European Super Cup: Bayern Munich plays in a dangerous region for health

Bayern Munich, the champions of the Champions League, will be a candidate to win their fourth title this year when they face Europa League champion Sevilla tomorrow, Thursday, in the European Super Cup, but a health concern occupies his mind amid German authorities' concern about fans traveling to Budapest, which It has been classified as a "dangerous area" for health due to the high number of "Covid-19" virus infections.

The 45th edition of the Continental Super Cup, which brings together the champions of the Champions League and the European League "Europa League" annually, will be held in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, at the "Puskas Arena", with an audience of 20,000 fans by the European Union for the game in stadiums that can accommodate 67,000.

But in light of the significant increase in the number of new infections with the Coronavirus in Hungary, German health authorities classified Budapest as a "dangerous area" after new infections exceeded the threshold of 50 new cases per 100,000 people.

It was expected that three thousand fans would travel to each side of the match, according to the tickets allocated by the Confederation to the giant of Bavaria and its Andalusian rival, but the number fell to 500 fans for the latter and 1,300 for the German team that won the last season three league, local cup and European Champions League, after the warning issued by the authorities from The dangers of traveling to Budapest.

The coach of the Bavarian club, Hanzi Flick, asked why the Confederation held the match despite the health risks, "but we are not in a position to make decisions," according to what he said, at a time when the Prime Minister of Bavaria Markus Sweder expressed his concerns about the repercussions of the continental match in front of the public.

Sweder stressed today, Monday, the need to "be very careful not to risk a new type of ischgl-spherical," referring to the Austrian ski resort "Ischgl", where thousands of visitors were infected with the virus at the beginning of the outbreak of the pandemic in Europe.

It is preferable not to go to the Hungarian capital, Sweder said, adding, "I am really having a stomach ache in connection with the Super Cup. We cannot risk having two or three thousand people having the possibility of falling into each other's arms to celebrate, and then we will be faced with a massive wave of infection." .

Hungary this month closed its borders to foreigners in an attempt to curb the spread of "Covid-19", excluding players and audiences coming to attend international sporting and cultural events.

Super Cup of the outbreak?

And every fan accompanying Bayern to the Hungarian capital must undergo a "Covid-19" test before traveling and after returning, or to put himself in isolation for a period of two weeks and "so we can avoid that they pose a risk of infection," according to Sweder.

Each of the two teams set up a testing center in his city to avoid Thursday's match in Budapest turning into an outbreak of stalemate, while the German newspaper Bild asked Tuesday, "Will the European Super Cup turn into the Super Cup for an outbreak?"

The chief executive of the Bavarian club, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, strongly criticized the fans of the team who ignored the rule of social distancing and sat in a group next to each other to watch the opening match of the league in which Bayern scored a landslide victory over Schalke by eight clean.

Rummenigge promised to correct this mistake in Budapest, saying, "We all agree that the picture (the group) was not perfect, we must and we will change this matter for our next match," in which Bayern will be strong candidates to emerge victorious and lift the trophy only for the second time in its history, after 2013 when he beat Chelsea, England (lost three times in 1975, 1976 and 2001).

Bayern enters the meeting against the backdrop of 22 successive victories in all competitions, and he is Yemeni in renewing his supremacy over Seville, which he faced only once in 2018 in the Champions League quarter-finals when he won the first leg in Andalusia 2-1 and then tied back in Munich without goals.

After scoring a penalty kick and scoring twice in a landslide victory over Schalke 04, Polish striker Robert Lewandowski trained for just 12 minutes on Tuesday to allow him to recover from a blow to his ankle.

On the side of Seville, who won the Super Cup once also in 2006 in his first participation before losing in 2007, 2014, 2015 and 2016, coach Julen Lopetegui's team is missing matches after being exempt from competing in the first two stages of the Spanish League as a result of its late continental season and reaching the final. "Europa League", where he defeated Inter Milan and strengthened his record with the number of championship titles (6).

Since they are outside Lopetegui’s accounts for this season and are favorites to leave, the French Brahim Amadou, Joris Nyanion, Rocky Mesa and Alex Vidal missed the team’s last training session on Tuesday.

And this summer the Andalusian club restored the services of its former Croatian player, Ivan Rakitic, who is looking for a personal revenge against Bayern after the humiliating defeat he and his former team, Barcelona, ​​suffered in August at the hands of the Bavarian club 2-8 in the Champions League quarter-finals (he did not participate in the match and remained on the bench) .

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