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A European gymnastics champion has to "laugh heartily", a lord mayor starts ranting: Even a few days after the controversial vaccination statements by Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the heated debate about a possible preference for professional athletes is not calm.
“Use common sense to get vaccinated when it's your turn.
I consider it a very daring thesis that a vaccine opponent is convinced by FC Bayern, ”said Turner Marcel Nguyen at“ t-online.de ”.
Rummenigge had suggested at Sport1 this week that football professionals could serve as vaccination models for the population.
Vaccinate footballers first?
"Keep opinion to me"
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge suggested that footballers could be vaccinated earlier in order to serve as role models.
Julian Nagelsmann has his own opinion on this.
Source: Stats Perform News
The Mayor of Mainz Michael Ebling chose much more drastic words in the case of professional sports and vaccination.
"I find it shameful that there are some in the field of professional football who want to compare themselves with the nursing professions, with the medical professions or with the educator professions," said the SPD politician in an interview with the radio station RPR1.
He did not say which advance or comparison he was explicitly aiming at.
“These multimillionaires should just hold back and shut up and stand in the corner and be ashamed.
That would be helpful for our nation, ”complained the mayor.
Mayor of Mainz Michael Ebling
Source: pa / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst
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Rummenigge's statements have been receiving an enormous response for days, although such a question is not on the political agenda either now or in the near future.
The official justified his move with the fact that trust in the population would grow if, for example, a FC Bayern player had himself vaccinated.
Rummenigge had neither asked for preference in the interview nor made a comparison with other professions.
Nguyen would forego the Olympics
Former soccer world champion Christoph Kramer underlined Rummenigge's statements in a Sport1 interview: “If we as soccer players can help more people vaccinate and trust grow, then I think it's a good idea.” Become himself get vaccinated "if I were offered a vaccination," said the 29-year-old professional from Borussia Mönchengladbach.
According to Rummenigge, professional footballers could be role models when vaccinating against the coronavirus
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
A representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov showed that around three quarters of Germans are against preferential vaccination for football professionals.
Numerous athletes and officials made similar statements and emphasized that something like this was out of the question.
Nguyen thinks the question of whether athletes should be given preferential vaccination for participating in the Olympics is insane.
“We should be vaccinated when it's our turn.
If I had to be vaccinated in order to take part in the Olympic Games, but the dose would be taken away from someone else, then I would prefer not to attend the Olympic Games, ”the 33-year-old clarified.