Football Schalke 04
Farce around the Osnabrück stadium culminates in ghost games and arguments
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The dilapidated Osnabrück stadium was closed at short notice
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The VfL Osnabrück stadium will be closed for a short time, the game against Schalke 04 will be canceled and will be moved to Hamburg. But without spectators. The Schalke players seem to like that better than the hosts.
The second division game between VfL Osnabrück and FC Schalke 04 will finally take place on May 7th at 6:30 p.m. in the FC St. Pauli stadium. As the Osnabrück team announced on Friday, the game in the stadium at Millerntor had to be played without football fans, much to the annoyance of VfL.
“In the last few days we have been working hard to present FC Schalke 04 with realistic and more fan-friendly alternatives. We managed to do this last night. Unfortunately, FC Schalke 04 generally rejected a move to Bremen or Hanover and communicated this in writing, which we do not understand and very much regret,” said the two Osnabrück managing directors Philipp Kaufmann and Dr. Michael Welling on Friday.
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The match cannot be played as planned this Saturday in the Osnabrück stadium on the Bremer Bridge due to structural defects in the roof structure. On Thursday, the city of Osnabrück ordered in writing an immediately enforceable cease-and-desist order.
“Anything but pleasant”
The German Football League then rescheduled the game for next Tuesday and chose the home of FC St. Pauli as the stadium. However, due to the short time and the possible promotion to the first division this weekend, those responsible in Hamburg were unable to organize the game with spectators.
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VfL Osnabrück therefore tried to find another venue where spectators could also have been admitted. With the stadiums in Bremen and Hanover, two alternatives were ultimately presented, which were rejected by Schalke. A behavior that causes a lack of understanding among the purple and white people. “The fact that no spectators can now be there is anything but positive, not only for the fans of both clubs and the economic consequences, but also with a view to the competition,” said Kaufmann and Welling.
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Both twelfth-placed Schalke and bottom-placed Osnabrück are still fighting to stay in the second division. Schalke therefore categorically rejected a later schedule between the 33rd and 34th matchdays. This would have given Osnabrück more time to take measures in its own stadium or to look for alternatives.
