The Bavarian amateur sport has barely started rolling again than it is being thwarted again.
From Monday, popular sport will be suspended throughout Germany until at least the end of November.
It is not allowed to train or play.
The new regulations hit clubs hard.
basketball
The Pollingers were the first.
They decided in late summer to suspend a season.
Last week TSV Freising canceled 15 of its 16 teams from the game.
"Strong statements", says Nikolaus Voss, department head at ESV Staffelsee.
However, he sees a general withdrawal as the “last option” for the Murnau basketball players.
"We are more likely to try to find a solution with the association." On Friday, the BBV presented its next steps.
In 2020, basketball will no longer be played, and league operations will start after the Christmas holidays in January 2021 at the earliest. President Bastian Wernthaler was "disappointed that the legislature has classified youth sports in particular among the activities that are most likely to be dispensable".
The ESV leadership hopes for solutions from the association.
The hygiene concepts in their previous form "cause a lot of effort," says Voss.
Just one team - the Bayernliga men - has just started playing.
For 18 teams, the head of the division considers these concepts to be "hardly feasible".
There is also an interesting number that the district leadership recently spat out: 77 percent of the games scheduled so far were canceled.
Voss advocates new modes, whatever they look like.
He has already identified a “certain general frustration”.
At least the Murnau residents want to keep the training going as soon as they are allowed to go back into the hall.
So far, no one has announced that they will leave in the event of another lockdown.
All decisions are made in the interests of the members.
Voss emphasizes: "Health is the greatest good."
ice Hockey
The ice hockey clubs of the district league have just started their season, and they are already saying: At least four weeks of compulsory break.
For Felix Utschneider, head of department at ESV Bad Bayersoien, no surprise: “For the past two weeks I have been expecting this to happen soon.” TSV Farchant coach Christian “Butzi” Mayr blows the same horn: “Me it was clear that it would turn out like that. ”His team is in quarantine until Sunday (we reported), and all 15 players have since tested negative for the corona virus.
The ice hockey players from EV Mittenwald are not in domestic isolation, but still without any commitment this weekend.
You should still have played.
But the derby against Bad Bayersoien was canceled by mutual agreement.
"That would have made little sense," says EVM chairman Ralf Marte.
Given the current pandemic development, he doubts that the league can continue as planned in December.
And even if: The problems of the past few weeks in amateur sports will remain.
The fact that in the event of a player who tested positive at the opponent - as happened at TSV Farchant - the entire team is quarantined for 14 days is a massive problem for Utschneider from ESV Bad Bayersoien: “We have two or three players who are self-employed .
They will no longer be able to risk something like that. ”He fears that the amateur sports system will not work in the long term without rapid tests.
Handball
The jerseys are printed, the sweaters have been in circulation since this week.
Partenkirchen shines red. But that can also be understood in a completely different way.
Namely like this: TSV Partenkirchen, rather the entire amateur handball, is in an emergency.
"The damage will be immense," says Hannes Bräu, the sports director, with a view to the game and training ban as well as a possible cancellation of the season.
In recent years, the division has tripled its number of activities, and even in the crisis it has gained members, especially among the smallest.
But Bräu fears that this development could change very quickly, members leaving the club and finding their home in tennis, athletics, in the ski club.
In the individual area.
"That can destroy a lot," emphasizes Bräu.
That is why he belongs to the last legion to defend gaming operations.
“As soon as the state allows it, we want to play handball again.” In the best case scenario, the games should start in January 2021 - analogous to the basketball players.
“Last emergency anchor”, says Bräu about this scenario.
He demands creative solutions from the association and smaller, regional groups.
Certainly the risk of infection is given in contact sports.
On Thursday he picked up his son, two and a half years old, from the test.
The whole Bambini group had been tested.
Result: five positive cases.
Compared to the private sector, celebrations and so on, the risk is lower.
Bräus' message: "If you don't play now because you're afraid, you won't play in a year either." In no case should handball, or rather amateur sport in general, shut down its stage and no longer be present in public.
Club sport has already "lost an incredible amount of potential" in this area over the past ten years.
"That will get worse."
Skiing
Everything depends on Austria. Markus Anwander, head of the Olympic base in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, is banned from waiting for news from the neighboring country this Saturday. Will Chancellor Sebastian Kurz close the ski areas there? Then it looks gloomy for the alpine skiers from the district, in an absolute emergency they have to move to South Tyrol for their snow training. The fact that the Austrians shut down completely "will not happen," predicts Anwander. Skiing plays too important a role there for that. He is counting on the rule: closed to tourists, professionals are allowed to come. Bitter for the children and young people of the Garmisch and Partenkirchen ski clubs. You then have to stay at home - even though you are doing individual sport. However, the question still arises: How is the professional defined? In general, this includes athletes who are employed by an authority such as customs or police who earn their money through sport. But there are skiers from the local ski clubs in the junior squad who still attend school. You would be excluded from training on Austria's slopes. Anwander would like to prevent that.