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Spain Plans to Play Soccer Again … Very Carefully

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LONDON — Daily tests for coronavirus. Only two people in the gym at a time. Players dressing for practice at home.

Those are just some of the protocols La Liga, the organizer of Spain’s top two soccer leagues, deems necessary to allow even practice to take place before games resume, with a new target date of sometime in June. In Spain, like almost every other country in the world, play has been suspended for weeks amid efforts to halt the spread of the disease.

The guidelines are in a confidential 23-page document reviewed by The New York Times.