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Riedorf played with the minimum number of players to achieve social distancing during the match
A German soccer team lost a match to a local rival team with 37 unanswered goals after playing with just seven players, in order to achieve social distancing and for fear of contracting the Coronavirus.
The “Riedorf” team played with the minimum number of players on Sunday due to contact with players from the opposing team, “SV Heldenstedt”, in a previous match with a person who had tested positive for the Corona virus.
Despite negative test results on the team’s players, the Reporve club said conditions were not safe.
Had Repurve not played, he would have faced a € 200 fine.
The club had asked for the match to be postponed, but the local association refused.
Ribdorff said his players did not feel safe because the game was timed and it had not been 14 days since the Holdenstedt players had contact with the person who tested positive.
Holdenstedt did not play the match with the first team, but pressed for his second team.
At the start of the match, a Ribdorf player left the field and passed the ball to a player from the opposing team, then the Ribdorf players moved away from the midfield.
“Holdenstedt’s players didn’t get it. But we didn’t want to risk anything,” Rippdorf co-president Patrick Resto said in an interview with ESPN.
He added that his players “did not go into direct confrontations, and followed the rules of social distancing, with a distance of two meters between themselves and the Holdenstedt players.”
Holdenstedt did not back down, scoring 37 goals, averaging one every two to three minutes.
“There was absolutely no reason not to play this game,” said Florian Scherwater, Holdenstedt’s coach.
