Attention, captain: Robert Andrich von Bayer Leverkusen, the bandage does not protect against the dismissal.Picture Alliance / Jens Niering
The captain rule should ensure a common cooperation – also in district league places. There, however, it is being used more and less consistently. Also because the Bundesliga doesn’t make it better.
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