DHe was promoted by the national chief to ban unvaccinated football players from participating in the game, which brought professionals like this Joshua Kimich And their club feels even more distressed. In an emotional debate about the role model effect of football in the coronavirus pandemic, the prime ministers’ plan to study the 2-G rule for the football industry includes new explosives. The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrick Wooster, said the state leaders agreed “soon”. “We must now check whether we can implement this,” however, the CDU politician added.
According to regulations, professional athletes can be shut out if they are neither vaccinated nor recovered from the coronavirus infection. The legal safety of this regulation may become the subject of intense negotiations. For the national team owner, the audience in the stands should also be applicable to football players. Obviously, the content should also be applicable. Many venues have forced the use of 2G on weekends.
Merkel: “This is the most important thing now”
Executive principal Angela Merkel However, (CDU) mentioned the corona regulations that were just passed by the Bundestag on Thursday. “Usually the world of work is 3G,” said the outgoing head of government. According to this, people who test negative for the virus can enter the workplace even if they have not been vaccinated. For football players, this workplace is the stadium on the match day. “Now it depends on whether it is the world of work or the world of leisure,” Merkel said.
SPD candidate for prime minister Olaf Schultz It also leaves room for stricter rules in countries/regions that may make unvaccinated professional athletes uncomfortable. Indeed, 3-G rules were provided for the staff during the event. However, in a severe corona situation, the federal states may handle the situation in different ways. “This is a decision that must be made on the spot,” Scholz said. Compared with the new “Infection Protection Law”, this is a “more far-reaching action catalog.”
If national leaders really enact legal safety regulations for the 2G of football professionals, this will be close to compulsory vaccination of football players. Shortly before the political summit, alliance boss Christian Seifert has called for “practical solutions and implementable concepts.” “In the past twelve months, we have heard enough ideas,” said the DFL managing director of the television broadcaster Bild.
After Bayern star Kimmich admitted that he did not vaccinate because he was worried about the long-term consequences, the vaccination debate has been going on in football for several weeks. According to the Bild newspaper, a group of doctors around Tim Meyer, the chief physician of the German Football Association, called in a letter: “We urge those who have not been vaccinated inside or outside football to consider vaccination and obtain serious information about it. Information. Vaccination is the key to ending the pandemic quickly, and no other measures can replace it.”
In the 36 clubs in the A and B league, almost 10% of the players should not be vaccinated. Handball, basketball or ice hockey professionals may also be affected by the 2-G rule. However, the basketball league has a 99% vaccination rate among players given at the beginning of the season.
