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Wolfsburg (dpa) - A week after his much-criticized appearance in the ZDF “sports studio”, striker Wout Weghorst from VfL Wolfsburg clearly distanced himself from the charge of corona denial.
«I would like to be very clear: I am not a corona denier.
People all over the world died from it, which is shocking, ”said the Dutchman on Sunday evening in an interview with NDR television.
«The way I am formulating it now, I should have done it directly.
The questions surprised me.
And it's not my own mother tongue.
Accordingly, I've thought about it a lot over the last few days and can now express myself better. "
The background to all the excitement is an Instagram post by Weghorst, which was shared by Weghorst in December and later deleted, by an opponent of vaccinations, from which the 28-year-old in the ZDF “Sportstudio” did not distance himself in terms of content, even when asked. The post said at the time: “Imagine there is a vaccine that is so safe that you have to be threatened to take it - for a disease that is so deadly that you have to be tested in order to know that you have it. "
Weghorst was first asked to talk to Wolfsburg sports director Jörg Schmadtke last week.
For the Bundesliga club, the matter is off the table.
The striker himself wanted to explain himself again publicly.
"Right after the broadcast on Saturday evening I had the feeling: Did I have the right words, did I say the right thing?", Weghorst told NDR.
“Then I saw everything over the next few days, on the Internet and on Instagram and a lot was said about it in Holland too.
And then I'm not someone who leaves it indifferent. "
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