Lokomotive Leipzig will play against the invisible opponent in order to help the club’s finances through coronakrisen.
There must be creative, when the football clubs in these times must try to save the economy, while coronakrisen have put a stop to leagues the world over.
It has been done in the German 4. divisionsklub Lokomotive Leipzig.
Here you have in a few weeks, sold 127.012 tickets (at the time of writing on Monday night, red.) for a match that must be settled in may.
In may?, think many enough, as most leagues have longer prospects for a reopening.
But the fight in Lokomotive Leipzig is without opponents, and the spectators do not get a chance to get in the stadium, but will instead access to a livestream, so that they can follow at home.
What more exactly is going to happen during the fight, is still a secret, says a spokesman from the club to BBC Sport.
– coming livestream, luminous is turned on, and our stadionspeakere will comment on the fight. I can’t tell more at the moment, he says.
A ticket to the game costs one euro and is an attempt to save the clubs economy through coronakrisen.
the Support heater in the German club, who on average 3000 spectators for the home games.
– On behalf of the whole association I would like to thank all supporters who have sent donations from all over the world, says the club’s president, Thomas Löwe
– It is nice to see how the blue-and-yellow family is holding together in these difficult times.
the Match must be played on the 8. may at Lokomotive Leipzig home, the Bruno Plache Stadium.
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