Hygiene rules, social distancing, recommended behaviour – Dr. Karl-Heinrich Dittmar, medical director and also pandemics officer at Bayer 04, and his team have taken measures to prevent the Werkself contracting coronavirus. Training is held in groups at different times and in different locations at the training ground – the sessions are being held both at the BayArena and the Ulrich Haberland Stadium as well as on the speed court, in the Werkstatt and on the training pitches. That makes it possible to maintain social distancing.
Before the start of all the training sessions, everybody has to have their temperatures taken. Five devices were sourced for the BayArena and the Bayer 04 to check the temperatures of every player, coach and member of staff. Leon Bailey shows how it’s done: Just stand in front of the camera; within seconds the temperature is read from the forehead. The device sounds a warning with a raised temperature . Training can start if there’s a green light. After the first hurdle, there are hand sanitisers located at various points across the Bay Arena.
Instead of the usual route to the dressing rooms, Kerem Demirbay and Co. now use the Mixed Zone. The distribution of kit has been moved there temporarily. The area is more spacious than the dressing rooms and that avoids any problems with collecting or returning training kit and boots.
The Werkself players get changed in different areas. In addition to the home dressing room, the away changing room and facilities for youth teams and conference rooms are also used. That guarantees the maintenance of social distancing from each other before and after the sessions. Showers after training sessions are not permitted at the BayArena at the moment.
Communal meals in the morning and at lunchtime are also off the agenda. It’s not sociable but nobody is left hungry – there is breakfast and lunch but individually packed to take away. Drinks are provided as is fruit and the dish of the day. The players can serve themselves in turn.
Once again this year, Bayer 04 took part in the 'Sterntaler' event organised by the Leverkusen community foundation and thereby helped small Christmas dreams come true. For the seventeenth time in succession, the foundation organised the Sterntaler event to bring joy to children and senior citizens in need in Leverkusen. 789 wishes were fulfilled this year.
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The rearranged date has been confirmed for the annulled Werkself match away to SC Freiburg at the start of the season in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga. The German Football Association (DFB) announced on Friday that the game will be replayed on Sunday, 26 January (kick-off: 12.00 CET, Dreisamstadion, live on MagentaSport and DAZN).
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The first meeting has to be replayed, the return match is coming up now: Three days after the 3-2 win for the Werkself against SC Freiburg in the season opener in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga was officially annulled now comes the final match of the year in the return game. The team led by coach Roberto Pätzold play the side from the Breisgau at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium at noon CET tomorrow and will be looking to build on the strong performance of last weekend.
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The federal court of the German Football Association (DFB) has rejected the appeal by Bayer 04 against the replay of the Women's Bundesliga game at SC Freiburg (3-2) in a written judgement. The announcement was made by the association on Tuesday afternoon.
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