The Austrian Football Association, ÖFB, announced on Wednesday that it plans to start the season again on June 2. Earlier it was decided that training should be resumed in smaller forms from April 20 to then return to normal training on Wednesday next week.
When the series had to be canceled due to the corona pandemic, LASK led by six points margin down to the second Salzburg. But now the serial leader can be thrown out and forcibly degraded.
ÖFB has taken part in a newly recorded movie clip from LASK's training facility, where the team must have performed normal workouts, despite the restrictions. The club is now being investigated by the union and charged with violation of corona rules.
- The first thing we need to do is clarify the facts. If the allegations are correct, we must face them with full respect, says federal president Leo Windtner for skiing.
- It is a pure poison against our efforts to get the league started again. It is undisciplined and selfish, says Austria Vienna board member Peter Stöger.
LASK itself claims that they have been exposed to industrial espionage and claimed that people entered their training facility and installed cameras.
- We are shocked that there is obviously a third party who is willing to break the law to pursue industrial espionage. The perpetrators have been filmed and the incident is being investigated right now, says LASK's CEO Andreas Protil according to Sky.