Corona splits the Bundesliga: from ghost school to full house

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Sold out house at the Rhenish Derby between the 1st FC Cologne and Borussia Mönchengladbach, empty ranks in Leipzig — and the first calls from politics after a suspension of the Bundesliga game.

The warding corona crisis in Germany also collects professional football with full force again and increasingly ensures unequal conditions at the 36 locations.

Bremen's Interior Senator Ulrich Mauser demanded even a break of the season because of the rapidly rising corona numbers. We expose the police officers to an unnecessarily great danger, if we send them through the middle of the fourth wave across the Republic, just to secure football matches against violent fans, said the SPD politician. This is no longer responsible for his view.

50,000 fans in Cologne at Derby

Before the Interior Minister's Conference in early December, Mauser asked his colleagues to act for action. It's high time that the German Football League interrupts the game business, says Mauser. The DFL had rejected this request, which previously presented Ages President Hedge Leonard, returned last Wednesday. In a statement, the umbrella organization referred to the coordinated line of all 36 clubs in which Corona pandemic always operate on the basis of state specifications. A self-radiated, nationwide Lockdown in the sense of a season interruption is therefore not an issue, it said.

A uniform health policy line in the federal states is currently not recognizable — and also difficult to imagine. While in Leipzig on Sunday against Bayer Leverkusen for the first time a Bundesliga ghost game has been rising for months, 50,000 fans may follow the derby against Playback on Saturday in Cologne. A corresponding request of the association was approved on Friday from the Cologne Health Office. This is possible due to the sanitary and successfully practiced hygiene and infection protection concept with 2G, said FC Managing Director Alexander Were.

Nevertheless, the commitment comes surprisingly, because after the new Corona Protection Ordinance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which came into force this week, the Cologne had to actually reduce the number of viewers — albeit only around 1500 in the standing area. The Cologne Health Office justified his decision for a full utilization that there was no higher case numbers for previous home games of the FC as generally infectious events. Not so generous is the Bochum distant about 80 kilometers away, where the climber has to leave 6000 of the 12,000 standing places free.

Corona patchwork

Otherwise, the league offers a patchwork in dealing with Corona. In Frankfurt, 40,000 spectators are allowed against the 1st FC Union Berlin, which corresponds to a capacity utilization of the stadium capacity of just under 80 percent. The Bavarian clubs from Munich, Fürth and Augsburg, on the other hand, may currently burden their stadiums only 25 percent. In Wolfsburg and Berlin it is 50 percent. To the game VfB Stuttgart against PSV Mainz 05 On Friday night, 25,000 fans were admitted — a good 40 percent of stadium capacity.

Mauser asked his counterparts from the federal states in a letter in the run-up to the Interior Ministers Conference therefore for advice and a closed approach in order not to promote the pandemic unnecessarily. We have to act on the DFL to interrupt the game operation immediately or at least for the time being only ghost games.