Bundesliga: green light to resume



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Deputy Foreign Minister and Sports Minister Werner Kogler and his colleague from the Ecological Party and Health Minister Rudolf Anschober announced Tuesday the corresponding ordinance on Wednesday to resume training of the team in the outdoor area. According to Anschober, the opening of training places is the next measure of “safe and gradual opening to everyday life”.

The resumption of the game in the Bundesliga is scheduled for early June. The remaining ten rounds plus the three Europa League games will be completed in late July, practically exclusively in English weeks.

Unarmed quarantine rules

The crux of the matter was the question of what happens in the case of a positive coronavirus test. Here the Ministry of Health met with the league: only the person in question should be quarantined. According to Bundesliga manager Christian Ebenbauer, everyone else in the respective club is “encouraged to stay home.” You can, you can, and you should go to training sessions and games. “

Christian Ebenbauer

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League President Christian Ebenbauer Wants to “Challenge” the Corona Virus

“Updating” the team doctor

Close-knit tests aim to rule out additional infections or at least contain them to the point that the game can continue. Before the first team training, all players, i.e. players and coaches, must undergo PCR testing. “They can then move, train and play freely in their environment, but they are encouraged to minimize their social contacts,” said Ebenbauer.

A “health journal” is also planned. This includes, among other things, the daily measurement of fever. “We have created the framework to challenge the virus,” said Ebenbauer. The league board emphasized that the restart of the championship will be accompanied by a scientific study. “This provides you with data that can help the general public.” Upper house associations will discuss the additional procedure and exact schedule at a club conference on Wednesday.

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“The team doctor has an improvement in this situation,” Anschober said with a view of the Bundesliga. The club’s doctors now have additional authority and “a special responsibility towards society.” The individual player also has to endure this. “That this goes well, I would also like this as a football fan, it also depends on the behavior of each player.”

Windtner and Stöger confident

Like the Bundesliga council, Austrian sports director Peter Stöger, a member of a Bundesliga task force, was pleased with the decisions announced on Tuesday. “For us it is clear that we have a great responsibility that we assume with this concept. We could have a pioneering role and we will do it justice, “promised the former team player.

ÖFB President Leo Windtner was also optimistic about the future, praised the cooperation between all involved and spoke of an “efficient double pass with ministers and ladies and gentlemen of the civil service”.

Decisions made for the Bundesliga as the “flagship of club soccer in Austria” (Windtner) should point the way for grassroots soccer and other team sports. “This could be used to develop a role model that can also be used for other sports and social areas,” said Upper Austrian.

    ÖFB President Leo Windtner

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ÖFB President Leo Windtner emphasized good cooperation between all involved

The ÖFB team on standby

According to Windtner, around 2,200 clubs and 300,000 players have registered with ÖFB as the largest sports association in the country; all of them can expect a return soon. A few weeks ago, all leagues in the top two divisions had been canceled. “We will do everything possible so that the championships can start again in the fall. Because if there is an even bigger hole between games, then we would have to talk about a true “crown hole,” Windtner emphasized.

According to the head of the association, it cannot be estimated how long the ÖFB national team remains in the waiting position. UEFA has currently confirmed “a triple header in September”, “but there is no presumptive timetable for the fall.” More information is expected in June. The last international match so far ended on November 19 last year in the European Championship standings with a 0: 1 in Riga against Latvia.

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