Corona at TSG Hoffenheim: The Bundesliga hotspot

After eight corona cases, TSG Hoffenheim must first be in quarantine. But how did the virus get to the Bundesliga soccer club, which actually tests meticulously, and what does that mean?

Et is Germany’s green Bundesliga idyll: Zuzenhausen, where the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim team trains and gets the polish for the next game. At the moment, however, these meadows in the Kraichgau are fallow. The team from North Baden practices at home as best they can – in cyber training units. “Until further notice”, the professionals in the table thirteenth have submitted to the Corona regulations. Your current everyday life is called: quarantine. Eight positive cases in the past few days have made Hoffenheim the Bundesliga hotspot.

A team supervisor and the Dane Jacob Bruun Larsen were the first to sign off at the weekend; it was followed by his compatriot Robert Skov, who tested positive before the Danish international match against Sweden on Wednesday evening; just like the Israeli Munas Dabbur further north before the test of his national team in Norway, which was then canceled. Meanwhile, the club headquarters in Zuzenhausen reported the corona infections of the players Sebastian Rudy, Ishak Belfodil who had stayed at home and Kevin Vogt, who tested positive on Wednesday evening, and there was another sick person from the coaching staff. Eight cases within a few days – the virus has interfered in the everyday life of the professional team more massively than anywhere else in the Bundesliga.