Heiko Herrlich, the new coach of FC Augsburg, will not sit on the bench as a coach on Saturday. With a small purchase, he violated the quarantine rules.
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Not all of the hygiene measures in the Bundesliga still seem to have been internalized. Of all things, Augsburg’s new head coach Heiko Herrlich purchases toothpaste and skin cream during the hotel quarantine – with consequences. The first consequence: His team will not look after Saturday (3:30 p.m.) in the Bundesliga soccer game against VfL Wolfsburg.
The 48-year-old himself reported on his trip in a video press conference on Thursday: “I have no toothpaste, is going out and no skin cream, and then I went to a supermarket with my tracksuit near.” However, the DFL concept to continue playing in the Corona crisis stipulates that “at least the last 7 days before the start of the season must be quarantined as a training camp”, “whereby the regular testing is continued”. There, players and coaches are to be isolated and protected against infection with the virus.
Curiously, Herrlich had also asked the video shop for understanding in the event of certain violations of the Bundesliga professionals against hygiene rules. With the restart this weekend, the players should also avoid clapping and hugs while cheering, and they should also avoid spitting. If by mistake “out of emotion, passion and joy” is violated, “then you shouldn’t blame the player,” said the former international. Herrlich warned against publicly condemning such possible violations: “If we then start to control it and show it in the media and denounce it, we will be at a dead end.”
Later in the evening, the trainer apologized for his own shopping: “I made a mistake by leaving the hotel. Even though I have followed all hygiene measures both when leaving the hotel and otherwise, I cannot do this undone make “, the coach is quoted in the evening in a message from FC Augsburg. Wonderful: “In this situation, I was not able to act as a role model for my team and the public.”
He would stand by his mistake and “due to this misconduct, will not lead the training tomorrow and will not coach the team on Saturday against Wolfsburg”. Further corona tests will be carried out in the next few days, the FCA said. After two negative test results, Heiko Herrlich will resume training at FC Augsburg.
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