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Retired Uli Hoeness starts again. In the corona crisis, the former president of Bavaria comes back with clear words and speaks of “charlatanism”.
It has become quiet around Uli Hoeness in the past weeks and months, but in one of the greatest football crises the former speaker is back. The FC Bayern Munich Honorary President found the clearest words so far in the discussion about how things will continue until the beginning of April after the game is suspended.
«We finally have to face reality. We have to wait four weeks, drive everything to zero. Maybe we’ll have to stop playing football in October. Nobody knows that, ”says the 68-year-old on Sunday in the Sport1 program“ Doppelpass ”, worried about the further spread of the corona virus.
In view of the new reports of rising infection numbers, he considers all games of thought when the game could be resumed prematurely: «I find it charlatanistic to say today what will happen in four weeks. We have to give the scientists time to find the serum, to find the therapeutic. Everything else is a brawl. »
Until then, “every citizen around the world had to work in a disciplined manner” to get the problem under control. «There is no manual to look up for this situation. We all have to learn to deal with this situation. » Only when the number of infected people decreases can one think about when to play football again.
“It makes no sense to host the EM”
Similar to Hoeness, Rudi Völler also expressed the opinion in the special program for the 1000th anniversary of the “double pass” that the Bundesliga must be the focus when dealing with the crisis. «The most important thing for football is clearly the national league. That will also be the most important thing tomorrow at the meeting (DFL crisis meeting scheduled for Monday – Red.). How can the national league continue to play, continue to exist? The rest, the Europa League, the Champions League, are behind. And the European Championship is at the very back, »says the sports director of Bayer Leverkusen.
Hoeness, who retired from the management team at FC Bayern in November, is even clearer: “It makes no sense to play the European Championship.”
Unlike the Swiss Super League, which will definitely take a break until the end of April, the Bundesliga should continue in just under three weeks. Völler is not really optimistic that Bayer Leverkusen will play against Wolfsburg on April 4. “It is perhaps unrealistic at the moment that the game will take place,” says the 59-year-old world champion from 1990. A quick return to normalcy is not to be expected after the break anyway. “I think it’s clear to everyone that we’ll have ghost games again in the beginning, whether in three or six weeks.”
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