most of The Bundesliga clubs have not included the preparation for the season 2020/21 yet, since the German professional football has already had its first Corona-the case of the new season. The wolf burgers Kevin Mbabu was tested at the beginning of the first training of all the players and members of the coaching staff required Corona testing positive for the Virus. The 25-year-old Swiss is now in home quarantine and missed the start of the VfL on Saturday.

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“Kevin is currently symptom-free. We have to wait and see, and are for this purpose, as in the past few months in a tight and very good exchange with the health Department in Wolfsburg,“ said VfL sporting Director Marcel Schäfer. All the other results of the two required series of tests prior to the start of the Training that had been conducted on Wednesday and Friday, were negative.In order to avoid the actual case, more contagion, had not taken care of in the VfL for the fact that the player encountered up to the announcement of the results. “The procedure has proven itself,” said Wolfsburg’s sporting Director Marcel Schäfer.

Since the positive Test at Mbabu happened at the beginning of the preparation, the effect is still relatively low. A positive result during the season, could have more serious consequences. So the Team of Dynamo Dresden in the last season of two weeks in quarantine had to, because there were positive cases in the team. 1. FC Köln, there were positive findings, the local health Department declined, however, to isolate the complete team. Otherwise, the German professional football managed to bring the season thanks to a strict hygiene concept without major problems, to the exclusion of spectators to the end.

To the start of the season the League on the third weekend of September, Mbabu should the wolf burgers again be available. For the eighth-final second leg in the Europa League at the 5. August in Kiev against Shakhtar Donetsk, it would probably not extend. Even if coach Oliver Glasner has not given up hope yet. “We have to wait and see the development in the next few days. We still have twelve days time. Maybe there is still the possibility that he completed up to the game the one or the other Training and then also again is,“ said the Austrian.