DUSSELDORF - Fortuna Dusseldorf coach Uwe Roesler fears a large
number of injuries if too many matches are played in short succession
in a possible Bundesliga restart.
Roesler told the Rheinische Post paper late Thursday there should be
no mid-week games at first when the league resumes, in an effort to
ease the physical stress on the players.
"It can not be that we throw the players under a bus by playing every
three days over four weeks," Roesler said.
"I wouldn't start with a three-game week and after the first one
would follow up with a full week of training. If not, there is fear
of a string of injuries."
Bundesliga clubs are yet to restart full team training as the league
has been suspended since mid-March because of the coronavirus. There
are nine rounds left in the season and the German Football League
(DFL) hopes to play all matches behind closed doors until the end of
June.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers are to discuss a
possible restart on Wednesday. The first matches are not expected to
take place until May 23, after the league had at first hoped for a
May 9 restart.