The German Football Association president, Fritz Keeler, wants to use the Federation’s infrastructure to launch collective tests to detect the new Corona virus, with the aim of helping the fans return to the stands, perhaps beginning with the match against Spain next September in the European League.
"There has to be a way to get back to normal life through tests," Keeler told the Badische Zeitung newspaper on Monday.
The German Football Association is the largest sports federation in the world with about seven million and 100,000 members. Keeler indicated that if each member can reach others in 25 thousand clubs nationwide, a huge number of tests will be conducted, with the help of people through Club medical experience.
Keeler stressed that not only football but society as a whole will benefit from these large numbers of tests, and there will not be any risk entering the stadiums after 48 hours of negative evidence as a result of the analysis.
The German Football Association and the German Bundesliga are planning to return the fans again in the new season, but in limited numbers, after fans were banned from attending the final stages of the last season due to the pandemic.
The Bundesliga diagram focuses on the Bundesliga and second-tier competitions, while the Football Association is working with experts on its plan for the national team, the German Cup, the third division and the women's first division.