Game cancellations, team quarantine - and the competition is pulling away

Created: 2022-01-23Updated: 2022-01-23 5:51 PM

By: Uli Kellner

Dismantling instead of kick-off: A forklift collects utensils after the small city duel on Saturday was canceled.

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Corona frustration at 1860: According to the lions, the wave of infections goes back to mandatory appointments with cup opponents KSC.

Bitter: The FCK game is also cancelled.

Keep your distance, reduce contacts – the lions also adhered to some of the basic rules of the pandemic when dealing with the media on Sunday.

All press inquiries regarding the short-term cancellation of the third division duel with Türkgücü on Saturday were answered negatively.

Sports manager Günther Gorenzel would not comment on the outbreak on Grünwalder Straße before Monday afternoon, the press office said on request.

Enlighten, provide background, give perspectives?

AHA needs of the public, which the third division team from Giesing considered superfluous on Sunday.

 According to the last instruction from the health department, a large part of the team is now in quarantine.

This group consists of the infected - as well as the people who are considered contact persons according to current regulations.

Message from TSV 1860 on Saturday evening.

So it initially stayed with the information that was sent to the editors by circular email on Saturday at 12.36 p.m., just under an hour and a half before the planned kick-off in the Olympic Stadium - and was updated in the evening by press spokesman Rainer Kmeth.

The update from Saturday evening at 5:52 p.m. literally said: “According to the last instruction from the health department, a large part of the team is now in quarantine.

This group consists of the infected – as well as the people who are considered contact persons according to current regulations. ”As far as the names and the exact number of those affected are concerned, the association referred to data protection in previous cases.

The lions confirmed in the press release that the DFB Cup game against Karlsruhe on Tuesday evening was decisive for the further development - for a development that coach Michael Köllner seemed to foresee on Friday when he looked at 16 positive PCR tests at KSC said, "I hope the cup will pass from us."

Infected at doping control and press conference?

He isn't, as it turned out less than 24 hours later when the team had already gathered on Grünwalder Strasse. "The positive cases occurred with members of the Löwen team who were in closed rooms with players and officials of the KSC as part of the doping control and other joint mandatory appointments," the official statement said. The DFB therefore canceled the city duel at short notice. And, no big surprise: The home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern on Tuesday was also canceled yesterday.

According to information from Münchner Merkur and tz, 1860 is amazed at how it was possible for KSC to run up in Munich, having previously isolated only individual team members who had tested positive - only to call in sick almost as a squad the next day (including staff, it should even be 20 have given positive tests, despite a supposed 100% vaccination rate). What Gorenzel thinks about the force of the KSC wave becomes clear when one wording says: "From the point of view of the lions, this is all the more annoying because the entire team has adhered to an internally defined, meticulous hygiene concept for the last two years , which meant that several players or members of the coaching and functional team were never affected by corona infections at the same time.

There are no catch-up dates for the canceled games yet, and it is also unclear when the lions will be able to end their team quarantine and go back to the training ground.

The ball is in the health department's hands.

Bitter for 1860: Due to the mandatory break and the results of some rivals, the gap in third place has increased to seven points.