In live broadcast: Markus Söder sees FC Bayern at a disadvantage - and then makes people laugh

Created: 01/09/2022, 5:09 PM

By: Patrick Mayer

Guest in a double pass: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).

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Several FC Bayern Munich players will be infected with the corona virus around the New Year.

Stefan Effenberg criticizes sharply, Markus Söder has a suggestion in the TV show “Doppelpass”.

Munich - Was that still fair?

This question was asked about FC Bayern's 1: 2 (1: 2) against Borussia Mönchengladbach, because: The German Bundesliga record champions * were missing a total of 14 players, ten of them because of a positive corona test and the associated quarantine.

And so there was after the 0: 5 in the DFB Cup for Bayern against Gladbach, the next bankruptcy.

Bundesliga game despite Corona failures: Markus Söder sees FC Bayern at a disadvantage

According to the statutes of the German Football League (DFL), there were still enough players available. Bayern then filled their squad * with young players, including 16-year-old Paul Wanner, who was then used against the “foals”. They didn't want to complain too much after the messed up start in the second half of the Bundesliga *. Markus Söder (CSU), Bavaria's Prime Minister *, sees the club from his state capital at a disadvantage.

“I think that the rules for when a game is kicked off or not are from the times before Corona *. They don't really fit. I read somewhere: Long-term injuries and banned people do not count, for example, "said Söder on the TV show" Doppelpass "from

. The old rule fits “exactly for the normal situation. It doesn't fit for Corona, "said the 55-year-old. The Franconian went on to say that uniform European rules were actually needed: “It’s going haywire everywhere. (...) In England the situation is completely confused. Fans are there, but players and coaches are not. The whole thing leads to a completely distorted situation. Uniform rules are therefore needed. (...) Because of Corona, you should think about something sensible, otherwise there will simply be a distortion of competition. "

It goes haywire everywhere.

Markus Söder (CSU) on the Corona rules in football

Distortion of competition due to Corona?

FC Bayern must compete in the Bundesliga with a rump squad

In this case, an alleged distortion of competition for FC Bayern *, with Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann still having a very prominent and powerful squad on the field. To classify: According to DFL rules, banned and typically sporty injured players are "available". The question remains why - despite warnings from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the federal government not to travel unnecessarily - several players were infected at the same time. Several of these players were on vacation around New Year's Eve and New Year, some of them in distant countries. For example Manuel Neuer in the Maldives - the world champion also had a positive corona test.

“I don't understand why so many players go on vacation.

And the result is clear - and that also affects the image of the club and jeopardizes its success, ”said ex-Munich resident Stefan Effenberg, criticizing the Bayern players' winter vacation trips in a“ double pass ”.

Where could they have traveled instead, where it was closer and there were fewer crowds, was asked in the round.

In the video: Corona situation at FC Bayern relaxes - Coman, Tolisso and Richards back

“In the Bavarian Forest,” said Prime Minister Söder - and made people laugh.

Seriously, however, the country manager held out the prospect of a possible return of spectators to the Bundesliga stadiums after BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke

had requested this in an interview with

Söder now said at

: “We have to see how Omikron develops.

If the danger for the hospitals is not comparable to the Delta variant, we have to take this as a basis and see how we deal with it. ”

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