• Bundesliga: Kalou's controversial video that endangers the start

European football looks at Germany and crosses his fingers. The whole industry will depend on what happens in the Bundesliga, at the beginning of which the authorities can set a date today. Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with the presidents of the Länder, the regional states, who are the ones who have jurisdiction over sporting events and among whom there is a current in favor of starting that integrates the most powerful. The positives in the tests, despite being very minority, below 2%, generate concern but do not stop the determination of the Bundesliga, which has become Europe's test-tube against the pandemic.

The Spanish League is one of the most expectant at what happens at the Berlin meeting. With the support of the Government, it has taken firm steps to comply with its road map and return in June, despite the doubts of the players, endorsed yesterday by the Eibar squad in a statement. The Bundesliga hopes to do so this month, but a step back in Germany, any small mistake, could have an irreversible ripple effect on all of football. This is demonstrated by a simple video, made by the player Salomon Kalou in the Hertha Berlin dressing room, which shows how the footballers did not respect sanitary measures. The club suspended him abruptly. It is necessary, therefore, to be prophylactic, discreet and firm.

In the first round of tests, in total 1724, carried out on all the players of the 36 Bundesliga clubs and the second category, only 10 positives appeared, several on the Cologne squad. But in a second wave, an assistant from Ergebirge Aue, from the second division, tested positive. The case prompted the club, in coordination with German health authorities, to send all footballers home, pending further testing on Thursday. Depending on the result, they will return to training. The case, however, demonstrates the weakness on which the future of soccer is sustained.

Germany strives to normalize the appearance of some positive cases, something that doctors assume can also happen in Spain, where the tests on footballers are started. If asymptomatic cases appear that have generated antibodies, they would not represent, theoretically, a problem, but the uncertainty would increase.

Armin Laschet , president of North Rhine-Westphalia, where six clubs are located, including Borussia Dortmund, Schalke or Borussia Moenchengladbach, and Markus Söder , leader of Bavaria, the region of the powerful Bayern, will ask, today, that the tournament be started As soon as possible, they had even shuffled on May 15. They have Health Minister Jens Spahn on their side , who believes that football can be an experimental sport, a pandemic test bench for everyone else.

The test protocol is clearer than in Spain and clearly massive, since Germany has not lacked evidence for the most vulnerable sectors in our country. The state of alarm has not been decreed either, with less restrictive and different measures according to the degree of affectation of the regions. Soccer starts from a more effective control of the pandemic.

The Bundesliga footballers will be tested at least once a week and always on the eve of the matches of the nine pending matches. There will be three limited areas (grass, grandstand and outdoor) for a maximum of 300 people per meeting. Players will not shake hands or hug each other after the goals, and to prevent unknown fans from bars from doing so either, the rights-owning chains Sky and DAZN could resell and share them with open networks. Measures that can guide the rest, who have their hopes in Germany.

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