Violating role model function
Fake vaccination card: DFB blocks the beginning for a year
01/26/2022, 3:25 p.m
Former Werder coach Markus Anfang is no longer allowed to work as a coach for a year because he used a fake vaccination card. The sports court of the German Football Association blocks 47-year-olds retrospectively from November 20th. But the beginning gets off lightly.
In the course of the scandal surrounding his supposedly fake vaccination card, Markus Anfang was banned for a year by the sports court of the German Football Association (DFB). In addition, the former coach of the second division Werder Bremen has to pay a fine of 20,000 euros. The 47-year-old’s professional ban applies retrospectively from November 20th. His former assistant coach Florian Junge was suspended for ten months and fined 3,000 euros. This was announced by the DFB.
“Through their actions, Markus Beginning and Florian Junge have violated the role model function as coaches to a considerable extent,” said Hans E. Lorenz, chairman of the DFB sports court: “In view of the confessions they have made, however, it is justified to extend part of the ban Suspend probation to give them the opportunity to re-engage for the 2022/2023 season.” At the beginning, the ban will be suspended from June 10th until June 30th, 2023, at Jung from June 1st.
“Incorrectly reported as ‘dual vaccinated'”
Beginning recently admitted to having deceived with a fake vaccination certificate. “He admitted to having presented a false vaccination certificate,” said Bremen’s chief public prosecutor, Frank Passade, to the SID in early January. In the course of the affair, he resigned in Bremen at the beginning of November. His successor was Ole Werner, with whom Werder Bremen has won every game so far.
According to a DFB announcement, in late summer 2021, the Beginning and Young “each obtained a fake vaccination card that incorrectly identified them as ‘double vaccinated against the corona virus'”. They then presented this to Werder, “so that from early autumn they no longer took part in the tests prescribed by Werder Bremen in the DFB/DFL hygiene concept. In addition, both also presented the counterfeit vaccination card to the Bremen health department in order to avoid contact as a result of the contact to withdraw from the legally required quarantine with the Bremen player Marco Friedl, who was suffering from Corona at the time.