BERLIN (AP) – Players return to the Bundesliga after their foreign project and bring with them the coronavirus.
Hoffenheim faced Borussia Dortmund on Saturday without Andrej Kramaric and Kasim Adams after a positive following the team’s matches with Croatia and Ghana, respectively. The defense of the Czech Republic Pavel Kaderabek quarantined by the result of a circle of family members.
Hoffenheim football director Alexander Rosen said after the 1-0 defeat that clubs deserve to let players go on missions abroad.
“Clubs pay for players and pictures with everyone to make sure the processes run properly,” Rosen said. “And it gives the impression that national associations don’t care. “
Dortmund had to dispense with defenseman Manuel Akanji after positive while on duty for Switzerland.
“When you look at the emerging numbers, you have to wonder if it makes sense to prevent (the players from leaving) for the next break,” Leipzig sporting director Markus Krosche said after his team’s 2-0 win in Augsburg. It must be a transparent direction on the part of FIFA on how this is happening, especially in risky spaces. “
Leipzig did not have Amadou Haidara, a midfielder who had tested positive after assisting Mali in Ghana’s 3-0 defeat in a friendly in Turkey, and Hertha Berlin disappointed over Mattéo Guendouzi’s return from the French under-21 team with the virus.
“The signing is already very difficult,” said Hertha coach Bruno Labbadia. “Now is the worst case. “
Other cases raise fears that football will stop, as Germany appears to be facing a momentary wave of viruses. The country’s disease centers reported 7,830 new cases on Saturday in the last 24 hours, a record for the third consecutive day. .
The timing of departmental club Nuremberg reported two positive cases on Wednesday: the adjustment between Osnabrick and Darmstadt was postponed to the top of the quarantined home team for 14 days after two of its players tested positive for COVID-19.
Union Berlin striker Max Kruse has been criticized for posting a video on Instagram in which he appears going to a shisha bar with friends. Berlin has some of the viral infection rates in Germany.
“He wasn’t Max’s smartest, himself,” his Union teammate Marvin Friedrich said after the team’s 1-1 draw at Schalke on Sunday.
Dortmund coach Lucien Favre assumes there will be more instances among the players and warned that the league could be suspended again. There will be no football for two months when the pandemic began in March.
“We have to keep looking to play as long as possible,” Favre said On Saturday, adding that sometimes that was bad for the situation.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested to others that they stop the spread of the virus by avoiding unnecessarily and staying at home whenever possible.
The Champions League starts on Tuesday with flights across the continent.
Dortmund will make a stopover in Lazio for their first Champions League match in Rome. Bayern Munich have matches at Lokomotiv Moscow and Salzburg, Borussia Monchengladbach in Inter Milan and Shakhtar Donetsk, and Leipzig to Manchester United before the next foreign break in November.
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Dortmund’s executive leader, Hans-Joachim Watzke, criticized Saturday for what he called “populist football. “
Most Bundesliga matches were played without fans or with very few fans to provide this weekend, and it turns out that the stage will remain for some time. Clubs are already in trouble due to the loss of profits from the sale of price tickets.
“This has to go on, ” said Watzke to ZDF. ” At least we want those ghost games (no fans). If we don’t have one either, it’ll be very tight. “
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