Almost 100 percent vaccination quota in Gladbach – Eberl: “Have a role model function”

Borussia Mönchengladbach’s sports director Max Eberl sees the foals’ professional footballers in a very special position, especially during the corona pandemic. “We have a role model function – which we want to live up to, and possibly even have to. Nevertheless, everyone is free to decide what they want to do for their health,” said Eberl in an interview with the Sunday express.

As an employer, however, the club can only make recommendations; in the end, each player and employee has to decide for himself. Eberl: “We at Borussia have another player who has not yet had himself vaccinated, but will do so now. Then we have reached a vaccination rate of 100 percent in our licensing area. Speak players and staff. And that’s exactly what we want represent.”

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He himself stated that the pandemic had changed society, “that from my point of view it just doesn’t feel good. At the beginning of the pandemic it was proclaimed that we as a community want to go through this difficult time. I hope that we Bring the solidarity factor back into focus again. ” Everyone is asked.

The pandemic made working in football much more difficult. “In the ten years before the pandemic, professional football was a bit like a land of milk and honey, there was an incredible amount of money involved,” said Eberl Recognize new problems. Be it the size of the squad, financial opportunities, how many spectators come to the stadium, what can I invest? “