain slowed again on Saturday as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was expected to announce a new extension to lockdown measures that have confined most Spaniards to their homes for three weeks.
Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez has donated €1 million to a hospital in the city to help its overburdened health care system deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has registered 932 new COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,935, the Health Ministry in Madrid announced on Friday.
Toilet paper is no longer the problem.
Spanish supermarket shelves are stocked.
Instead, Spaniards are panic-buying beer and wine, olives, potato chips and chocolate.
Atletico Madrid players have agreed to take a 70 per cent pay cut to help the club’s 430 non-playing staff during Spain’s state of emergency.
This is the fifth day in a row with more than 800 deaths in the country, which has been particularly affected by the pandemic, bringing the national death toll to 9,053
However, business leaders and regional authorities criticised the government’s decision to further restrict the movement of people and keep non-essential workers at home until mid-April.
Official figures showed that Spain has became the second country after Italy to register more deaths from coronavirus than China.
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain jumped 14 per cent in the past 24 hours to Monday, with 480 additional deaths bringing the nation’s total to 33,000 cases and 2,200 deaths.
La Liga, following a meeting with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has announced the indefinite suspension of professional football in Spain because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The league said in a statement on Monday that it would not resume until the Spanish government says it is safe to do so.
“The Monitoring Commission established by the current RFEF-La Liga Coordination Agreement AGREES [to] the suspension of professional football competitions until the authorities of the Government of Spain and the General Administration of the State consider that they can be resumed without creating any health risk,” a statement read.
“Both the RFEF and La Liga wish to express our greatest public gratitude to all those who are dedicating their best efforts to provide essential services to the Spanish people and also share our condolences for all the deceased and a warm embrace from the world of soccer to the many families that are losing loved ones.”
Spain’s top flight was initially postponed for two game weeks on March 12, with previous plans to play matches behind closed doors scrapped as the coronavirus crisis in the country worsened.
Things have not improved since then, with Spain struggling to deal with the spread of the virus. The latest figures made available on Monday revealed that there are approaching 30,000 cases in the country and nearly 2,000 confirmed deaths.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced over the weekend that the country would remain under strict lockdown measures until at least April 11, making it impossible for football to resume in the near future.
La Liga president Javier Tebas has floated the middle of May as a potential start date, but league sources told ESPN they don’t want to name any dates until the situation in Spain improves.
Several La Liga clubs have been affected by coronavirus. Valencia – who in February played in Milan, one of the cities at the centre of Italy’s outbreak – said that 35 per cent of the first-team players and staff had contracted the virus.
Elsewhere, Alaves have confirmed 15 cases among players and staff, while Barcelona-based Espanyol have said there are six cases at the club (four players and two members of staff).