Fans seem to have heard the Bavarian Prime Minister’s words of warning.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the signs, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

“My stomach contracts when I think of the Super Cup. Budapest is a risky place, you have to be very careful “

– Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said earlier this week, who asked Bayern Munich fans not to travel to Hungary for his team’s match against Sevilla. Earlier, the head coach of the winning Champions League team, Hansi Flick, also spoke about his disagreement with the match.

According to previous news, almost 2,100 Bayern-Drukkers have applied for tickets, out of the 3,000 quota reserved for them. Free europe However, it is clear from his article that fans heard Söder’s words of warning and many of them canceled the Budapest tour.

German TVs are also staying away
Although planned, German Sky and DAZN will not send staff to the Super Cup match in Budapest, he writes Kicker. Both the channel and the streaming service provider will broadcast the game live, but their commentators and experts will work from their studios in Germany. It was then decided that the German government had previously declared Hungary a particularly dangerous area for the coronavirus epidemic.

According to the newspaper, Bayern Munich’s biggest fan club, FC Bayern Munich Fanclub Nabburg / Oberpfalz, canceled the entire trip after a statement from the Bavarian Prime Minister. President Bernd Hofmann said he does not approve of the Super Cup being held in Budapest and in front of the spectators. The most important thing, he said, is the health and safety of the fans.

The press of Club Nr. 12, an association of fan clubs in the Südkurve section of the Allianz Arena, said A free EuropeDue to the epidemic situation and the reduction in the maximum number of spectators at the venue, the Puskás Arena, it was decided not to organize a bus or joint flight to the match.

Alexander Fischer confirmed that several people had arranged a private bus to Budapest, but said that most canceled the trip earlier this week, so the flight would not start either.

Fischer knows that up to 1,300 German fans will arrive in Budapest for Thursday’s match after some 900 of the 2,100 requested tickets were canceled on Monday and Tuesday.

At Club Nr. 12, according to the newspaper, they do not understand why the European Football Association insists on holding the Super Cup now that the infection is also spreading strongly in Hungary. Mainly not because the match, originally scheduled for August 12 in Porto, was postponed and sold to Budapest with reference to the deteriorating epidemic situation.

They are not happy in Porto

According to a report by German Kicker on Tuesday, the mayor of Porto is demanding a response from UEFA in a letter explaining why they have been deprived of the right to settle, which was granted to them in spring 2018. Rui Moreira indicated in the meeting of the city council that if it does not receive an adequate explanation, it will demand for the decision of the European association.

According to the article, the mayor feels that it was not the epidemic that was the real reason for the change of location, but the fact that the final of the second round of the BL was finally held in an unusual, also Portuguese, city of Lisbon. “They could have said that once the BL was completed in Lisbon, they didn’t want the Super Cup to be in the same country,” Moreira smoked.

MLSZ promises safe operation

The mayor did not allow spectators to enter
“If I had the legal opportunity to decide on this issue, the match would certainly take place behind closed doors. But I have no rights, so the responsibility also falls on those who have it. In this situation, I instructed BKK to use vehicles with maximum capacity in the vicinity of the Puskás Ferenc Stadium, especially metro line 2, to avoid congestion in public transport, ”said Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest, when asked about Népszava. On Tuesday, Csaba Horváth, the mayor of Zugló, asked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to decide that the match would be held behind closed doors.

Thanks to strict precautions, the Puskás Arena will be a safer place than anywhere else in the country or even across Europe at the time of Thursday’s game for the European Super Cup, the Hungarian Football Association (MLSZ) said.

MLSZ emphasized that the experience of Hungarian championship matches held in front of spectators for several months does not show that it is particularly risky to visit outdoor sporting events. And about drug addicts who come from abroad, it was written that “after such a strict health control, they can enter the Puskás Arena that any encounter with them does not represent an additional risk. Members of the support field of the two teams can watch the game separately, they will not meet the Hungarian fans.

At the same time, the MLSZ drew fans’ attention to the fact that the preparations that have been underway for several weeks can only be successful if sanitary regulations are observed to the maximum.

Human experiment

This will be the first match in the European Union (UEFA) competition system to which spectators will be admitted since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. The organization confirmed on Tuesday that, based on the experience of this match, it will decide whether the measures ordered by the coronavirus epidemic, including those related to close clashes of goalkeepers, can be modified by the end of the year.

At the moment there will be no spectators at UEFA-sponsored matches, Champions League and Europa League playoffs, and Nations League meetings.

The game will be played on Thursday night starting at 9 pm at the Puskás Arena. The facility can be filled to 30 percent of its capacity, which means that there can be approximately 20,000 spectators at the match.



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