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Spain to Allow Athletes to Return to Individual Training Next Week, Opening Door for La Liga

MADRID (AP) — Soccer players in Spain will be allowed to resume individual training next week, putting the Spanish league on track to restart sometime in June.

The Spanish government on Tuesday revealed a four-phase plan to get the country back to “a new normal” following the coronavirus outbreak, allowing all professional athletes to return to individual training on Monday, several weeks after sports events were halted in the hard-hit southern European nation.

The announcement came on the same day the French government banned all major sporting events until September, ending the country’s soccer season.