Coronavirus: How managers, players and sporting directors are coping

Football is suspended in the UK and across Europe due to the coronavirus pandemic, so how is the lockdown influencing those at the core of the game?

From a chief living 1,000 miles from his better half and youngsters in view of the infection to a wearing executive attempting to run a Premier League club while self-detaching, BBC Sport feature writer Guillem Balague talks by means of video meeting to four individuals with various jobs in football to discover how they are adapting.

'I'm improving guitar skBirmingham City supervisor Pep Clotet sent his better half, Vanessa, their three-year-old child, Max, and one-year-old girl, Helena, back to his local Spain prior this month.

At that point, he thought it was a sheltered choice and the arrangement was for him to go along with them sometime in the future during the worldwide break, which was planned for the last seven day stretch of this current month.

Be that as it may, inside a day of showing up in their old neighborhood of Igualada in Catalonia - a town with a populace of around 40,000 - severe controls to enter and leave the zone came into power.

Spain is Europe's most exceedingly awful influenced nation after Italy and keeping in mind that Clotet's family are close to Barcelona, the Blues manager stays in Birmingham.

"There was a gigantic flare-up in my old neighborhood so the entire town was isolated," he said.

"On the off chance that you go in you are not permitted out. I had to drop my arrangement of going there. When Spain went into lockdown, I self-segregated myself.

"It's a predicament yet it's what we have to do."

So how is Clotet keeping himself involved in the West Midlands from his family?

"I have an extremely decent interest. I play guitar and I'm attempting to improve my abilities," he included.

"Regularly I don't have time. I'm additionally doing a ton of surveys on where we - Birmingham City - ought to be and where we need to go. I'm doing an online course and figuring out how to create myself. I generally plan a couple of days ahead."ills while isolated from family'

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