With professional soccer at a standstill, those in need of their weekly fix are turning to Belarus. It is one of Europe's least-glamorous leagues, but it also says it has no intention of postponing or canceling matches
The league, one of Europe’s least glamorous competitions whose teams rarely reach the group stage of UEFA’s elite Champions League, is drawing foreign fans’ attention and a string of new broadcast deals.
The decision to carry on and allow fans into stadiums has helped the Belarus Football Federation get broadcasting deals with sports networks in 10 countries, including Russia, Israel and India, where fans have been left with nothing to watch.One of the networks broadcasting Belarusian matches is Ukraine’s Sport-1.
“We didn’t expect them to have a decent league over there,” said Viktor Samoilenko, head of Poverkhnost Ukraine, which produces Sport-1, among other channels. “We didn’t know this before because we didn’t show the matches.”President Alexander Lukashenko, who has held power in the former Soviet nation of 9.5 million people since 1994, has downplayed the need for social distancing and bragged that he continues to play ice hockey and embrace fellow players.
Alexander Strok, a club spokesman, said he hopes the international attention will motivate players to step up their game. FILE PHOTO: A man uses a smartphone during the broadcast of soccer match of the Belarusian Premier League or the Vysheyshaya Liga, which keeps playing and holding matches with fans despite the spread of coronavirus disease , at the Smith's bar in Moscow, Russia March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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