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Bleachers lined with cardboard supporters to cheer the players up, behind closed doors. Mönchengladbach (Germany), April 16, 2020. Ina FASSBENDER / AFP

By: Annie Gasnier Follow

"Wiederaufnahme der Bundesliga!" - Takeover in Germany, D-1! The football world, finally the viewers, will have their eyes riveted on the championship of a country which wants to set an example, hopes to go after the nine days remaining to be played.

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Innovation: five changes per team, the League presented a comprehensive document detailing the post-crisis recovery, with a specific protocol, in a strict health environment. The "BuLi" leaves, Rummenigge the president of Bayern, highlights the good agreement between partners, promotes its championship.
- On the field side, can we fear a restraint of players in a League known for its commitment? What risks for them, what spectacle offered knowing that they have two weeks of training in the legs? - Dortmund and Schalke will wipe the plasters this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. UT during a promising derby, but the stands will ring hollow in a private enclosure of the yellow wall which generally sublimates Borussia - Absentees of importance on the BVB side. - The Munich “Rekordmeister” irremediably launched in a big 8? - The question of sports fairness - The individuals of Bayern favored during confinement by their training equipment? - Leipzig, and 'Gladbach will they return to the "Roten"? 
- The whims of the Duke! While CR7 and other Turin "zebras" have resumed training, Adrien Rabiot stubbornly persists. The French midfielder finally joined his teammates, but accumulated a delay. Does he give the stick to be beaten? Itinerary of a spoiled child who sets off on a showdown with the Bianconero Club? - A lover of Africa has died. A few days later, Robert Herbin, another atypical football tactician, left. Former Rennais Philippe Redon was also the coach of the Indomitable Lions during CAN 1992, failing at the foot of the podium. - Joseph-Antoine Bell will recall his memory.

Annie Gasnier will talk with Rémy Ngono, Xavier Barret, Hugo Moissonnier, but also our German soccer expert David Lortholary.
Video / audio production: Souheil Khedir / Laurent Salerno, preparation: David Fintzel / Pierre Guérin. Live Facebook broadcast from 3:10 p.m. UT

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