BErnhard Trares was seething and choosing drastic words. “It’s not a sport, it’s politics,” said the Würzburger Kickers coach. After the release of four professionals from the Corona quarantine on Saturday (1 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the 2nd Bundesliga and on Sky), the bottom of the table in the second Bundesliga has to play with a presumably non-competitive rump team for the away game at SV Darmstadt 98. Trares (48), who tried to control himself at an online press conference on Friday, reported: “I have to be very restrained that I don’t burst. He only has“ eleven and a half ”capable field players plus two goalkeepers. I don’t want to say too much, otherwise it will be irrelevant. “
According to the statutes of the German Football League (DFL) for the Corona special game operation, the promoted player has a sufficient number of at least 15 players. However, injured and banned players are also counted. The associations had drawn up the statutes themselves. “It won’t be a regular game, that’s for sure,” said the former Bundesliga professional Trares, who also played for Darmstadt during his active career.
One of the twelve field players with whom he will travel to Hesse is also one ailing player. He may even have to replace a goalkeeper as a field player. “That is also a plan.” According to the statutes, Würzburg has 17 professionals, including the blocked Ewerton. “We still try – if we have to play – to put together a team,” said Trares. The kickers coach assured us that the game would not be “given up”.
After a member of the functional team of the licensed players ‘team tested positive for the corona virus at the beginning of the week, the Würzburg health department ordered the Kickers’ professional team to be quarantined “until further notice”. As a result, the home game against FC St. Pauli planned for Wednesday was canceled by the DFL. Four actors from Würzburg were released from quarantine on Thursday. The regular Covid-19 test series of the now available cadre plus trainers and supervisors gave exclusively negative results on Friday, according to the club.
Trares again advertised a postponement on Friday: “I appeal to the common sense of the people responsible. I appeal to you to approach each other in these difficult times. ”He spoke of a“ difficult situation ”that he has never personally experienced in the professional field. The newcomer is in last place with four points from eleven games. Relegation place 16 is already seven meters away. Trares is already the third head coach at Kickers this season.
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