The ex-Bremen coach was proven that he had falsified his vaccination card. Werder then separated from his coach. Now the DFB has also imposed a penalty.
Markus Beginning, the former coach of the second division team Werder Bremen, is not allowed to work as a coach for a year and has to pay a fine of 20,000 euros. The professional ban from the beginning applies retrospectively from November 20th.
His former assistant coach Florian Junge was suspended for ten months and fined 3,000 euros. The DFB announced this on Wednesday.
“Through their actions, Markus Beginning and Florian Junge have violated the role model function as coaches to a considerable extent,” said Hans E. Lorenz, chairman of the DFB sports court: “In view of the confessions they have made, however, it is justified to extend part of the ban Suspend probation to give them the opportunity to re-engage for the 2022/2023 season.” At the beginning, the ban will be suspended from June 10th until June 30th, 2023, at Jung from June 1st.
Beginning recently admitted to having deceived with a fake vaccination certificate. “He admitted to having presented a false vaccination certificate,” said Bremen’s chief public prosecutor, Frank Passade, to the SID in early January. In the course of the affair, he resigned in Bremen at the beginning of November. His successor was Ole Werner.
In the beginning, Werder and the health department deceived
According to a DFB announcement, in late summer 2021, the Beginning and Young “each obtained a fake vaccination card that incorrectly identified them as ‘double vaccinated against the corona virus'”. They then presented this to Werder, “so that from early autumn they no longer took part in the tests prescribed by Werder Bremen in the DFB/DFL hygiene concept. In addition, both also presented the counterfeit vaccination card to the Bremen health department in order to avoid contact as a result of the contact to withdraw from the legally required quarantine with the Bremen player Marco Friedl, who was suffering from Corona at the time.