With the top clubs in the Bundesliga already back in training, envious rivals across Europe are watching to see if the Germans will be on top or pay the price when the championship resumes.
Europe's top leagues are desperate to return to competition to avoid financial disaster due to the coronavirus pandemic, but if they move too quickly, they risk injuring their players. But even slow motion also comes at a great cost. In addition to the concern of player injuries, the resumption of training also presents a problem of fairness, if some clubs can resume faster than others and this fact can harm the competition because they can produce positive results during competitions, KOHA reports.
The issue has come up in Germany, where Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich and second-placed Borussia Dortmund and several other clubs on Monday resumed training in small groups in line with an earlier recommendation from the German soccer league. .
The Bundesliga is hoping to resume in the first few days of May after being suspended in mid-March due to the spread of the coronavirus in Germany. "We have to combine two central goals, namely to keep the players in very good condition and at the same time avoid possible infections," said Martin Przondziono, Paderborn's sporting director. RB Leipzig had continued training without contact during the suspension, until Augsburg resumed on March 23.
Until Monday, only Freiburg and Werder Bremen were the only Bundesliga teams that had not resumed training. However, these teams are also expected to resume during this week.
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