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Bundesliga hammer! DFL decides to quarantine training camp - Lauterbach immediately lifts his finger

2021-04-22T22:57:48.798Z


The DFL has reacted to the increasing corona infections. All teams in the Bundesliga and 2nd division have to go to a quarantine training camp in May.


The DFL has reacted to the increasing corona infections.

All teams in the Bundesliga and 2nd division have to go to a quarantine training camp in May.

Munich - As expected, the German Football League * has decided on the so-called quarantine training camps for the clubs in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga *.

As the DFL announced on Thursday, all 36 professional clubs will go into isolation for the last two match days from May 12th.

This is to ensure that the current season can end by May 22nd or 23rd.

Before moving to the training camp, players and supervisors should go to a “quasi-quarantine” from May 3, which, according to the DFL, serves to “reduce contact and further minimize the risk of infection”.

The persons concerned should be “only in their home environment or on the training ground or in the stadium”.

DFL sends Bundesliga to quarantine training camp - Hertha BSC case gave the impetus

The quarantine training camps had long been considered as a measure against the rampant corona mutations, but were then initially discarded. In the 2nd and 3rd league Holstein Kiel, SV Sandhausen, Karlsruher SC or Dynamo Dresden were recently sent into quarantine. After Hertha BSC became the first Bundesliga team to be quarantined for 14 days after positive tests last Thursday, the plans came back on the table. The Berliners are currently in quarantine at home until April 29 and then have to play three catch-up games.

With its decision, the Presidium followed a recommendation made by the “Sports Medicine / Special Game Operations” task force headed by national team doctor Tim Meyer.

Accordingly, the clubs have to ensure that players, coaching team and support staff only have contact with one another from May 12th.

All the requirements of the medical-hygienic concept continue to apply.



Should individual persons such as team doctors have to leave the quarantine training camp in the meantime due to special professional obligations, these persons should only be able to return to the team if further protective measures are implemented.

This includes, among other things, a negative rapid antigen test.

Karl Lauterbach warns of quarantine training camps

Most recently, several representatives of Bundesliga clubs had spoken out in favor of barracking, after all, the secondment period for the European Championship begins on May 31. The DFL also referred to the "deadline pressure" as a reason for the measure on Thursday. By the time it goes to the national team, the leagues, whose calendars are full, have to be through with their games. There is no longer much room for catch-up games due to corona-related cancellations.

Hertha alone has to play six league games in May after the end of the quarantine, which will last at least until April 29. Even more corona cases would probably go beyond this ambitious schedule, which is why training camps are now the method of choice. For health expert Karl Lauterbach, however, a bubble concept also harbors risks. "Because if there is a chain of infection there, very many are affected at the same time," said the SPD politician to the SID: "So I would almost continue with the current concept."

Lauterbach praised the DFL's hygiene concepts, which no longer fully protect against the mutant. The players should be aware of the "residual risk". “That is actually the price that has to be paid if you want to finish the league. The DFL's concepts are really good, but it (the B117 mutation / d. Red.) Is just very contagious, ”said the 58-year-old. Hopefully, the mutant's quarantine measures will hold up.

(ck / sid / dpa) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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