Germany will be without two players for its opening World Cup qualifier against Iceland after midfielder Jonas Hofmann tried positive for the coronavirus and full-back Marcel Halstenberg was considered a close contact.
Germany Has Its First Ever Positive Case
The German soccer league said Thursday’s down was all the while going on and that Hofmann was in isolation and symptom-free. A matchday fitness session outside was canceled and the team was screened again utilizing rapid antigen testing kits, with negative results. More tests are gotten ready for Friday. The team’s Instagram account posted pictures Wednesday showing Leipzig defender Halstenberg playing a round of backgammon with Borussia M?nchengladbach’s Hofmann inside. Both were wearing masks. Germany head supervisor Oliver Bierhoff said he was idealistic the virus was probably not going to spread in light of the fact that the team had taken measures to decrease contact between players outside training sessions. That incorporates keeping players separated in two team transports and separate eating game plans.
“Obviously, we will execute any necessities the specialists may have,” Bierhoff said. It is the first run through a player has tried positive for the coronavirus while with the German national team, which has played eight friendlies and Nations League games since the pandemic started. The match against Iceland will be Germany’s first since a 6-0 misfortune to Spain in the Nations League in November. That was the team’s most noticeably terrible at any point rout in a serious game, and most exceedingly awful in any game since 1931. Germany plays Romania away on Sunday and has North Macedonia on Wednesday in Group J.