The replacements for Werder Bremen with masks on the bench during the match against Eintract Frankfurt, June 3, 2020. - Stuart FRANKLIN / POOL / AFP

Bundesliga coaches have pleaded this week for easing coronavirus protection measures imposed in Germany since the resumption of football in mid-May, citing the overall improvement in the situation.

At Leverkusen, which hosts Bayern Munich on Saturday (3.30pm), coach Peter Bosz said on Friday: "It's great that we can replay, the DFL (German League) has done things very well. But the protocol was developed in March, and we are in June ”. "The best," he said, "would be to have the right to celebrate a goal again" all together.

No case of massive contagion in clubs since the recovery

On Thursday, its sports director Rudi Völler had been a little more direct: "It has become difficult to understand that people can again have their cappuccino at the cafe without wearing a mask, while the substitutes and us leaders in the gallery are forced to keep our distance, outdoors, and wear a mask, "said the 1990 world champion.

The coach of Paderborn, the red lantern of the championship, also believes that the protocol could be reviewed, in particular for journalists and cameramen: “We have cameramen who are alone within a radius of 30 meters and who have to work with a mask. We have reporters of which we do not understand half the questions, because of the mask, while we keep a distance of three meters! "

The health protocol drawn up by the DFL provides draconian protection and distancing measures in clubs, on the road, in hotels and in stadiums. It is on the basis of this document that the political power authorized on May 16 the resumption of the competitions in first and second division. Since then, no case of massive contagion to the coronavirus has been reported in one of the 36 clubs concerned.

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