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Süle has Corona: Study reveals terrifying long-term consequences for footballers

2021-11-10T11:27:07.691Z


DFB player Niklas Süle from FC Bayern has tested positive for the corona virus. According to a study, a corona infection can have long-term consequences for football players.


DFB player Niklas Süle from FC Bayern has tested positive for the corona virus.

According to a study, a corona infection can have long-term consequences for football players.

Munich - It was a short stay with the German national team.

After only one night in the DFB team hotel in Wolfsburg, Niklas Süle had to return to Munich on Tuesday morning.

The defender tested positive for the corona virus despite being vaccinated, and four other players were quarantined with him.

Joshua Kimmich, Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiala from FC Bayern and Karim Adeyemi from Salzburg also had to return south.

The DFB kept a cloak of silence about the vaccination status of the isolated players.

Only Kimmich himself recently revealed that he was not vaccinated.

Süle has Corona - defender fails for DFB and FC Bayern

Especially bitter for Süle: The 26-year-old has regained his regular place at FC Bayern under the new coach Julian Nagelsmann this season, and has played almost every game.

Süle is also back in the DFB team and was always in the starting line-up under national coach Hansi Flick.

At the EM in the summer under Löw, he was only used against Portugal for 17 minutes.

Now, of course, Süle will fail for the time being.

The time of his comeback depends on the recovery process after the corona infection, in the best case his club should only be two games missing.

In addition, footballers suffering from Corona such as Süle also have to be extremely concerned about their performance, as a study on long-term consequences now shows.

Corona study: Bundesliga professionals threaten long-term consequences

In the study "The Long Shadow of an Infection: COVID-19 and Performance at Work" (in German: The long shadow of an infection: COVID-19 and performance at work) by the University of Düsseldorf, three scientists examined the consequences of a coronavirus. Illness on professional footballers.

The researchers collected data from the Bundesliga and the Italian Serie A from the start of the pandemic until July 2021. 

During this period, there were a total of 257 players in both leagues who were infected with the coronavirus.

Of these, 233 professionals could be identified through newspaper articles, messages from clubs, players or associations.

Afterwards, data from the data provider "Opta Sports" was obtained from all 1406 players in both leagues for the 15 months in the pandemic.

Corona study: recovered professionals are less likely to be on the field

The scientists focused on two things in their investigation.

Will a player have the same playing time after their recovery?

Can the recovered player achieve the same performance as before his illness?

The result of the study makes you sit up and take notice.

It is 5.7 percent less likely that the player will play as often as before they became ill.

When you look at the absolute game shares, it gets even more drastic.

In the first 150 days, the infected professionals miss almost ten percent of the possible game minutes.

Only then do they return to a level similar to that before the infection, although they still do not quite reach this level even after 225 days.

In addition, the players are replaced earlier or substituted later, an indication of exhaustion.

This effect is not temporary, but mainly remains negative over time.

Study by the University of Düsseldorf

Corona study: weaker performance after infection

To evaluate the performance, the scientists evaluated the number of passports.

According to the study, the number of passes is a well-established tool for measuring the productivity of footballers.

Especially because it is related to values ​​such as acceleration, physical condition and endurance.

The number of passes decreases by 5.1 percent.

In addition: the waste is not temporary, but remains for more than half a year.

The scientists themselves write in the study: “This effect is not temporary, but remains primarily negative over time.

We consider this to be causal evidence that COVID-19 infections cause long-lasting drops in performance for infected individuals. "

For professionals who were over 30 years old, the performance sometimes even decreased by more than ten percent.

Those under 25, on the other hand, were only marginally affected by poorer performance after an infection. 

Corona study: Lauterbach wants to convince Kimmich of vaccination

The science team thinks that in “normal” non-competitive athletes, the performance drops could be even more severe, which is why they make an indirect recommendation: "Ultimately, our results could serve as a further argument in favor of vaccinating young and sporty people."

SPD Corona expert Karl Lauterbach is also familiar with the study.

"This study by the University of Düsseldorf is relevant for Joshua Kimmich because it shows: Covid footballers in the Bundesliga and Serie A in Italy were still 5% less powerful in the game 6 months after infection," tweeted the doctor in relation to the unvaccinated Joshua Kimmich who has to go into quarantine.

“I still hope that Joshua Kimmich will decide to have the vaccination.

The vaccination protects against Covid, severe Covid endangers the skill level, "wrote Lauterbach.

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Source: merkur

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