At the annual general meeting of FC Bayern, President Hainer does not come around to talk about the unvaccinated Kimmich.
He has a clear message.
Munich - It took almost half an hour until the name Joshua Kimmich was mentioned for the first time at the annual general meeting of FC Bayern Munich.
With the first item on the agenda, FCB President Herbert Hainer talks about the unvaccinated midfield star who recently contracted the corona virus.
Corona is still very preoccupying for the club, said Hainer when he began his report on the past two financial years.
The association sees vaccination as the best way to lead a normal life again.
The players will be spoken to, said the 67-year-old, who of course alluded to the unvaccinated Bayern stars around Joshua Kimmich.
FC Bayern annual general meeting: "It is not right to pillory Kimmich"
Then the FCB president found clear words: “It is not right to pillory our players and our Josua Kimmich”, warned Hainer and made it clear: “We stand behind our players”.
In doing so, he criticizes the way in which Kimmich in particular stands in the public crossfire.
Kimmich has been reported as one of the most prominent vaccine skeptics in Germany for weeks.
He was the first of the five unvaccinated Bayern stars to admit his prick status.
It was not until Niklas Süle's corona infection with the national team that it became clear who was / was not vaccinated at FC Bayern: Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Michaël Cuisance.
Corona outbreaks shortly before the FC Bayern annual general meeting - malice for Kimmich
Gnabry and Musiala are said to have been vaccinated by now - and Jo Kimmich and Cuisance are also poised to be vaccinated, it said at the beginning of the week.
But then the corona reports rolled over again at the record champions when first Choupo-Moting and then Kimmich tested positive for the corona virus.
Kimmich in particular immediately responded with malice on Twitter.
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