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Ending Europe’s exclusion of Roma

The European Union must do more to develop a comprehensive framework strategy for Roma people.

More than ten million Roma people live in the EU – more than the total population of many member-states – plus another four million in the Balkans and Turkey. In numerical terms, the Roma are anything but marginal. Yet no ethnic group in Europe suffers more social exclusion, worse discrimination and greater poverty.

This is the long-standing backdrop to the Second European Roma Summit that the EU’s rotating presidency, currently held by Spain, will host in Córdoba on 8-9 April. The summit also comes at a time when political and social conditions for Roma are worsening in some parts of Europe: the past year has seen an upsurge in racist attacks – shootings of families, homes set on fire – as well as forced evictions and the building of walls around settlements.

The conditions that Roma face are a stain on the conscience of European societies, but also a strain on economic planning and social peace. By 2030, 16% of Slovakia’s under-18s will be Roma, according to a study by the Open Society Foundation Bratislava. The European Commission estimates that by 2040, 40% of the new entrants onto Hungary’s labour market will be Roma. Imagine how massive the social tensions will be if nearly half of Hungary’s school-leavers are still poor, uneducated and rejected by the rest of society.

There has been progress in the five years since ten European countries committed themselves to the Decade for Roma Inclusion. In Spain, there are positive stories about the integration of Roma in Córdoba and the rest of Andalusia. In Hungary, more Roma now have access to affordable housing; Roma in Romania have more possibilities to go to school; and Finland has seen a promising increase in the political representation of Roma.

But, for the most part, national governments have felt little compulsion to help this most marginalised of groups. In some countries, policies even add to discrimination and segregation: despite decades of calls for change, Roma children are still being segregated in schools and often placed in ‘special schools’ with sub-standard education.

The EU can play a critical role. A policy of “explicit but not exclusive targeting of the Roma” means that the EU’s regional funds can be used specifically to help the Roma but also for other groups, where appropriate. This is a sound approach and its benefits are not simply monetary, because it obliges municipal authorities to provide matching sums and to take measures such as providing school buses for Roma children from isolated communities. More money should be earmarked and the approach should be extended to deliver similarly practical results for the Roma in terms of education, health, housing and jobs.

But the EU should also help at the strategic level. It should develop benchmarks, spread best practice and persuade member states to join up their strategies. It also needs to make its own efforts more cohesive. The Commission has developed a range of useful tools, but these are still scattered across policy areas and their effect is hard to measure.

What we would like to see is a comprehensive framework strategy for the Roma at an EU level, a proposal made by the European Parliament that has yet to elicit a response from the Commission.

At the very least, though, the summit must do more than the first European Roma Summit, which produced neither conclusions nor concrete proposals. The Spanish presidency of the EU needs to follow up with a clearly defined set of conclusions for discussion at the next European Council. Millions of Roma currently live in shanty-towns on the margins of European society. Without a concerted policy response, the challenges posed by such exclusion will not go away.

Nicolas Beger is director of Amnesty International’s EU office. Heather Grabbe is director of OSI-Brussels.

Transparency tussles

Complaints and accusations in the world of lobbying.

In the world of Brussels lobbying, it is sometimes hard to differentiate the poachers from the gamekeepers.

The European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA) has accused Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) of a lack of transparency and breaching the code of conduct for lobbyists. CEO is one of the member organisations of the ALTER-EU coalition campaigning for more transparency.

Burson-Marsteller, a public affairs company, received a call from David Leloup asking for information about the company’s work for the Bulgarian government of Sergei Stanishev in 2008. Leloup described himself as a journalist. When asked what news organisation he was working for, Leloup said that he was a freelance journalist working for CEO two days a week.

EPACA has filed a formal complaint to the European Commission using the same complaints procedure that ALTER-EU has used to draw attention to consultancies and trade associations’ lack of transparency and failure to disclose full information.

José Lalloum, EPACA chairman, said: “The least you would expect from an organisation campaigning for transparency is that they behave transparently.”

Olivier Hoedeman of CEO told European Voice that CEO was engaged in “investigative journalism” as part of its activities as a public policy watchdog and that this was common for watchdogs. He said that Leloup had asked a legitimate question (as a journalist) and did not hide who he was working for when asked.

Hoedeman said that, rather than making accusations against CEO, EPACA should “get its own house in order”, pointing out that 11 of 35 EPACA member firms are not on the Commission’s register. 

Investors reassured that loan facility can save Greece

Markets stabilise but there is concern that crisis is spreading to other member states.

FFinancial markets responded positively this morning to indications that the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will offer Greece a three-year €120 billion loan facility. But there are serious concerns that the crisis is spreading uncontrollably to other member states.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the director-general of the IMF, used the €120bn figure yesterday (28 April) when speaking to German parliamentarians, but it has yet to be confirmed by eurozone countries. It did, however, reassure investors that the facility may be big enough to save Greece from having to restructure its debt. Finance ministers and the European Commission agreed on 11 April that the facility would have a budget of €45bn for 2010, but refused to confirm amounts for subsequent years.

Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said that the facility would “give Greece a sufficient breathing space from the pressures of the financial markets to decisively restore the sustainability of its public finances”.

Stabilising markets

The euro stabilised this morning at €1.321 against the dollar after falling to a one-year low of €1.3113 yesterday. The premium that investors demand to hold Greek ten-year bonds compared to German government bonds also fell by 15 basis points. The stabilisation followed two days of turmoil in which global markets have fallen sharply and Greek borrowing costs have soared far beyond those of emerging countries as investors became convinced that Greece would have to restructure its debt.

The relief from further market turmoil is likely to be short-lived, however, unless money from the loan facility is released soon. Investors are acutely aware that Greece needs to find €8.5bn by 19 May to refinance its existing loans.

In a sign of the international dimension of the crisis, Barack Obama, the US president, yesterday called Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, to express concern that the eurozone was not acting fast enough to deal with the problem. The White House said that the two leaders had “discussed the importance of resolute action by Greece and timely support from the IMF and Europe to address Greece’s economic difficulties”.

Rehn said that support for Greece was necessary to “safeguard financial stability in Europe and globally”. He said that the IMF and eurozone were acting in Greece to protect “every euro area member state and its citizens”.

German regional election

Germany is struggling to quell accusations that it has made the crisis worse by delaying triggering the package until after a regional election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest federal state, on 9 May.

The state is currently ruled by a coalition of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the liberal Free Democrats. But support for both parties has fallen recently. Rescuing Greece is very unpopular in Germany, with a recent poll suggesting that 57% of voters were opposed to providing Greece with a loan.

Strauss-Kahn and Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), yesterday took the unprecedented step of directly briefing German parliamentarians on the joint rescue package.

Credit-rating downgrades

Yesterday’s decision by Standard and Poor’s, a credit-rating agency, to downgrade Spain’s sovereign debt by one notch has fuelled concerns that Greece’s problems are spreading to other member states. The move followed Tuesday’s decision by Standard & Poor’s to lower Portugal’s rating by two notches.

The Portuguese government and opposition yesterday held an emergency meeting in which they agreed a programme of austerity measures to rein in the country’s budget deficit and reassure markets. The measures go beyond a budget consolidation plan submitted to the European Commission earlier this year.

“It’s not a question of the danger of contagion; contagion has already happened,” said Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. “This is like Ebola. When you realise you have it, you have to cut your leg off in order to survive.”

Strauss-Kahn warned that the “stability of the eurozone” was at stake if the loan facility was not activated quickly.

Greek fiscal adjustments

Merkel said that work on finalising the conditions to be attached to the loan facility would be accelerated. Officials from the Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF have been in Athens negotiating discussions with the Greek government since last week.

“I am confident the talks will be concluded in the next days,” Rehn said. “The outcome will be a multiannual programme that will lead to major fiscal and also structural adjustments,” he added.

Rehn gave a clear warning to Greece that financial support would be cut off unless Greece “at every stage” met “the conditions of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms”.

Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, said he will call an extraordinary summit of eurozone leaders to trigger to loan facility. The summit is expected to take place on 10 May, but a date will not be fixed until tomorrow (30 April) at the earliest because Van Rompuy is today travelling back from Japan.

Time to make the case for better justice

The Commission must fight its corner over justice proposals.

The Lisbon treaty provides yet another dilemma for Europe’s leaders – not this time in the elevated spheres of diplomacy, but in the harsher world of criminal justice. As of this week, there are now two rival proposals on the table concerning translation and interpretation rights for defendants.

One was put forward last December by 13 member states, which took early advantage of the Lisbon treaty’s provision allowing nine or more member states to propose legislation.

The other was presented this week by the European Commission, which has boldly decided to set its face against negotiating a compromise version with the proposal already before the Council of Ministers.

The Commission’s proposal is comprehensive. EU citizens accused of a criminal offence in a member state whose language they do not speak should have the right to translation and interpretation from the moment of being named as a suspect through the conclusion of their trial, covering conversations with lawyers, interviews with police, and translation of documents. The costs, says the Commission, would be borne by the member state.

Member states worry that the proposed standards might drive up the costs of criminal proceedings against EU citizens qualifying for this assistance. Their proposal limits the right to translation and interpretation.

But the argument is not simply about cost. Mandatory interpretation and translation could be used frivolously by defendants wanting to slow down investigations. It might even prompt prosecutors to postpone or to discard cases that threaten to become too complex and costly because of the proposed right. Justice deferred would, in such cases, risk becoming justice denied – to the state, rather than to the defendant.

This is not a happy precedent for co-operation in the justice and home affairs area, where Lisbon has introduced an additional complexity, by requiring consideration of legislation by the 27 national parliaments. And the Commission proposal is just the first in a series of five measures envisaged to set EU-wide minimum standards for fair trials. Last November, the member states instructed the Commission to come up with a step-by-step approach – instead of the single, wide-ranging proposal that the Commission had planned. The coming months will see work on information on rights and charges, on legal advice and legal aid, on communication with family members and consular authorities, and on protection for vulnerable suspects.

Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, says that she is aiming to have an agreement on the interpretation and translation proposal “before the summer”. That plan looks very ambitious. She will have a lot of work to do to overcome member-state resistance and make the case convincingly for the tougher requirements that she is proposing.

The Commission is eager to get its version of procedural rights, rather than that of the member states, passed into law. It argues that interpretation and translation are fundamental rights that need to be guaranteed across the EU. But for that argument to be credible, it need to show that only EU-mandated minimum standards will provide an effective guarantee. This, the Commission has so far failed to do. It is in a bind.

What the Commission needs to show clearly is that the current situation is unsatisfactory, that the EU needs to legislate, and that stricter rules are required than those proposed by the nine member states. But so far the Commission has been reluctant to criticise the member states collectively for failings in their criminal justice systems – still more to single out individual member states where defendants’ rights fall short of the proposed standards. This coyness is inappropriate.

If the national governments are not protecting the rights of suspects, then this should not be covered up, however uncomfortable a truth it might be. The Commission cannot hope to make its case for EU-wide legislation just by hints and innuendo.

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Previous winners include Jadon Sancho and Gianluigi Donnarumma, with journalists from around the world voting for the game’s most exciting youngsters

Real Madrid winger Rodrygo and SGS Essen midfielder Lena Oberdorf have been named the winners of Goal’s NxGn 2020 awards after being voted the world’s most talented teenage footballers.

Journalists from across Goal’s 43 editions voted on the brightest wonderkids in the game, born on or after January 1, 2001.

Previous winners of the men’s award include Jadon Sancho, Justin Kluivert and Gianluigi Donnarumma, with Rodrygo hoping to emulate their success as he continues his development.

Signed from Santos for €45 million (£39m/$52m) in the summer of 2018, Rodrygo eventually joined up with Madrid last summer and has made quite an impact on Zinedine Zidane’s first team during his maiden campaign in Spain.

He needed just 93 seconds to score a debut goal for Los Blancos before becoming the youngest ever player to score a perfect hat-trick in the Champions League when netting a treble against Galatasaray in early November.

That form saw him earn a first call-up to the senior Brazil squad, with the player once dubbed the ‘new Neymar’ earning his first cap against Argentina in November.

Thus far in 2019-20 he has scored seven goals and provided two assists in 18 matches for Madrid as Zidane’s side chase silverware at home and on the continent.

“There is no point in winning the award, but not following up on the field,” he told Goal upon receiving his prize.

“I think this award motivates me a lot, gives me a lot of confidence. I hope that happens, that I continue this current season very well.”

Rodrygo beat Barcelona forward Ansu Fati into second place, with the 17-year-old having burst onto the scene at Camp Nou this term.

Fati became the youngest player to ever score in the Champions League with his winning goal against Inter in December and is being tipped by some to help fill the void left by Lionel Messi when the Argentine eventually departs Camp Nou.

Manchester United attacker Mason Greenwood completes the top three after a season in which his development has accelerated under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

The England youth international became the youngest European goalscorer in Red Devils history in September and has played a key role in pushing United back towards Champions League football next season.

Rodrygo’s fellow Brazilian Reinier is fourth on the list having joined his compatriot at Santiago Bernabeu in January after a breakout campaign at Flamengo, with his performances earning him comparisons with Kaka.

Eduardo Camavinga of Rennes, meanwhile, finishes fifth, with the 17-year-old defensive midfielder on the radars of both Real Madrid and Barcelona having put in some dominant performances in Ligue 1 this term.

The full list of 50 players, which also includes the likes of Gabriel Martinelli, Takefusa Kubo, Giovanni Reyna, Billy Gilmour and Youssoufa Moukoko, can be found here.

Oberdorf, meanwhile, is the inaugural winner of the women’s prize after a year which saw her become the youngest player to ever represent Germany at international level.

Despite only turning 18 in December, the central midfielder has become a regular for both club and country and is being tipped to become a star of the world game sooner rather than later.

“I feel very proud…it’s a lot of motivation for me to keep going,” Oberdorf told Goal upon receiving the NxGn trophy.

The full women’s list, headed by Oberdorf, will be released on Wednesday, April 1 at 12pm GMT (8am ET).

The Albanian has warned football authorities against calling off the 2019-20 campaign, insisting such a scenario would lead to a “collapse”

If the current Serie A season is cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak it would be a “disaster”, according to Lazio sporting director Igli Tare.

The Italian top-flight has been suspended indefinitely due to the Covid-19 crisis, with players and staff from all clubs across the league currently in self-isolation in accordance with new government rules.

The pandemic has hit Italy harder than any other country in the world, with 101,739 cases confirmed and 11,591 deaths recorded to date.

Despite the fact there are still 13 rounds of Serie A fixtures to be completed, it has been suggested that the campaign could be voided completely if the coronavirus crisis rages on over the next few weeks.

However, Tare says it is still far too far early to make a final decision, with it his belief that the competition must reach its natural conclusion “out of respect for the dead”.

“The season must be completed. The championship must go on out of respect for the dead and all the fans,” the Lazio chief told Sport 1.

“The time is not yet ripe to decide on the cancellation. The number of infected people is decreasing and interrupting the season would be unfair.”

Tare added on the possible financial implications of ending the season prematurely: “For Italian football, stopping here would be a disaster.

“We will try to prevent this from happening with all our strength. In Italian football over 75% of clubs finance their budget through TV rights, if these revenues were not there, it would come to collapse.”

At the moment all players are being forced to maintain their fitness at home, with access to training facilities now restricted amid the lockdown which has been imposed in Italy.

“We would like to return to normal and this also means training,” Tare added. “The players do not wait for anything else, they only wait for the moment when everything can return to normal within the club.

“At that point, we will have to slowly regain shape and get out of this horrible moment as soon as possible.”

Fiorentina owner Rocco Commisso also addressed the current Serie A hiatus during an interview with Italian broadcaster RAI on Monday, but did not share the same views as Tare.

“Let’s think about health now, we’ll talk about football later,” said Commisso. “We’ll see if we can get back to training. But there’s a serious possibility that the championship won’t end.”

The classy midfielder ran rings around the Argentina national team and could have been greater than Diego and Messi… he just didn’t want to be

With preparations for the 1974 World Cup in full flow, with their minds focused on the potential challenge ahead from the likes of Brazil, hosts West Germany and Italy, the Argentina national team had little reason to fear a cursory friendly organised against a regional selection from the city of Rosario. But they had failed to reckon with one man: Trinche Carlovich, the legend of the lower leagues who would soon become the Albiceleste’s nightmare.

Tomas Carlovich was two days short of his 28th birthday on April 17, 1974, when the national team came to Rosario. A native of the port city, birthplace of Lionel Messi, Marcelo Bielsa and countless other Argentine football legends, he had come up through the ranks of Rosario Central but left having played just one game.

It was at Central Cordoba, historic poor relations to local giants Central and Newell’s Old Boys, that he came to the fore, scoring twice on his debut for the club and in his first season leading the Matador out of the third-tier Primera C for the first time in six years. He went on to play over 200 games in Central Cordoba colours, spaced out over four separate spells and marked with 28 official goals.

So far Carlovich may appear to be just another lower-league journeyman, slogging through the nether regions of Argentine football in a fruitless bid to reach the big time. According to those who saw Trinche at his best, though, nothing could be further from the truth. “He is the most marvellous player I have ever seen,” Jose Pekerman once affirmed, placing the mythical figure in his all-time greatest Argentina XI in the heart of midfield.

Jorge Valdano, a World Cup winner in 1986 and one of the most astute observers of modern football around, told Movistar+ that: “His legend is well known in Rosario. He is the symbol of a romantic football that practically does not exist anymore.” Contemporaries describe Carlovich as a wizardly mix of Fernando Redondo and Juan Roman Riquelme on the field, with the ability to control a game with one swing of his left foot.

Legend has it that Bielsa modelled his game around Trinche and, after failing to make the grade as a footballer, followed him around the rundown stadiums of the Primera B and C for four years to watch his every move. It was Diego Maradona, however, who afforded him the greatest praise: asked by a Rosario reporter upon moving to Newell’s in 1993 what it meant to be the best footballer in the world, the ex-Napoli star replied “the best player in the world has already played in Rosario, his name was Carlovich.”

The player’s inclusion on that fateful afternoon against the Albiceleste was almost an afterthought. In order to avoid accusations of favouring either of Rosario’s arch-rivals, Newell’s and Central, coaches Juan Carlos Montes and Carlos Griguol each agreed to call up five players from their respective sides. The 11th was Central Cordoba’s talisman.

“Griguol told me it would be good to take a player from Central Cordoba. So I said to him, ‘How about Carlovich?’” Montes recalled to DeporTV. The side was hardly short of talent; Central had won the Primera Division the previous year and ceded for the clash a teenage prodigy by the name of Mario Kempes. But against the likes of future World Cup winners Daniel Bertoni, Rene ‘El Loco’ Houseman and Alberto Tarantini they were expected to provide little more than useful ‘sparring’ preparation for the Albiceleste’s 1974 hopefuls.

El Trinche had other ideas. Showing off his full repertoire of tricks in the middle of the park – his signature move was said to be the ‘double nutmeg’, where he would drag the ball through the legs of his opponent twice in a single passage of play – he ran the show as the Rosario Selection went into half-time 2-0 up. “They were asking us to take it easy,” Carlos Aimar, who lined up alongside Carlovich in midfield, recalled to DeporTV . The star did not take part in the second half, raising suspicions, albeit never confirmed, that he was withdrawn to spare the blushes of the national team, who nevertheless limped to a 3-1 defeat after Kempes netted after the break.

It was not Carlovich’s ability that stopped him from going further, but his stubborn refusal to take the game he loved seriously. A spell at Colon up in Primera following his heroics against the Seleccion ended after exactly three games, each of which saw the player retire early through injury, before he beat the retreat back to the Matador.

Later, playing in Mendoza for Independiente Rivadavia, he contrived to earn a red card in the first half of one particular game in order to arrive on time to catch the bus back to his beloved Rosario. That spell did throw up one memorable moment: moonlighting for Andes Talleres, he gave Franco Baresi, then 19, a torrid second half as the tiny club beat mighty AC Milan 3-2 during their 1979 South American tour.

In 1976 he received the call from Cesar Luis Menotti to join up with the Albiceleste; he skipped the call-up. “It was a delight to watch Carlovich play, he had so much ability on the ball,” El Flaco told Movistar+. “I picked him for the national team but he didn’t show up. I can’t remember if he had gone fishing or was on an island: his excuse was that he couldn’t get back because the river level was too high.”

“I always played the same, with the same effort,” the legend himself explained to El Grafico. “Maybe if I’d gone to France or the [New York] Cosmos, a chance I had at the time, it would have changed my life. For me, playing at Central Cordoba was like playing at Real Madrid.

“What does it mean to ‘make it’? In truth I never had any other ambition than to play football. Above all, to stay close to my neighbourhood, my folks’ house, to stay with El Vasco Artola, one of my best friends who took me as a kid to play for Sporting Bigand… I’m a solitary person. When I played at Central Cordoba, if I could I would change by myself in the kitman’s office rather than the dressing room. I like peace and quiet, it’s not a question of attitude.”

Carlovich remains a legendary figure in his native Rosario, signing autographs and posing for photos with admirers who due to their age could not have possibly seen him in the flesh for Central Cordoba, for whom he played his last match in 1986, but nevertheless swear that he was the greatest. His genius was forged far from the cameras and intense exposure of the modern professional game but remains alive thanks to the folklore of his city, the younger generations feeding hungrily on grandparents’ stories of his goals, nutmegs and antics.

Rosario may have given birth to Bielsa, Messi and played (brief) host to Maradona, but there is room for another idol in its football pantheon. And if Diego himself believes that Trinche was the greatest, it would be churlish to argue.

Photography by Ignasi Torné Gualdo (@groundhopperbcn)

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The Blues have had five different managers at the helm since the German took over at Anfield, though both clubs have enjoyed success

Sticking with the same coach for a long period of time is the secret to Liverpool’s recent success, according to Willian – who admits Chelsea have their own way of operating.

Since Klopp was appointed Liverpool manager in October 2015, Chelsea have been led by Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink, Antonio Conte, Maurizio Sarri and Frank Lampard.

The Blues have won league and cup titles in that time, but they have been powerless to prevent Liverpool’s rise to the top in recent seasons – though they did recently knock them out of the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge.

“I think the secret [to Liverpool’s success] is continuity,” Willian told ESPN Brazil.

“The coach has been with the club for almost five years. When you have continuity, you can win titles.

“They had a sequence of important victories, which shows the maturity of the team. You have to have time to get things done, and Liverpool have had a coach and a philosophy for a long time.

“The team is the same, it is only one or two players that change, the base is the same. At Manchester City too, Guardiola has been there for a long time, the philosophy is always the same.”

Chelsea have gone through their fair share of coaches in recent years, and Willian has seen his role in the squad change during his time at Stamford Bridge.

This constant rejuvenating process has worked well enough for the Brazilian, who has won the Premier League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Europa League during his time in west London.

“Chelsea change a lot,” he admitted.

“In seven years, I have had five different coaches and philosophies.

“But even so, we won titles, because Chelsea always had that, it has always been like that and the club has continued to win titles. I think each club has a profile.”

The most recent manager to leave the club was Maurizio Sarri, whose departure was welcomed by large sections of the Chelsea support.

Willian says he doesn’t know exactly why things didn’t work out, but he doesn’t believe Sarri’s tenure was a disastrous one.

“Sarri is a good coach,” he added. “I can’t tell you what happened.

“He had an interesting tactical idea, he liked to play a beautiful game, with the ball.

“Anyway, he won a title, the Europa League, and third place in the Premier League. I don’t know why it wasn’t better. He was a very calm guy on a daily basis.”

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The club say their star man is doing well in his recovery from injury, which continues while English football is suspended

Marcus Rashford has been cleared to step up his recovery from a back injury following positive scans on the problem, Manchester United have confirmed.

England star Rashford has not featured for United since sustaining a double stress fracture in the FA Cup third-round replay win over Wolves on January 15.

There were fears the 22-year-old, United’s top scorer this season with 22 goals, could miss the remainder of the season and Euro 2020, which has since been postponed until next year.

With football almost entirely on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, Rashford could well have the opportunity to return to action if and when the 2019-20 season is resumed.

United said on Monday: “The club can confirm that Marcus Rashford has been cleared to step up his rehabilitation programme following encouraging signs on his latest scans. His progress will continue to be monitored by the club’s medical team throughout the current lockdown period.

“Rashford had been working hard on his rehabilitation with medical staff at the Aon Training Complex, before the coronavirus pandemic forced all of the Reds to work individually at home.”

Speaking to Sky Sports last week,  Rashford said he was feeling “10 times better” as he worked towards a full recovery.

“For me, now it’s just about getting ready to build back up to training and then playing games for the team,” he said.

“I’m in a much better place. I’m much happier than I was about a month ago, so things are looking positive.”

While unable to train or play football, Rashford has been contributing to the effort against the coronavirus pandemic by helping charity FareShare deliver food to local children and families who usually rely on free school meals.

He told the BBC :  “In the past I have done a lot of work in regards to children and when I heard about the schools shutting down, I knew that meant free meals for some kids that they are not getting at school.

“I remember when I was at school I was on free meals and my mum wouldn’t get home until around six o’clock so my next meal would have been about eight. I was fortunate, and there are kids in much more difficult situations that don’t get their meals at homes.

“It is very important, it is at the top of my to-do list. In our generation there have been a lot of positive and negative influences. I am just trying to impact the next generation in a positive way.”