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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - DFL managing director Christian Seifert has criticized the fan attacks on players of the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 with clear words.
"The violent attacks on FC Schalke 04 players are to be condemned in the strongest possible way," said Seifert to "11 Friends": "A limit has clearly been exceeded here, something like that has no place in the Bundesliga."
The head of the German Football League would like the supporters to make a clear statement on this matter. “In the past few months, numerous developments in professional football have rightly been criticized, sometimes sharply. Finally, the planning of a Super League by some clubs, "he said:" Now it would also look good for one or the other fan organization to take a clear and perceptible position on the escalation on Schalke. When we talk about undesirable developments, we must not ignore verbal and especially physical violence and must condemn it without any ifs or buts. "
After returning from the 1-0 defeat at Arminia Bielefeld on Tuesday, which sealed Schalke's relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga, the team was received by 500 to 600 supporters, according to the police, and sometimes faced with "massive aggression".
Eggs flew, players fled and there are said to have been kicks against professionals.
The Gelsenkirchen police now want to investigate the events with an investigative commission.
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Article at 11freunde.de