TSV 1860: Endurance test against Rostock - the last game with spectators for a long time
Created: 01/07/2022Updated: 01/07/2022, 8:54 am
From: Uli Kellner
Team photo instead of fan evening: The lion fans who traveled along received a visual Belek souvenir as a treat - before Thursday training, the players lined up for a photo together.
The fan evening originally scheduled for Thursday evening was canceled in order to minimize the dangers of possible corona infections © Stefan Matzke / sampics
Eight days before the league restart against contractions, the Lions contest their only test of winter preparation: At 2.30 p.m. CET, it is in Belek against Rostock.
Belek
- In the Munich winter, he gets up in the middle of the night to clear sidewalks of snow. In Belek it was a completely different natural event that tore the cleaning contractor Hans Sitzberger out of his springs: an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1, measured on Wednesday at 5.21 a.m. local time. "And at first I thought I was dreaming," said the Vice President with a smile at tz.
Was that already the jolt the Lions need to start from tenth place in the direction of promotion places in the second half of the season? What the Belek days have brought will be shown for the first time this Friday - during the only test of the January preparation. The opponent is Hansa Rostock (2.30 p.m. CET, live on Löwen-TV). "I expect a good game - a very good game," said coach Michael Köllner, excitedly.
TSV 1860 expects financial losses due to ghost games
It is already clear that the endurance test against the second division team will be followed by more spectators than will be allowed against Wehen Wiesbaden in eight days.
It will be exactly zero when the 3rd division starts again, at least 130 today in Belek.
Like the 80 lion fans who traveled with them, the 50 from Rostock also had to give their passport numbers - owing to the corona situation in the high-risk area of Turkey.
Most of them don't care - they enjoy their stay in the five-star resort and also showed understanding for the cancellation of the fan evening.
As a consolation there was a photo with her blue idols - and maybe a victory today?
Already clear: It will be the last game with spectators for a long time.
Sports director Günther Gorenzel expects ghost games in the next few weeks and months.
“This is madness for the entire sport of football,” he says, “also economically.
This is massive damage for the clubs, which will be reflected everywhere in terms of budget.
Everyone believed that we could get through the winter with vaccinations.
Unfortunately a fallacy.
It's sad that it has come to that again. "