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Berlin (dpa) - The football season in Lower Saxony is about to be canceled due to the ongoing corona pandemic.
Because team training and competitive matches cannot be resumed in time due to the restrictions, it is currently becoming apparent that the sporting continuation and end of the season can no longer be assumed until July 21, the Lower Saxony Football Association said on Tuesday evening after one non-regular meeting of the NFV board with.
For this reason, the board wants to take an alternative and final decision on how to deal with the 2020/2021 game year in the course of a regular association board meeting in the coming week to provide further planning security for clubs and associations, the message said.
The preferred variant is therefore the termination in the form of cancellation - "taking into account the interface solutions between the Lower Saxony Football Association and the league and cup competitions of higher-level associations."
«Our firm intention was to end the season with sport.
The extent to which this goal is still realistic in view of the drastic increase in the number of infections and the resolutions of the federal-state conference of yesterday was the subject of our discussion today, "said NFV President Günter Distelrath.
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