We strongly advise against traveling during the corona pandemic.
For professional soccer players, however, there will soon be trips with the national team again.
The clubs are concerned.
The population suffers from
Corona
- and that inevitably affects professional football.
We
strongly advise against
traveling during the
pandemic
, however:
international matches
are due in November
.
The
clubs are also concerned about the
removal of the national players
.
There is even a
boycott
in the room.
Frankfurt / Dortmund - In view of the uncontrollable number of
corona infections
, the federal government has taken new lockdown measures, this also affects professional football: ghost games will take place in the Bundesliga again until the end of November, after a limited number of spectators were previously allowed in the stadium in some places.
Travel despite Corona: In October, a number of national players tested positive
While the football business is being viewed critically for its special status during the pandemic - after all, games can be played based on a hygiene concept - the question arises to what extent it is justifiable that the national teams will soon be flying across Europe again to fight duels in the Nations League.
The German national team alone has played
three games including a friendly
against the Czech Republic (November 11).
This is followed by the matches against Ukraine (November 14th) and in Spain (November 17th).
Michael Zorc
from Borussia Dortmund, whose club is currently annoying its own supporters with an open letter, has expressed his
dissatisfaction with the
obligation to release national players
.
When asked whether he would like to refuse the Borussia professionals a trip to the upcoming internationals, the BVB manager said: “If we were allowed to, we would certainly think about it.
However, if we don't (approve) the player could be banned.
That is also not in the spirit of the inventor. "
The recent international match trip of the DFB team and Co. receives a spicy side note because after the previous block many professionals tested positive for
Sars-CoV-2
.
The most prominent example is probably Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus Turin, who was on the road with Portugal's selection.
The
corona virus was also
detected
in Bundesliga
players
.
TSG Hoffenheim with Andrej Kramaric, Pavel Kaderabek and Kasim Adams and Dortmund (Emre Can, Manuel Akanji) met it among others.
National team: boycott of the Bundesliga a solution?
Manager divided
TSG manager
Alexander Rosen
had told
Sky
in
mid-October
: “We have to think harder not to turn off the boys.
That is an exclamation point that we now have to set, maybe as a league, maybe via the DFL, that we will act differently in the next period of absence. ”BVB colleague Zorc calls for a lively exchange between clubs and associations: According to him, it is important To "speak to the players and associations
so
that the
risk of infection
is kept as low as possible."
Whether this concern will bear fruit will be shown in the second half of November, when the professional athletes return to their clubs ... Gladbach coach Marco Rose recently commented on
international trips in Corona times
at a press conference:
Bayern coach Flick has also made an emotional appeal to Chancellor Merkel about Corona.
(PF)