The plans for the Bundesliga restart have been severely dampened by the positive Corona tests in the second division. Can everything go well?
The euphoria of a new start in the Bundesliga lasted just three days. After two positive corona virus tests with second division club Dynamo Dresden the continuation plans of the German Football League (DFL) are already being tested. The entire team has to be quarantined for two weeks, two second division games have to be discontinued.
“If Dresden now goes into quarantine for 14 days, that’s no reason to question the continuation of the second division completely,” said DFL managing director Christian Seifert on Saturday evening in ZDF’s “Current Sports Studio”.
But the fact is: After the permission at the political summit around Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) last Wednesday seemed like a small relief, a possible weakness of the DFL concept is now revealed: In future, even more local health authorities will react to positive cases such as in Dresden and send the whole team and not just affected players to quarantine, a whole test would quickly involve two entire teams and the schedule would be ever tighter. This leads to the question:
Is the Bundesliga season over?