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FIFA Medical Committee Chairman Recommends No Games Before Sept. 1

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If it were up to FIFA medical committee chairman Michel D'Hooghe, there would be no soccer games until at least Sept. 1.

"Football remains always a contact sport and one of the first things that everybody says is that you should avoid contact for the moment," D'Hooghe said during an interview with Sky Sports (h/t Adriana Garcia of ESPN). "So football can only be possible if contacts can be possible again."

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