Everyone at UK Socca would today like to pay tribute to the thousands of our players who are frontline workers, in many cases doing dangerous jobs right now.

We are living in unprecedented times, and sport has ground to a halt throughout the world, meaning that all our competitions are in cold storage at the moment. Although of course there was heartening news yesterday that many countries in Europe have begun to relax their lockdowns.

Our Head Office in the UK is closed until Government guidelines say we can reopen, and we know how lucky we are to be able to have that luxury.

So today, we’d like to pay tribute to our players on the frontline. Without them as doctors, food retailers, postmen, dustmen, teachers who are going in to keep schools open so that the children of these Key Workers can do their job.

This work is vital help the rest of us in the country function as normally as we possibly can throughout the pandemic.

We would like to thank each and every one of you, and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible back on the pitch enjoying a little bit of light relief that you will doubtless need.

There are more important things than football (honestly!) but when football returns, we look forward to welcoming all of you, key workers or otherwise, to Socca once more. The competitions will be even more vital, then as well.

But for now, from all of us at UK Socca to all the frontline workers, in our teams, their families, but also everywhere else, thank you for your hard work.

To the rest of you, please, Stay Home And Save Lives and help us all get through this as quickly as we can.

For the latest World Health Organisation advice, click here