Bundesliga: 14 out of 18 clubs ‘negative’, Koln three ‘positive’

In Germany, in an effort to get footballers back to the greens and finish the season as soon as possible, they tested members of all first-team teams. According to the Kicker newspaper, it was clear on Sunday night that 14 of the 18 Bundesliga members had no positive role models.

A lot of excitement and new doubts about the possibility and the reasonableness of the competition during the calm of the crisis due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus were provided by positive samples from the team from Cologne, where it was found that three members of the club were tested positive. According to the newspaper Kicker, for the time being this club is the only one with a confirmed positive test. There have not been a single case of 14 teams, but only three clubs have yet to report the results of the tests: Augsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Leipzig.

Tim Meyer, who heads up a working group in the German league to get back into the racing rhythm, said the system they put in place in Germany is still vulnerable. “If there are too many positive cases, this system will fall. There is no doubt about that,” he explained, adding that they would therefore require complete discipline in all measures of football return. With more than 2,000 tests conducted so far in football and the first league, Meyer expected some positive results. “We cannot exclude that another case will occur. Even those who are now negative may be positive when new testing is performed, so we will repeat the tests.” He said to the critics that the German League system is not 100% reliable, as such could not be created.