FC Bayern and the Bundesliga experience a historically black hour because of the abuse against Dietmar Hopp. Hansi Flick becomes a role model in this chaos. A comment.
- After a "fan" scandal: FC Bayern's game at 1899 Hoffenheim is about to be canceled.
- Ultras the Munich hostile TSG boss Dietmar Hopp dirty and devastated.
- Hansi Flick shows true greatness in this Bundesliga crisis.
Munich - It was a sad spectacle that the Bundesliga had never seen since 1963.
The game of FC Bayern Munich at 1899 Hoffenheim (6-0) almost had to be stopped after Ultras of the German record champion apparently insulted the founder, financier and boss of the Baden family, Dietmar Hopp , with banners.
Ultras from FC Bayern Munich insult Dietmar Hopp desolate
"Everything the same. The DFB breaks its word. Hopp remains an H ******** ”, it said on banners of the so-called tags in the guest block.
A look back: Borussia Dortmund was punished recently by the German Football League (DFL) because members of the organized fan scene Hopp apparently attacked and hostile banners with inhuman banners at BVB . For the umpteenth time.
Final score: 0-6.
The sporty side moved into the background at #TSGFCB. The game was interrupted due to posters against Dietmar Hopp in the FC Bayern fan block. After returning to the field, the teams only played the ball to each other symbolically. pic.twitter.com/EtTN42u057
The result: For three years, the Westphalia may not bring fans to Sinsheim . In the game of Bayern at 1899 Hoffenheim , a drafted catalog of measures by the DFL took hold: The game was first interrupted.
Then something happened again that the Bundesliga had never seen before: the 22 players on the pitch played the balls with each other, refused to attack and talked to each other. The Sinsheim non-aggression pact.
After abuse: Bayern coach Hansi Flick storms towards the fan block
However, the game was not interrupted by the cautious and confident referee Christian Dingert in order not to give the "fans" in the Bayern block any feeling of satisfaction.
What all friends of the Bundesliga experienced on Saturday afternoon was no less than the next open escalation in the conflict between organized fans, the DFL and some powerful club sponsors.
Before the factually pragmatic catalog of measures taken by the DFL took hold, Hansi Flick involuntarily took center stage. The 55-year-old from Baden ran towards the Bayern fan block .
In the pouring rain: Bayern coach Hansi Flick confronts Ultra Kapos
Immediately, and as one of the first protagonists at all. At his side: Assistant Hermann Gerland , 65 years old - but foaming with incomprehension. Flick , furious, climbed over the gang, pushed past folders in the pullover in the pouring rain in front of the "Kapos" of the Ultras.
TV pictures showed a muscular guy with tattooed upper arms - Flick apparently confronted him.
Flick is one in King # TSGFCB pic.twitter.com/Jl03b94ybD
- jυѕтιи⁷ (@ JustinR7_) February 29, 2020Shortly afterwards, countless people in Sinsheimer Stadion showed solidarity with Hopp .
Bavaria's chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stood with the SAP founder on the sidelines, thousands of people left the arena in protest, thousands of followers chanted " Dietmar Hopp, Dietmar Hopp " and applauded the Hoffenheim patron.
Hansi Flick: Bayern coach becomes a role model in the chaos of Hoffenheim
The Bayern coach * was a role model for all of them on this gloomy afternoon. How he, unclear about the escalation level, ran across the sleazy place and faced the chaos vis-a-vis. At the press conference, he called them "idiots" and certified them "stupidity".
No question: Hansi Flick showed greatness in a black hour of the Bundesliga and FC Bayern . The players and managers are shocked after the game and praise the reaction of the clubs.
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The Bundesliga is gradually showing solidarity with Hoffenheim patron Dietmar Hopp - SC Freiburg coach Christian Streich made an emotional appeal to all of football in Germany.