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Munich (dpa) - Bayern coach Hansi Flick justified his emotional statements about the corona policy and at the same time offered a conversation to the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach, whom he attacked.
Perhaps it would be good if he talked to Lauterbach "in private", "not in a talk show," said the 55-year-old Flick on Monday evening after Bayern Munich's 3: 3 in the Bundesliga against Arminia Bielefeld.
On Sunday, Flick resisted criticism of the German record champions' trip to the Club World Cup in Qatar and the special role played by football in the corona pandemic, specifically criticizing Lauterbach as a “so-called expert”.
"I'm not someone who would like to put someone he doesn't know in such a light," said Flick a day later.
He had advised German politicians to finally develop a strategy so that people in the Corona crisis would "see light in the tunnel again at some point".
He “did not expect” that his statements would “make such waves” in public, said Flick.
"The last trag was extreme."
He also received some “bad news”.
Perhaps he answered a question in an unusually emotional way, and not just as a trainer, but as a person who has two grandchildren himself and who has also been a retailer for a long time.
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Corona is a great challenge and burden for the population.
“It gnaws at all of us, it makes us a little tired.
Many people are suffering from the pandemic.
We can only get out of this together, »said Flick on Monday evening.
He also knows that professional football is privileged in the current situation.
But you also adhere to the guidelines “very conscientiously”.
He had reproached Lauterbach for commenting on everything.
The health politician had criticized the football clubs' trips abroad.
"It's slowly becoming impossible to hear the so-called experts, including Mr. Lauterbach," Flick said.
The SPD politician responded promptly via Twitter and called on Flick to present his arguments and otherwise “not to be unfair”.
Flick admitted that he could have phrased one thing or the other differently.
“I stand by it,” said the trainer.
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