CThe Orona case with the national football team: just like that German Football Association (DFB) confirmed on Tuesday that a German Football Association player tested positive for the coronavirus. The health department in Wolfsburg subsequently ordered the isolation of four other professionals who were classified as contacts. National team coach Hans Frick cancelled the morning team training. It said that, instead, separate units should be provided for German players at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Autostadt.
“Not long before the last two matches of the World Cup qualifiers, this news is very painful-both for the coaching staff and for the entire team. But health comes first,” the German Football Association President Oliver Bierhoff said in a message Cited. At first, the official didn’t know which player it was. Bild-Zeitung wrote that it was Niklas Süle. According to the German Football Association, he was vaccinated and currently has no symptoms. The press conference is scheduled to be held at 1 pm. Then Bierhoff and DFB doctor Tim Meyer will comment on the incident and how it proceeded.
The national team will be held on Thursday (8:45 p.m. / at Real-time FAZ Quotes of National Teams And at RTL) their last home game in the World Cup qualifiers against Liechtenstein in Wolfsburg. Then came the match against Armenia in Yerevan on Sunday. The extent to which these games may be threatened are still open initially. Recently, in the case of a single infection, the game is no longer canceled. The national team has already qualified for the World Cup. There are 28 players in Frick’s lineup, so he currently has 23 to rely on.
Recently, Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich’s statement that he was not vaccinated has sparked a heated discussion about the role of national football players in football matches. Corona crisis It’s done. “Recently, the number of coronavirus infections nationwide has risen again. That’s why we continued to enforce hygiene and behavioral rules consistently in the last international competition this year in order to act as responsibly as possible under the current infection situation. ,” Billhoff said.
