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What a disgrace for football! What is currently happening in the Bavarian Regional League is turning the competition into a farce. A comment.
Title fight? Not in Bavaria. The Unterhaching game association confirmed on Tuesday as second in the table, not wanting to get promoted to the third league at all. The first in the table, Nuremberg II, had declared the same early on. The third party that laughs in the truest sense of the word: the Würzburger Kickers.
Oath of disclosure the Bavarian Regional League
Since the Haching declaration of waiver, you have been confirmed as a participant in the promotion games. And that without any sporting competition, because being among the first – attention! – With seven teams in the table, the Kickers are the only ones who want to be promoted. What an oath of revelation from a league whose right to exist has been even more doubted since this farce!
Briefly to classify: This is not about the decision of the Unterhaching game association or the sporting performance of the Würzburger Kickers. They don’t have to apologize for playing almost exclusively against teams with no professional ambitions.
Author Alexander Küpper regularly reports on the regional league and has closely followed the promotion initiative since it started
Bavarian Football Association as a brake on the reform movement
And of course this isn’t about ridiculing and scorning small clubs in Bavaria that do a lot within their means and have fought their way into the fourth division through hard work. This deserves the greatest respect without any compromises. And yet we have to discuss the bigger picture. And especially and clearly also about the Bavarian Football Association.
It shows impressive chutzpah that, given the situation in your own league, you continue to present yourself as the biggest brake on the nationwide reform process. Shortly after a DFB working group had spent months working on two reform models, the BFV suddenly came along a new proposal around the corner and announced that he wanted to form a working group for this purpose. Please what? A regional working group follows a nationwide one? The blatant breach of logic is obvious.
BFV President irritates with statements
An appearance by BFV President Christoph Kern on Bayerischer Rundfunk also caused increasingly incredulous looks. In order to maintain its own regional league, he suggested increasing or even splitting up the third league. Quote: “We want to and we will discuss it!” Grotesque mind games that are not productive. Christoph Kern also knows this. He is tactical, and his tactics are obvious. Brake, block, throw smoke candles, play for time.
Time that ambitious clubs don’t have. If in the end a champion falls by the wayside while a third-placed player advances, that cannot be accepted. If a local patriotic official puts the interests of his amateur clubs above the well-being of football instead of working constructively on a solution that is acceptable to everyone, then the moral compass needs to be readjusted. In this case, the DFB and DFL should recommend a new compass model to Christoph Kern.
