Bundesliga: SC Freiburg introduces penalties against smoking

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Bundesliga club introduces penalties against smoking

Status: 20.10.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes

From now on, SC Freiburg is taking more action against smoking in its home stadium

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Before Saturday’s home game against VfL Bochum, SC Freiburg is stepping up measures to protect non-smokers. Anyone who ignores the smoking ban will receive a yellow card. If the house rules are subsequently violated again, this can have far-reaching consequences.

There is great hope for better sporting times. With the exception of the long-term injured Christian Günter and Daniel-Kofi Kyereh, SC Freiburg can play with their best players again in the home game against VfL Bochum on Saturday (3:30 p.m.). Michael Gregoritsch, who had calf problems, and Lucas Höler, who has since become ill, are also available again.

The international break was good for the ninth-placed team in the table, despite some national players being released. “We now hope that we will be in a different position again in terms of fitness and presence. I am convinced of that too.” The sports club definitely wants to get three points against Bochum, said Streich. If that were successful, the Breisgauers would “not be in such a bad position” with 13 points after eight match days.

As far as the home game against VfL is concerned, there is an innovation in terms of visiting the stadium at SC Freiburg, which has long been committed to health promotion – and, as it announced on its website, now wants to strengthen this again.

“Be considerate,” writes the club

“Visitors who repeatedly ignore the smoking ban in force in the stands at the Europa-Park Stadium can now be warned with a yellow card,” it said in a statement. SC Freiburg wrote that there would hardly be any possibility of escaping the smoke from those sitting next to you, especially in the seating stands. “Anyone who deliberately violates the house rules again despite a yellow card and is caught doing so will consequently receive a red card and can be expelled from the stadium.”

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At the end of the message, the club asks that you be considerate of non-smokers. “Use the areas in the stadium that are approved for smoking, especially in circulation – and don’t get a ticket.”