Söder to the Fans in the stadium: a Devastating signal for the company

The export from Bavaria was the hope of a speedy Fan-return, in the stages of finally sink to a Minimum – the meeting of the Minister of health had not even started. A the Start of the Bundesliga with spectators, he could not imagine, said Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder in front of the assembled press on Monday and spoke of a "devastating signal for the company". And with his opinion of the CSU as state Chairman is certainly not alone, the plans of the football for the planned Restart before the Fans got out of politics and medicine, and fierce against the wind.

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The professional football, so put it to the Chairman of the in the late afternoon to the conference, the Berlin health Senator Dilek Kalayci, stand not on the priority list "at the top". You do not have to take a decision on the concept of the German football League (DFL). Political popularity of football got after all from Saxony. Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), pleaded via ARD midday magazine to give the club the Chance to "test this thing". It was important to go now at this point, a step forward.

another shot across the bow, it is set by the medical Association "Marburger Bund", the urgently warned of a Fan returning to the stadiums. "The risk of Mass infections would be real. If we are unlucky, sits a super-spreader among the Fans, and the Virus spreads like wildfire," said the Chairman Susanne Johna of the "New osnabrück newspaper". After all, someone could have "at all, no complaints, but still his throat is already full of viruses. And then, when screaming and cheering, it can go as quick as a flash“.

And so the doubts grow more and more, that the League actually starts, as desired, in mid-September before a live audience in the new season. In the face of rising Corona of infection, the fear of a "second wave" pay big. At the end of may to large. The 36 clubs of the Bundesliga and the second League had agreed last Tuesday on a concept for the return of the spectators in the Corona of a pandemic. The Plan does not provide for standing places and no alcohol until the end of October, a waiver of the guests, fans until the end of the year, as well as personalized Tickets.

the aspirations of The DFL were understandable, said doctors Association boss Johna now: "But that their concept of contagion prevented, I think, is unrealistic." So you could imagine that Fans of stay with a goal of their team on their Seats. "Since it is in the poor and not think of Corona," said Johna: "Anything else would be downright inhumane."