Team quarantine: game in Halle canceled - and what will happen to the derby?

Created: 2022-01-14Updated: 2022-01-14, 11:36 p.m

By: Uli Kellner

Slowed down: Türkgücü boss Max Kothny regrets the cancellation of the game.

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Türkgücü wants to make up ground in the 3rd division with new energy and Ösi coach Heraf.

Omikron has something against it: Re-start in Halle: cancelled.

The derby is also shaking.

Corona again. Türkgücü already had a premonition on Thursday evening – there was certainty on Friday, just before it would have gone onto the motorway under normal circumstances: cancellation of the game at the start of the year at Hallesches FC – because the number of COVID cases in Munich had increased since the middle of the week . And the fact that the isolation of individual team members is not enough has a reason that begins with O. O like omicron. One of the quartet that tested positive (twice players, twice staff) was PCR tested for the highly contagious virus variant.

The basis for the cancellation is paragraph 15 of the DFB rules of the game, shared the table-16.

of the 3rd league in a press mailing.

"Due to several corona cases and the resulting quarantine situations, Türkgücü currently has fewer than 16 eligible players, which is below the minimum limit set in the paragraph." Less than 16 players?

Explanation: Unlike earlier mutants, Omikron does not have the situation where only the players directly affected are isolated.

Hence: team quarantine.

Due to several corona cases and the resulting quarantine situations, Türkgücü currently has fewer than 16 eligible players, which is below the minimum limit anchored in the paragraph.

Press release on the team quarantine at Türkgücü.

It is understandable that the Perlachers regret the cancellation of the opening game.

The anticipation was great, especially with the new coach Andreas Heraf ("It's important that it starts") - after all, not only rival 1860, but also Türkgücü had returned from Belek with renewed motivation.

"Of course, we would have liked to take the good mood from the training camp with us and convert it into points on the pitch against Hallesche FC," said managing director Max Kothny, who, however, showed understanding for the cancellation: "Health is always the priority.

So the main thing now is that everyone gets out of it unscathed.”

A date for the catch-up game has not yet been set, the derby against 1860 eight days later is not at risk as of Friday.