For several weeks now, the game has been suspended in the Bundesliga. Ex-DFL boss Andreas Rettig is not enthusiastic about it. He calls for preferential treatment for football – and a special measure.
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In the Corona crisis, former DFL managing director Andreas Rettig demands that politicians give preferential treatment to football. “A frowned upon ghost game” can be an event in times of domestic quarantine, “one is looking forward to and talked about,” said the 56-year-old in the Monday edition of the “Kicker”.
“Since there is no foreseeable time at which normal life will begin again, if restrictions are reduced, playing these ghost games can contribute to the diversion and thus to the well-being of people,” Rettig continues.
As a “much cited putty of society”, football is particularly valuable for the long-time Bundesliga official. Even if professional football “does not make a direct economic contribution to maintaining the system”, it “gains in importance through every day of the current ban on contact and the associated social isolation,” says Rettig.
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