- Title: 287 AT Football restart
- Date: 12th May 2020
- Description:Austria's football Bundesliga envisions June competitive restart Austrian government announces that starting Friday 15 May full team training will resume after being suspended since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following that, the Austrian Bundesliga may resume under strict conditions and without spectators by the beginning of June. The league plans to play the first games at the beginning of June. The first competition match is to be the cup final between defending champions Salzburg and second division team Austria Lustenau. The general schedule is to be worked out at the Bundesliga club conference on Wednesday. Two weeks ago, the situation had looked much worse from a league point of view. At that time, the security concept had been rejected by politicians due to insufficient quarantine measures. Now an agreement has been reached: The key point in this connection is that if a player tests positive, he must be placed in home quarantine and is no longer allowed to train. His teammates, on the other hand, may continue to train and even play matches as long as they have negative corona test results. Shotlist - Cutaways press-conference of Werner Kogler, Austrian Vice Chancellor and Sports Minister, Rudolf Anschober, Health Minister, Leo Windtner, President of the Austrian Football Association, Christian Ebenbauer, CEO of the Austrian Bundesliga, and Peter Stöger, Sports Director of the Football Club Austria Vienna - SOUNDBITE- (German) Rudolf Anschober, AT Health Minister: “The third step will be done on 15 May. We will issue the relevant order tomorrow morning. In that order, it will will be announced that access to outdoor sports areas with the aim to practice sports will be generally allowed. An important detail: while practicing sports - a distance of 2 meters minimum needs to be help towards persons not living in the same household. In top-level sport or in areas where income is generated, the 2-meter distance can be ignored when the responsible team doctor has elaborated a concept that takes preventive measures into count. This is not a special Bundesliga law, this is a rule that applies to all team sports that are practiced on top sports level and that are generating an income, without specification of the fnancial level, the basic requirements are the same for everyone. The Bundesliga is now a pilot project for this approach, the role model that shows us how good the concept works.” -SOUNDBITE- (German) Werner Kogler, AT Vice Chancellor and Sports Minister: “We created now the possibilities for games without public (phantom games).” -SOUNDBITE- (German) Leo Windtner, President of the Austrian Football Association: “When the windows of the Bundesliga open upstairs, they will breathe a sigh of relief at the base, because they wait impatiently to access the sports areas, to restart. 2.200 clubs in Austria with some 300.000 players are excited for weeks to know when they can finally restart, that concerns first of all the tens of thousands of children and youngsters who see football as their purpose in life. “ -SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Ebenbauer, CEO of the Austrian Bundesliga: “All people present on the playground are considered as the same group of people. This group of people will be tested for the first time before beginning the full team training so that we have a uniformized health status of this group of people. This group can move in its context without limits, it can train, it can play, but of course it is asked to minimize social contacts - the role model effect of the players is to be carried and the awareness behind it. If one person in this group of people get infected, this person must be quarantined of course and must get cured, in the same time all other persons of this group are called to remain at home, with the detail that within the group they can and shall continue to go to trainings and games and do their job. Concerning the timetable: As we start the full training on May 15, I am convinced that we will be able to continue the Bundesliga mastership as of the first week of June. “ -SOUNDBITE- (German) Leo Windtner, President of the Austrian Football Association: “As first competition we will put in front the cup final as a continuation of the season.” -SOUNDBITE- (German) Peter Stöger, Sports Director of the Football Club Austria Vienna: “The continued medical care is something normal for us. Many of the requirements are normal in our daily work, the COVID measures are in addition, but it must be said that every player knows that his body is his capital. We are in a situation that with this concept we can be a kind of pioneering role, and we will address it.
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:12/05/2020
- Decade: 2020s