2nd league
While the tipico Bundesliga is preparing to start the championship this week by starting training, the Hpybet 2. Liga is standing still. In an open letter, the players’ representatives of the 2nd league now demand equal treatment and, consequently, a restart of the season.
04/20/2020 07/14
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The twelve Bundesliga clubs and second division Austria Lustenau are currently allowed to start training in small groups as cup finalists. The goal is to end the Bundesliga season with ghost games and also to host the ÖFB Cup final. The near future of the second division, however, is open.
The player presidium of the 2nd league in the Association of Footballers (VdF) – Martin Grasegger, Thomas Reifeltshammer and Alexander Joppich – therefore addressed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), Vice Chancellor and Minister of Sport Werner Kogler, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (both Greens) on Monday. as well as Bundesliga CEO Christian Ebenbauer.
Players from 13 clubs for recovery
“As players’ representatives, we criticize the way government officials deal with the professionals in our league and urge the Bundesliga not to accept this unequal treatment and to accept it without comment,” the letter said.
The player representatives point out that 80 percent of the players are professional footballers and in a survey players from 13 of the 16 clubs had voted in favor of continuing the championship. “From our point of view, there should be no difference between the tipico Bundesliga and the HPpybet 2nd division on the part of the government and the Bundesliga for us professional players, so the measures taken must be the same,” wrote the players.
You currently see “an inadmissible disadvantage for each individual player, which also has a very negative impact on his professional development. We currently see this completely regardless of whether and which championships of the two federal leagues will be continued or completed. However, we expressly advocate that if the tipico Bundesliga is continued, the Hpybet 2. Liga will also continue, ”said the players’ representatives.
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