ROME (AP) — After nearly 35 years of club ownership — more than anyone else in Serie A — Udinese’s Gianpaolo Pozzo is drawing on his decades of experience to confront the crisis brought on by the coronavirus.
Perhaps that’s why he prefers to be more cautious than most of his peers who are anxious to get the season — and the Italian league’s TV contract income — going again as soon as possible.
Pozzo, who turns 79 on Monday, has been adamant that the league needs a full month of training before restarting games.
That means he thinks the league’s aim of restarting the weekend of June 13-14 is “impossible” without producing a series of player injuries.