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In the future, Thomas Müller will again be able to keep his fingers crossed in the empty stadium
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Football record champions Bayern Munich will in any case have to play in front of empty ranks again in the future.
This was announced on Tuesday by Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), who calls for ghost games in all German football stadiums.
“It makes no sense in the foreseeable future to admit viewers again,” said Söder on Bayerischer Rundfunk: “It is an important requirement that we decide today that we will no longer make any more viewers in the future.
If that doesn't work at the federal level, we would do it for Bavaria alone. "
Söder justified the step on Twitter: »The high mobility when traveling to and from the hotel is currently not responsible.
Football has a great role model function.
We now have to reduce contacts everywhere. "
The still incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel and her designated successor Olaf Scholz will discuss the corona situation with the heads of government of the federal states from midday.
It already seems clear that the ghost games will be reintroduced across Germany.
"We have to cut back on recreational events significantly," said the Executive Minister of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, in the ZDF morning magazine: "Given the dramatic situation in the country, it is no longer justifiable that there were still big Bundesliga games with tens of thousands of visitors last weekend."
Greens boss Robert Habeck expressed himself in a similar way.
»The Bundesliga doesn't have to play in full stadiums.
That is already possible now and could have been forbidden last weekend, "said Habeck:" It was a mistake that the Bundesliga played in full stadiums last weekend.
That is absolutely clear, that should have been stopped. "
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