Football: J-League to resume first-division matches on May 9

Japan's professional football league plans to resume first-division matches on May 9 after a hiatus of more than two months due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, chairman Mitsuru Murai said Wednesday.The J-League held an extraordinary session of its executive committee Tuesday and decided to abandon a previous plan to restart on April 3. Play has been suspended since late February amid the threat of the pneumonia-causing virus.J2 second-division matches will resume on May 2, while the third division, which had yet to begin, is aiming to start on April 25.Murai said the dates were pushed …READ FULL ARTICLE