Football – Freiburg im Breisgau – Coach Streich: “Pull yourself together so that it’s not depressing” – Sport

Freiburg (dpa) – Coach Christian Streich from SC Freiburg finds Bundesliga games in almost empty football stadiums increasingly mentally challenging. In the ghost games at the beginning of the Corona pandemic, he and his team were still very focused on “getting something positive and exciting out of this situation. In the meantime, you have to pull yourself together in the stadium on Saturdays so that you don’t get depressed,” he said “Badische Zeitung” (Thursday).

With “so much emptiness” and the occasional heckling, “a funny background noise is created because everything reverberates from this concrete. It’s just not nice to kick without spectators,” he explained before the top game at second-placed Borussia Dortmund on Friday (8:30 p.m /DAZN). Most recently at the start of the second half of the season, Freiburg against Arminia Bielefeld (2-2) only 500 spectators were allowed, in Dortmund there are 750. “If there is nobody in such a huge stadium, it’s annoying,” said Streich.

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