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Bundesliga club Cologne have come in for criticism after three people tested positive for coronavirus. But Germany’s sports minister has said he still supports the restarting of the Bundesliga this month.
Sports minister backs Bundesliga restart
German Sports Minister Horst Seehofer has lent his support to the plan to restart the Bundesliga this month.
“I consider the timetable of the DFL plausible and support a restart in May,” The Interior Minister, whose portfolio includes sports, told tabloid Bild am Sonntag. “But it is also clear for me that there can’t be any privileges for the Bundesliga.”
The German Football League (DFL) and German Football Federation (DFB) propose games behind closed doors under strict conditions and government will make a decision, possibly on Wednesday, about whether the plan can be put in to action.
But the positive results found at Cologne on Saturday (see previous entry) cast more doubt on the situation. The DFB’s chief medical officer admitted to Sport1 that the system was not perfect.
“If there are too many positive cases, this system can certainly falter,” he said.
