On Saturday afternoon (3:30 p.m.), when VfL bottom of the table Schalke 04 are guests, Marin Pongracic and John Anthony Brooks will form the central defense of the Wolfsburg Bundesliga club. Before that, however, they were sanctioned by VfL for misconduct, as the first division team announced in a short statement on Friday afternoon.
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The “Bild” newspaper reported that the two central defenders had attended a party at which the applicable corona requirements had been violated. Thereupon the club announced, however, without naming the players, that it had “knowledge of a meeting and had already worked up the incident internally”. A video appeared on Snapchat showing Brooks and Pongracic partying. This is said to have been created last weekend after the 1: 2 at 1899 Hoffenheim. To SPORTVfL has known BUZZER information from the video since Sunday.
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“The players in question approached the club’s management and apologized sincerely and credibly for their misconduct.” The consequences for the duo have already been determined: “You have been fined and will also provide social services. The health department and the DFL have been actively informed by VfL Wolfsburg,” the statement said. Despite the fine, Brooks and Pongracic will be in the starting line-up against Schalke 04. Brooks is in central defense anyway, Pongracic is available as a replacement for Maxence Lacroix (yellow suspension).
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Shortly before the turn of the year, there was already trouble at VfL because players had not adhered to the Corona requirements applicable at the time. Maximilian Arnold, Maximilian Philipp and Tim Siersleben are said to have met privately in the apartment of their teammate Xaver Schlager and thus violated the DFL hygiene concept and the Lower Saxony Corona Ordinance. At that time, VfL also responded with a brief message, stating that the situation was not presented that way, but that there had been misconduct on the part of the players Speech – but this time it’s different.
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