Status: 02/15/2021 9:38 a.m.
In the corona pandemic, handball players are forced to hunt for appointments in an unprecedented manner. Flensburg’s coach Maik Machulla still wants to bring the season to an end. Kiel’s team doctor says that medically this is hardly justifiable.
Cancellations galore, entire teams in corona quarantine and players at the limit. But the handball Bundesliga (HBL) works tirelessly to To bring the season to an end – according to plan and without resistance from the financially troubled industry. And without a plan B in case all else fails. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the hunted down dates at least scratches the sporting value and possibly endangers the health of handball players if national players like the Kiel “Handball Player of the Year 2020”, Hendrik Pekeler, are supposed to play 43 games within 18 weeks.
Coach’s duty
“We have to find creative solutions,” says Maik Machulla on NDR. The trainer of the SG Flensburg-Handewitt not only wants to rant about the injustice of the deadline stress, but also takes himself and his colleagues to account. “We coaches too all have to be ready to allow higher loads for our players.” The 44-year-old believes that there is no alternative to playing the season as planned. “We want to choose a champion in terms of sport, allocate the EC places and also determine the relegated. We have to work on that.”
Design the game plan intelligently
The league still has to have a plan B ready for emergencies, according to the Greifswald native, who was promoted to head coach after five years as co-2017. Even if league boss Uwe Schwenker recently said after a video switch with all clubs that it had not even been discussed. Machulla: “I fear that the HBL will get completely out of rhythm and at some point everything will be worthless.”
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