Football, 3rd division: The corona quarantine for coach Michael Köllner from the third division soccer team 1860 Munich is a farce. After the unexpected interruption of his isolation due to contact with an infected player for the lions’ point game on Sunday (1 p.m. / MagentaSport) at Halleschen FC, according to 1860, the mayor and health department of the Saale-Stadt issued the 51-year-old hardly less surprisingly a ban on entry the arena of the HFC.
After a positive corona test last Tuesday, Köllner had to go into quarantine with Munich’s defender Kevin Goden as well as several colleagues of the defender. In contrast to his quarantined players, Köllner is fully vaccinated, but is still waiting for the 14-day period to develop the full vaccination protection. In negotiations with the local health authority, however, 1860 ensured that Köllner would have been allowed to travel to and from the stadium in isolation and, after submitting a negative PCR test, coach the team in Halle with a permanently worn FFP2 mask in the cabin and on the edge of the field. The city administration in Halle, which is responsible according to its own information, apparently assessed the situation differently based on the corona regulations valid in Saxony-Anhalt.
Regardless of Köllner’s apparently late vaccination, the lions reacted “with great disapproval” to the stadium ban for their coach. “We have to ask the question whether this has to do with fair competition or whether an advantage should only be created from a predicament,” said Munich’s managing director Günther Gorenzel. The Austrian interpreted the decision by Halle’s authorities against a stadium permit for the former first division promotion coach of 1. FC Nürnberg as inappropriate and illegitimate interference in matters of sport: “If in future local politicians and health policy authorities intervene directly in the sporting competition, we have in German professional football can expect a lot of decisions at the green table this season and not, as it should be, on the green lawn. “
2nd Bundesliga, games: FC St. Pauli missed the leap to the top of the table in the 2nd Bundesliga. When the north rivals Hannover 96 started weakly, Hamburg lost 1-0 (0-1) and conceded the second away defeat in a row. While the Kiezkicker slipped to fifth place, 96 climbed into the middle of the table after their second home win. Sebastian Kerk (39th) scored the winning goal for Lower Saxony, who, under their new coach Jan Zimmermann, had the worst start in the second division in 31 years with just four points from the first five games. Zimmermann had to replace experienced Mike Frantz injured in midfield after just four minutes, but the hosts decided the first half. The hosts’ first chance to score was missed by Maximilian Beier, who failed with a header at goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj (9th). Shortly before the break, Kerk, who was substituted on for Frantz, did better and won a well-deserved opening goal.
Werder Bremen made the slow start of the season in the 2nd soccer league completely forgotten and scored the second sovereign victory in a row. Bremen won a well-deserved 3-0 win at newly promoted FC Ingolstadt (2-0). An own goal by Nico Antonitsch (24th) and the hits of the strong newcomers Mitchell Weiser (42nd) and Marvin Ducksch (49th) ensured the away win of the green-whites, who jumped to third place in the table for the time being.
Fifa, World Cup: Sports director Max Eberl has clearly criticized FIFA’s plans for a soccer World Cup every two years. “I think the idea is completely wrong. I think it’s complete nonsense to discuss such topics at such a time,” said the creator of Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday. Rather, football must be careful not to become too “inflationary”. “Football is already very present today. More presence does not lead to more interest, but rather to disinterest,” said Eberl. Gladbach coach Adi Hütter also pointed out that even more stakes for the players “are almost impossible to do because of the strain.” It’s always about the health of professionals.
Tennis, US Open: At the US Open, two teenagers are sensationally in the tennis final for the last Grand Slam title of the year. After 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez, 18-year-old British Emma Raducanu also won her semi-finals on Thursday evening. Raducanu is the first female qualifier in US Open history to make it into the final of the hard court classic. There were two teenagers in the final seven times before, most recently in 1999 in the duel between Serena Williams and Martina Hingis.
Fernandez, who had prevailed against Angelique Kerber and Naomi Osaka in the previous rounds, defeated Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus 7: 6 (7: 3), 4: 6, 6: 4 in the semifinals. Raducanu then won her duel with the number 17 seeded Greek Maria Sakkari 6: 1, 6: 4. The final is on Saturday (10:00 p.m. CEST). “It’s years, years, years of hard work and tears and blood and everything. I really wanted to get into the final,” said Fernandez. “I’m happy to be in the final.”
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