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DFL recommends a minute’s silence on the next Bundesliga matchday
16.10.2023, 11:46 | Reading time: 2 minutes
There was already a minute’s silence in the third division game between BVB II and Rot-Weiss Essen due to the attack on Israel.
There will be a minute’s silence in the German professional leagues on the coming match day. The DFL and DFB made this recommendation to the clubs.
Frankfurt. Die German football league (DFL) recommends for the coming weekend in the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga on the occasion of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel a minute of silence. The league association announced this on Monday. “After the devastating events,” the victims in Israel should be remembered in this way, the statement said. The bloody attack by the Islamists Hamas on Israel with at least 1,300 deaths and the harsh Israeli reaction Gaza Strip have shut down international sport in Israel. Israel’s national team’s games in the current European Championship qualification were initially postponed.
Also the German Football Association (DFB) recommends a minute’s silence before the games in the 3rd league and in the Bundesliga for women’s footballers next weekend. “The terrorist attack by Hamas on the Israeli civilian population and the devastating escalation in the Middle East conflict are also causing deep concern in German football,” said a DFB statement. The association wants to work together with the DFL set a sign.
Maccabi Germany misses solidarity with Israel
Alon Meyer had on Sunday as President of the German-Jewish Sports Association Maccabi lack of solidarity from the DFB and from German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) complains. “Of course I miss the unrestricted solidarity there. It should have come immediately. There were bilateral conversations and telephone calls. But in my opinion that is definitely not enough,” Meyer told Deutschlandfunk.
Rather, appropriate consequences are required: “One Taskforce“, which must be set up in order to avoid such hate and inflammatory slogans in the future, which also occurred at Bundesliga games in the DFL,” said Meyer. When asked on Sunday, the DFB said it condemned “all anti-Semitism in Germany. We observe what is happening on and next to the sports fields and are involved Maccabi Germany continue to be discussed.”
2023-10-16 11:20:45
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