Despite the further tightened corona rules, professional sport in Germany escaped further intervention.
The soccer Bundesliga and the other top division in team sports are allowed to continue their game operations without spectators and with strict hygiene measures.
This emerges from the resolutions of the federal government and state leaders after the consultations on January 19, which provide for an extension of the lockdown to February 14 and in which professional sport is not specifically named in the case of further restrictions.
Amateur and popular sports, however, have to come to terms with a prolonged standstill again.
Previously, the Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans had warned about a critical Corona debate also about professional football, as there are many inconsistencies.
“Children are not allowed to play football while you continue in the Bundesliga as if nothing had happened – even with the mutation that is now in the game,” the CDU politician told the “Saarländischer Rundfunk”. One of the reasons for the tightened measures is the concern that highly contagious virus mutations could also spread in this country.
Lockdown in amateur sports until after Easter?
In the first lockdown last spring, professional sport had interrupted its competitions for at least a few weeks.
The competition program is currently being continued in high-level football, as well as in basketball, handball and ice hockey, even if corona cases have recently been detected again and again.
On the other hand, for millions of people involved in sports in the 90,000 German clubs, the agonizing wait for the resumption of training and competitions continues. The result is a noticeable decline in the number of members and concerns about a slowdown in voluntary work.
He hopes “that after Easter at the latest we can gradually get back into active and lively sport in all sports,” said Alfons Hörmann, President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation.
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