The footballers in the district are still in waiting mode.
District - The game in the lower football classes should actually have started on the first weekend in September. However, due to the current Corona situation, the so-called restart in the second part of the 2019/20 season is on the weekend of 19th/20. September has been postponed - for now. Annoying for the teams that have been training again for some time and for whom the preparation has actually been completed. But most clubs take it easy.
“Basically you have to take things as they come. And to be honest, we are not surprised at the postponement, ”said Robert Hartmann from the relegation-threatened district league club FC Finsing. "Since we started the preparation for the season comparatively late and some active people are currently on vacation, this gives us the opportunity to practice a few more tactical variants."
Rainer Schmidmüller also sees things relaxed. “In principle, nothing changes,” says the coach of the A-class team FC Fraunberg (Group 7). "We'll continue as before, plan two more preparation games, and then look ma moi."
Maxi Bauer is also quite relaxed about the coming weeks. "For us, the preparation continues as normal," reports the player-coach of the regional league table leader SC Moosen, who is aiming for the title and thus promotion to the regional league. “To achieve our goal, we continue to work week after week.” He is pleased that his boys are fully involved and that they train at a high level. "Hopefully it will start soon", wishes Bauer, who is still looking for test match opponents for the SCM for the weekends without games.
Tobias Huber, department head of the district classics TuS Oberding, has already done that. "We immediately agreed two test matches for both teams," he says, adding: "I could rant now why and why the postponed restart is so, but unfortunately that doesn't help." but not peace. “I am most afraid that this decision will be revised, as the association has done in recent weeks,” says Huber. "Suddenly it is said again that we will start the league cup on September 5th and all plans were in vain again." September “can finally start and also that the league cup will not be canceled without replacement. The ratio of eight weeks of preparation for five or six competitive games until winter would not be great. "
The postponement was not a big surprise for him, admits Thomas Bachmeier, player-coach at third in the table in the district class, FC Hohenpolding. "We have already expected this scenario", he states and gives the Bavarian Football Association (BFV) backing. “This is exactly why the continuation of the season was the right decision by the BFV, at least for clubs as small as we are. So you can postpone the start without ruining a new season. Then we just prepare two weeks longer, we're flexible. ”Basically, he thinks the two-week deadline is right, so that one can wait and see how the situation develops after all the Bavarian vacationers are back. Bachmeier has one point of criticism: "The fact that you can play test games, but not point games, is again debatable."
On the other hand, Benji Tas is quite grumpy. “Of course we don't understand the whole thing at all,” complains the coach of the district class taillight FC Türkgücü Erding. “Why can we play friendlies and not point games? What is the difference? Words start to run out of me. ”And he asks himself:“ How long can we keep the tension high among the players? ”Tas basically gives us some consideration. that everyone is now aware of how to protect themselves. Everyone has made their own experiences in the past few months. “We go to work normally among people and spend our free time only wearing a mask and the necessary intervals,” explains the Türkgücü coach. "But as always, we have to accept the decision."
Leo Balderanos is similarly angry. “In the meantime, the restart is being turned into a real doctoral thesis. How much time do our politicians need for a meaningful decision? "Asks the player-coach of the district class club TSV Aspis Taufkirchen." 22 amateurs chase a ball, the spectators are limited to a manageable number. The relation to swimming pools, bathing ponds, demos etc. is simply not the same. ”In his opinion, the season could have simply been broken off, says Balderanos and sends a clear threat afterwards:“ If there is a restart without spectators, we will do not compete as a club. Spectators are the life insurance of all small clubs. "
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