In times of the corona crisis, two things are the greatest enemies of sport: helplessness and uncertainty.
“Sport is not the master of the procedure,” said SPORT1Expert Marcel Reif at CHECK24 double pass. Fortunately, these are the ones who deal with the virus medically.
For this reason, not only in basketball and ice hockey clubs, like many other companies in the Federal Republic, fear for their existence and are preparing for a struggle for bare survival. There is also a lot at stake in financially stronger football.
“I think it is important that we stop now and that everyone thinks about what’s going on in the world right now,” urged Uli Hoeneß, who is in the CHECK24 double pass had switched on. “At the moment we all have to learn to be patient.”
The message from the long-time president of FC Bayern is clear: there are now more important things than football. That may be true, but the sport faces several horror scenarios if nothing is done.
Football has to master a difficult balancing act – and the next few days will be decisive.
770 million euros are available
The 36 clubs of the first and second Bundesliga meet on Monday for the crisis meeting at Frankfurt Airport. It is about no less than 770 million euros, which are made up of TV marketing, sponsorship and stadium income.
If the season cannot be played to the end, this astronomical sum is at disposition and every fourth DFL club is facing bankruptcy.
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“The most important thing for football is clearly the national league,” said Rudi Völler at a switch in the CHECK24 double pass clear. “How can the national league continue to play, continue to exist?”
A schedule is needed as early as possible, but how should it be?
According to information from Friends 11 On Monday, clubs should be proposed to postpone all games scheduled until Easter. In addition to the two upcoming games, the 28th and 29th matchday would also be affected, and the Bundesliga would start again on April 17 at the earliest.
“For me it is unrealistic that we can play in April. I think the beginning or middle of May is realistic,” Rainer Calmund said in the CHECK24 double pass. Hoeneß even went a lot further: “I find charlatanism to say today what to do in four weeks. We all have to downshift now. Maybe it won’t be played until October, nobody knows that.”
Dr. Werner Bartens, Head of Editorial Knowledge at Süddeutsche Zeitung has worked extensively on the spread of the corona virus – and the doctor is “totally skeptical that something can happen again. I think that something can only happen again in May.”
The tenor: It is hardly conceivable that the Bundesliga season will end on schedule.
The European Championship “makes no sense”
This is one of the reasons why a large number of fans and experts at least agree on one thing: the European Championship, which is supposed to start on June 12, must be postponed.
The national leagues should have priority, followed by the Champions League and Europa League – “and the European Championship comes at the very back,” said Völler, and Reif added: “If the European Championship falls behind, then it just falls behind.”
“It makes no sense at all to play the European Championship,” said Hoeneß even more clearly here.
This insight has apparently also matured at UEFA, because: after SPORT1– The European Football Association wants to propose to the participating nations at a video conference on Tuesday that the EM will be postponed.
In favor of the national leagues, which would then have more time to catch up on their outstanding games. The same applies to the European competitions.
DFL, UEFA and FIFA have to think about something
“The DFL has to think about it a bit,” said the former moderator of the CHECK24 double pass, Rudi Brückner, regarding the schedule and brought a first idea into play at the Hilton Hotel at Munich Airport: “Maybe playoffs can be played?”
Such a solution appears to be a conceivable scenario because time has to be saved. This also applies to the Champions League and the Europa League. According to a report by L’Équipe UEFA has long been considering a final eight from the quarter-finals or a final four from the semi-finals.
The European Championship would then probably take place in the summer of 2021. How SPORT1 learned from associations, that would be the preferred solution of UEFA, a host next winter is hardly conceivable in the tight schedule of the national leagues.
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The problem: In the summer of 2021, the Club World Cup, which was pumped up by FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, is supposed to take place. Of all places in China, where Wuhan is also supposed to be a venue, the epicenter of the corona virus.
There will be heated debates at DFL, UEFA and FIFA next week – and possibly far beyond. A solution seems only possible if Infantino should sacrifice its club World Cup.
But even then the biggest problem remains, which obviously concerns all football fans: Nobody knows when to think about regular game play again.
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