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Dagmar Freitag questions the good intentions of Bayern Munich’s CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
If she would accept benevolently that he was interested in increasing vaccination readiness, it would be exemplary if FC Bayern had "used a fraction of its considerable income to advertise the vaccination in advertisements and TV spots with the team" said the chairwoman of the Bundestag sports committee on Wednesday in an interview with RTL / ntv.
Flick is reluctant
"That would be a credible measure," said the SPD politician: "But now it looks like he wants to solve his problems above all, because we know that two players currently did not fly to Qatar because of corona infections." The background is probably more "to have healthy players and not to increase the willingness to vaccinate in our country".
Rummenigge had told Sport1 that professional footballers could be role models when vaccinating against the corona virus.
“For example, if a FC Bayern player has himself vaccinated, trust in the population grows,” he said and emphasized at the same time: “As a former footballer, I know what the body means to an athlete: Everything!
We don't want to push our way at all, but footballers could make a contribution to society as role models. "
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Hansi Flick, Bayern's coach, was cautious about the debate.
“We all know that other people have priority first and that we have to and will take a back seat.
It is important that you take the risk groups first ”, said the 55-year-old on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Club World Cup in Qatar.
"I know what Karl-Heinz Rummenigge meant," said Flick after talking to the CEO.
Rummenigge had explicitly not requested any preferential treatment from footballers.
"It is something that is not decided by us, but by politics," Flick added.