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Because three Wels players must be quarantined, Upper Austria are participating in the Champions League in Düsseldorf with two 12-year-olds. Not participating would block the Austrians from future international competitions.
4:57 pm, December 10, 2020
Following a crown event, the SPG Walter Wels men’s table tennis team has to travel to Düsseldorf with the second team of the Champions League from Friday. This is how the only twelve-year-old talents celebrate Julian Rzihausek Y Petr Hodina an unexpected first time. You will be the youngest player in the history of competition in the Champions League.
As Wels reported, there were Adam Szudi passed a positive first team corona test. Then his teammates, the ex-Kapfenbergers, had to Andreas Levenko Y Frane Kojicas well as coaches David huber in a quarantine of ten days. If Wels did not appear in Düsseldorf, he would be excluded from all European competitions in the course of the season. In the Germany tournament, Wels will face German champion Saarbrücken, Danish club Roskilde and French leader Pontoise from Friday to Sunday.
Free school for the Champions League
Of course, the High Austrians are clearly outsiders. Rzihausek is normally used in the 2nd Bundesliga, Hodina mainly in the national league. Only Gabor boehm He has experience in the Champions League thanks to the trio of players who traveled to Düsseldorf. They were accompanied by the sports director Helmut Giglmayer. The students broke free from their schools. “Directors had to play along because they needed vacations on very short notice,” the president reported. Gerhard Demelbauer.
The premier category of table tennis will be played as a tournament in just eight days at one venue this season. For hygiene and safety reasons this takes place in a “bubble”. Players cannot leave team hotels until their club is eliminated. You must submit a negative corona test no more than 48 hours before arrival and it will be retested immediately after your arrival in Düsseldorf. The situation is unusual for Rzihausek and Hodina, Demelbauer said. But there are no worries. “You are already very mature for your age.”
Good for Wels: Due to an exception due to Corona, the fourth of the group can continue to play in the European Cup in spring. There, Upper Austria reached the preseason semi-finals before the competition was canceled in the spring. “We want to continue playing internationally. That is why we now participate in Düsseldorf,” explained Demelbauer.
