Wednesday, December 15, 2021
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Bundesliga boss wants vaccinations in the stadium
Roll up your sleeves and say “zack, zack, zack” with the syringes. Eintracht Frankfurt President Peter Fischer wants to carry the vaccination campaign to the fans. Borussia Dortmund is already one step further. A vaccination center has been set up there in the past few weeks.
President Peter Fischer of Eintracht Frankfurt wants to have a large-scale vaccination against the corona virus in front of the stadiums on the sidelines of the Bundesliga games. His “appeal to the new decision-makers in Berlin” reads: “Include every Bundesliga club in your vaccination campaign. Every weekend, when tens of thousands flock to the stadiums, every club can vaccinate,” said Fischer in an interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” “: “This is not a problem.”
Every club can “organize this without any difficulties, because we are used to directing mass events in an orderly fashion,” said Fischer: To be able to supply the people with the vaccines in a hurry. Then every Saturday or Sunday the syringes go bang, bang, bang! Give us the vaccine, then we’ll all start immediately. ”
Fischer believes that his proposal will “certainly reach a large number of people”, “to whom we, the 18 Bundesliga clubs, could make a vaccination offer in order to help get Corona under control.”
Model Borussia Dortmund
The Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund has been showing how to do it for a long time. There in Westphalia they built a vaccination center in their own stadium without big words and without much PR. Not in order to obtain relief in the battle for the number of viewers, but in order to react to the escalating number of infections at the beginning of December with quick and uncomplicated vaccination options.
The Dortmund stadium is therefore also a vaccination center for the second time. One in which, according to ntv.de information, well over 6000 people have been vaccinated since the resumption of vaccination. Around ten percent of them are first vaccinations. One that is praised by NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst as an example of a “simple and easily accessible offer” and one that those who were there are enthusiastic about.
“Only nice and friendly employees do that,” says Tobias Michels in an interview with ntv.de. Michels is a supporter of the local club, but in the fight against Corona nobody in the Ruhr area wears club glasses: “A simple, smooth process. Super organized. I can recommend that to Schalke. And I have that. And I only have positive feedback from them to get.”
The Dortmund team had already set up a vaccination center in the stadium in July. “Our main concern is the social responsibility we have as a football club. Not just for our fans, but for the entire community,” said Björn Hegemann, head of the fan affairs department at BVB, in an interview with ntv.de.