In view of the massive increase in the number of infections, the federal and state governments had ruled out easing the current corona measures on Monday. Thus, in the professional leagues in football, handball, basketball or ice hockey, it largely remains with ghost games or games with extremely reduced spectator numbers. Only the federal state of Bavaria embarked on a special path on Tuesday (01/25/2022), which in the future will again be up to 10,000 fans allowed in the stadiums.
Watzke gets things rolling
However, the unyielding stance of the Berlin traffic light coalition on this matter has meanwhile provoked massive resistance in professional sport – especially among clubs from the German professional football leagues. Borussia Dortmund’s managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke got the ball rolling after the decisions of the Prime Ministers’ Conference (MPK) with the words: “We will look at the decisions of the country NRW take a close look and check whether we can have them checked in an urgent procedure.” That means you will try to take legal action against it.
Also RB CEO for legal steps
Also RB Leipzig’s CEO Oliver Mintzlaff is now calling for legal action against the Corona policy. “I think Aki Watzke’s move is absolutely right, and if we don’t find a quick solution, we’ll also check with other Bundesliga clubs whether and how we can take legal action.”he told the “Bild” newspaper.
Mintzlaff added: “The federal government cannot paint the world as it likes it. That ends in a zigzag course that people no longer support. I therefore call for uniform and, above all, nationwide rules, because otherwise we can’t even start can no longer orient themselves and trust in statements dwindles even more.”
Through decisions such as the different reductions in the convalescent regulation in the Bundestag and the rest of the country, the “taking people for fools”.
Wehrle: “Do they actually roll the dice?”
Alexander Wehrle, Managing Director of 1. FC Köln, would also welcome legal action: “We stand side by side with him BVB.” It is incomprehensible at all if 2,000 of the 2,100 possible spectators in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg are in a closed room and a few kilometers further in the Hamburg stadium also 2,000, because that is the limit. Wehrle angry: Who set the 2,000 in Hamburg? And who the 750 in Cologne? And who the 1,000 in Mainz? Do they actually roll dice?”
Desired different scenario
President Steffen Schneekloth from the second division soccer team Holstein Kiel also spoke out in favor of a larger number of spectators in the soccer stadiums. Although one wants to accept the political guidelines, the association would have preferred a different scenario due to the developments and scientific findings of the current Corona situation.
“Especially with a view to neighboring European leagues such as France, England or Denmark, which are now again allowing 100 percent spectators in the stadiums, at least partial admission would have been desirable.”said Schneekloth, who is also deputy spokesman for the DFL-Presidium and DFB– is a board member. Studies proved that “an increased incidence of infection does not come from the games in the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga”he stressed.
Schalke 04 expect opening perspective
Bernd Schröder, the new CEO of the second division soccer team Schalke 04, agrees: “We expect professional sport in Germany to open up by February 9 at the latest. The decision made at short notice by the Bavarian cabinet shows that a balance is possible from fighting the pandemic together and social participation in culture and sport.”
Safer than shopping
A number of representatives in professional sports are now expressing the suspicion that politicians are using sport in their corona measures. You want to show a certain toughness towards the sport, which is not justified at all, he said Manager of the German volleyball champion Berlin Volleys, Kaweh Niroomand. “In our hall, the spectators are geboostert and safer with a mask than when I go shopping or to the pharmacy”, he told the German Press Agency.
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Status: 01/25/2022, 22:06