It's quiet on the capital's football fields.
The corona pandemic also has a firm grip on amateur football.
Game operations have been suspended since last November and training is prohibited.
With a short break in the summer, club life and Berlin football have come to a standstill for over a year.
Bernd Schultz is particularly concerned about this development in the area of children and young people.
The President of the Berlin Football Association fears that children will lose touch with football and that clubs will have to fight for survival.
The 63-year-old represents over 100,000 active soccer players.
WORLD:
Do you feel heard from politics?
Bernd Schultz:
I personally worked very hard with the Berlin Bundestag members to include children and youth sports in the exceptional circumstances of the emergency brake.
I know that at least the state politicians responsible for sport have now recognized our arguments.
I had the opportunity to discuss this in a personal conversation with Sports Senator Andreas Geisel, and I am in a very close exchange with State Secretary Aleksander Dzembritzki.
We feel understood and noticed, but of course you always find counter-arguments in order not to implement everything we want.
WORLD:
Which, for example?