The DFB Cup quarter-finals between SSV Jahn Regensburg and Werder Bremen had to be canceled after Jahn had corona infections.
Update from March 1st, 5:50 p.m.:
There has already been speculation, now there is certainty.
The DFB Cup quarter-finals between Jahn Regensburg and Werder Bremen was canceled on Monday evening (March 1, 2021), according to a message from the DFB.
DFB-Pokal: game canceled due to corona infections!
Jahn Regensburg against Bremen is postponed
The reason for the cancellation of the first quarter-finals in the history of the Regensburg DFB Cup are the "officially ordered quarantine measures for the Jahn Regensburg club," as the association explained.
A new date has not yet been set.
Regensburg's managing director Christian Keller already spoke of "some" positive corona tests in the team early on Monday afternoon, and the infection was only announced by trainer Mersad Selimbegovic on Friday.
The coach had already watched his team's 1-0 win against Paderborn from home.
Now the game that was scheduled for Tuesday evening has been canceled.
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The upcoming games in the 2nd Bundesliga against Osnabrück (Sunday, 1.30 p.m.) and Fürth (March 13) will probably be rescheduled in view of the quarantine regulation.
According to a message from Werder Breme, the Regensburg team had to go into two-week quarantine.
DFB Cup: game before cancellation - Corona cases in the Regensburg surprise team
Update from March 1st, 1.30 p.m.:
SSV Jahn Regensburg sensationally made it into the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup.
The second division should actually play against Werder Bremen on Tuesday.
However, a cancellation of the game is currently considered certain.
Managing director Christian Keller assumes that the other
corona cases in his team have been infected with the British variant
.
Keller reported on Monday that coach Mersad Selimbegovic had found out on Saturday that he had been infected with the mutant, which is considered particularly contagious.
According to Keller, the already strict protective measures were then “no longer strong enough”.
“We weren't any less careful or less attentive, everything went as it always did.
That's why we can't really explain it to ourselves. "
Corona cases at Jahn Regensburg - team must be in quarantine
Coach Selimbegovic had tested positive for the corona virus on Friday, the second division game against SC Paderborn (1-0) on the same evening could still be carried out without the coach according to the hygiene rules of the German Football League.
The association then increased the frequency of the tests to every day, reported Keller.
Yesterday evening, many negative tests came back, but some were missing.
These missing tests all came back positive this Monday morning.
You rule out false-positive tests, said Keller.
A “few” would have been infected with the corona virus.
According to Keller, the responsible health department has already made an oral announcement that the entire team and the supervisory staff must now be in quarantine.
A written confirmation is now required so that it can serve as the basis for a cancellation of the DFB Cup quarter-final against first division club Werder Bremen, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
Jahn Regensburg against Werder Bremen: Cup quarter-finals before cancellation
First report from March 1st, 11:22 am:
Regensburg - Corona alarm at SSV Jahn Regensburg!
The DFB Cup * quarter-final between the second division and Werder Bremen * on Tuesday (6.30 p.m.) is threatened with cancellation.
Further corona cases had occurred in the Upper Palatinate.
The managing director Christian Keller reported at the press conference on Monday and said that the club is therefore expecting the game to be postponed.
The Green-Whites from Bremen "assume that the game will not take place," it said on the homepage on Monday.
DFB-Pokal: quarter-finals between Regensburg and Bremen before cancellation
The entire SSV supervisory team and the team would now probably have to be in quarantine, explained managing director Keller.
There was initially no official notification from the health department in Regensburg and the DFB *.
Regensburg also expect that the next two league games at VfL Osnabrück on March 7th and at home against SpVgg Greuther Fürth on March 13th cannot take place as originally scheduled.
Jahn Regensburg: DFB Cup quarter-finals against Werder Bremen wobbles
Jahn coach Selimbegovic had already tested positive for the corona virus on Friday and then missed the second division game against Paderborn on the same evening (1-0).
The 38-year-old reported to the
Mittelbayerische Zeitung
that he had no symptoms.
Accordingly, he could not explain where he could have been infected.
Selimbegovic had to follow the victory in quarantine at home and was represented on the sidelines by his assistant Sebastian Dreier.
(akl / dpa) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN MEDIA
