Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers? Bundesliga trainer gives branding speech - "Where are the intensive care beds?"

Unvaccinated professional footballers like Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern are sharply criticized by Markus Söder (CSU) and Hendrik Wüst (CDU).

Is there a compulsory vaccination?

The news ticker.

• Bundesliga: There is a

  lot of

  discussion about

  compulsory vaccinations or the 2G rule for professional footballers

  .

• Cologne trainer Steffen Baumgart gives an emotional incendiary speech (

  see update from November 20, 6.10 p.m.

  ).

• Once again, the focus is on the unvaccinated Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern (

  see first report from November 19

  ).

• This

  news ticker on possible vaccination requirements for professional footballers

  is updated regularly.

Update from November 20, 6.10 p.m.:

In the debate about a possible vaccination requirement or at least the 2G rule for professional footballers, Steffen Baumgart, coach of 1. FC Cologne, gave a downright incendiary speech.

Baumgart was vehemently against compulsory vaccination for professional athletes - even though they have a lot of physical contact.

"The topic of footballers is always everyone's favorite topic, which ultimately interests more than politics themselves. I think we have completely different construction sites," said the former Bundesliga player: "We have a vaccination quota in the Bundesliga 90 percent, if we had that in society, then we would be through.

It's not up to the footballers.

And if we take individual players who have problems with it, that's still a small part. "

Steffen Baumgart criticizes corona policy and possible vaccination requirements for professional footballers

Baumgart says he has even received a booster vaccination against Corona * himself. The 49-year-old continued to protect the professional athletes. "We are just as much a member of this society as everyone else, we have no special status, neither positive nor negative," he said.

But that's not all: The Bundesliga coach from Cologne sharply criticized politics: “In the summer we talked about the fact that autumn could be a difficult situation.

Now we are talking about the fact that politics reacted too late.

The question is whether you shouldn't clean up your own stable beforehand and not think about what the footballers could do.

We have been living with the disease for two years now, so I ask myself the question, where are the intensive care beds, where are the nurses?

We have enough construction sites where we can start, but it's not the footballers. "

Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Hertha manager Fredi Bobic becomes clear

Update from November 20, 4.30 p.m.:

In the debate on whether a vaccination must come for professional footballers, the tone of the Bundesliga is getting rougher.

For example, Hertha manager Fredi Bobic complained decisively about the discussion.

“It's not just about football here!

I know from my colleagues in other professional sports that they are all 90 percent vaccinated - just like at Hertha.

We are still not satisfied with that and want 100 percent.

But these are much higher values ​​than the percentages in the population, "said the Berlin sports director, according to

:" That is why it is the wrong way to discuss professional sport like that.

Politics should focus more on the population. "

Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Borussia Dortmund reportedly 100 percent vaccinated

Update from November 20, 3:30 p.m.:

On this Bundesliga weekend, the big topic next to the football pitches is: Should there be compulsory vaccination or at least 2G for football professionals?

The protagonists have already commented on this in rows, and Borussia Dortmund also made a statement before the home game against VfB Stuttgart this Saturday.

According to BVB, both the entire team and the entire staff are vaccinated against the corona virus.

According to several reports, the vaccination rate in the Bundesliga is over 90 percent.

With the Westphalians it would be 100 percent.

Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Politics put pressure on Bundesliga professionals

Update from November 20, 1:15 p.m.:

Will the 2G rule come for football professionals or is this incompatible with labor law? The minister-presidents agreed "very quickly" that "if spectators in the 2G stadium have to consider that, in our opinion, this should also apply to the professionals," said North Rhine-Westphalia's new minister-president Hendrik Wüst (CDU) afterwards the Bund-Länder-Round: "We have to check now whether we can implement this."

On Friday, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) put pressure on unvaccinated footballers - including Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern Munich.

"Any player who does not agree to take this path there will not do his club a big favor in the end, and neither will the great sport," said the Franconian.

Without Kimmich, who had to be quarantined again, the German record champions surprisingly lost 2-1 at FC Augsburg * yesterday evening.

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Put pressure on unvaccinated footballers: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).

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Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Many Bundesliga professionals are vaccinated against Corona

Update from November 19, 11:15 p.m.:

The debate about unvaccinated footballers is polarizing in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany.

The example of Joshua Kimmich is omnipresent in the discussion.

But, are there any surveys on how many professional footballers are actually not vaccinated against Corona?

As ZDF's “heute journal” reported in the evening, more than 90 percent of Bundesliga professionals are fully vaccinated.

The German elite soccer league is thus well above the national average.

According to the

of the RKI and the Federal

of Health, at least 70.4 percent of the total population (as of November 19) received one or more doses of vaccine.

Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Hasan Salihamidzic from FC Bayern has a clear "attitude"

Update from November 19, 9:30 p.m.:

Around the Bundesliga game of FC Bayern in Augsburg, the sports director of Munich, Hasan Salihamidzic *, commented on whether professional footballers should be vaccinated.

“You know our attitude and our approach to it.

The fact is that there is no compulsory vaccination and everyone in our country can decide individually.

The club's opinion, and mine, is that everyone in the country should get vaccinated.

Because otherwise we won't get out of the pandemic.

It's a difficult situation, ”says Salihamidzic.

The Bosnian reiterated: “The club’s stance is that the only way out of the pandemic is to get vaccinated.

I did it and I hope that many people in our country can do it. "

Compulsory vaccination for professional footballers?

Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern comes into focus

First report from November 19:

Munich - It is a heated debate in the coronavirus pandemic about a possible vaccination requirement * for certain professions.

According to the federal-state round between the Prime Minister and the Chancellery, such a vaccination is to come for employees in hospitals, old people's and nursing homes * as well as for mobile care services.

Now that the fourth wave is rushing through Germany with exploding corona infection numbers and more than half a million active cases, professional athletes are also moving into focus.

Do you also have to have a vaccination if you have close physical contact and use changing rooms together, for example?

One could rightly say that “the footballers are well paid and are role models for young people too.

That is the key point.

And I think they have to behave like role models, ”said North Rhine-Westphalia's head of state Hendrik Wüst (CDU) of

.

They also need to act like role models.

NRW state chief Hendrik Wüst on professional footballers

In Bavaria, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) * held consultations with the CSU-Free Voter Coalition on Friday (November 19) about how to deal with unvaccinated football professionals.

The most prominent example: Joshua Kimmich from FC Bayern Munich *.

"Any player who does not agree to take this path there will not do his club a big favor in the end, and neither will the great sport," said the Bavarian head of government in Munich.

FC Bayern and Bundesliga: Will vaccination be compulsory or will there be a professional ban for unvaccinated professional footballers?

The consequences are already drastic for the employers of the soccer players: From next week Bayern Munich will only be allowed to play before "a maximum of 25 percent" of the possible audience load, as Söder * announced. For the games up to December 15, including the Champions League game against FC Barcelona, ​​a maximum of 19,000 spectators will be allowed into the stadium. The regulation with a quarter of the capacity also applies to the other Bavarian professional clubs.

This Friday, the FC Augsburg arena in the Bundesliga home game against FC Bayern is likely to be sold out with up to 30,600 spectators.

The 2G rule * applies.

At least for the fans in the stands, but not for the footballers on the pitch.

Whether that is still fair is also discussed.

To cope with the crisis, only help vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, explained Söder.

That also applies to footballers.

That would be “a huge signal”, said the 54-year-old Franconian.

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Will vaccination be compulsory or even a professional ban for unvaccinated footballers?

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