Since a couple of weeks is allowed in soccer training, under certain conditions again. We have paid the TSV Bern Beuren a visit.

Bern Beuren – The group to fit the balls, the second power of sprint exercises, and the third shoots again and again on target. Training on Tuesday night at the TSV Bern Beuren. Coach Daniel Deli has built up with rods and cones, three stations at which players improve their Fitness and technique work. As far as the looks quite normal, what is happening there on the lawn. At least at first glance. But Corona times nothing almost normal. Not even the daily training of the district League footballers, such as the visit in Bern Beuren shows.

For the 13 players to travel in your workout clothes and have to drive sweaty back home, showers and changing rooms are closed due to the prescribed protective measures. And while footballers usually come in two fight really close, it must be 1.50 meters distance kept. The opponents are not so against players, you don't have rods, cones, and running exercises, the time. Clear and Wolfgang Meyer. The goalkeeper in the shot, the balls exercises fly around the ears. The Ball lands in the net, he may listen to one or the other spell. He holds him, he is not necessarily quiet. The County League footballers have a lot of fun to be together on the field to have the Ball at his feet. Finally.

"You're a Team with such units, not better,"

Deli tried with all requirements to bring variety to the Training. And that is probably your own worst critic. "You're a Team with such units, not better," he says. "Sure, you can get at target practice safety in the financial statements." But the elementary things of football are missing – such as, for example, the pressure of a player is triggered, if it is on the Ball. And the degree of aggressiveness needed in the fight to enforce. Both will not work with 1.50 meters distance.

Although the Deli know, was one of Bern Beuren, in the County of the first team, according to the Corona-enforced break, were back on the court. And tried, how the Training works. Since then, the first team meets once a week for about an hour, sometimes a year and a half. Also, if’s not perhaps the great leap in performance. "We have the Ball at his feet, can see us. That's the point now,“ says Deli. The second team, which is the first on the field, trained a day later. The women to chase once a week to the Ball.

The youth teams pause yet

In the case of youth, there's still a standstill. "Does the boy already hurt," says head of Department Felix Lindauer, who trained the B-youth. However, the organization is difficult, because the Junior teams game communities have to unite with Neighboring. Common trips to the Training are not allowed. "Then all the parents would bring their children individually." In the case of the Smaller comes to this, that they can comply with the spacing only.

And so only the adults ran may currently. If you want to – who has concerns about the Virus, can stay at home. "It must log off, no one with me," says Deli, which is also different than usual. In addition to players and coaches Department leaders to Lindauer is on Tuesday evening on the field, in order to support the Deli at the individual stations. With markings of the square was quartered. In each corner, a maximum of five people may reside – including the coach. Deli can't be everywhere at once and not everything is exactly in the eye. Because one or the other player already "sloppy errors allowed," he says. Again and again, Deli, corrected the shooting stance of his players, calling from one to the other the quarter-over: "The leg, watch the leg!" Or cross the box, the instruction for the next Sprint.

"But still, it's better than nothing"

The small groups, in which the players are divided, have been determined in advance, and must so remain, as a rule. Lindauer makes sure that all the keep in mind. He is the corona officer of the Association. "They are disciplined," says Lindauer about the circle of the League players. "Just a class guy." Deli calls together the troops here. The footballer to run up to him, but all with enough distance to each other. As if it were the most Normal thing in the world.

But it is not normal that simple. Therefore, it remains also in such a of exercise per week. It would have been too bland. "Football is actually multi-faceted," says the Deli – diverse than it could be Training under these conditions. "But still, it's better than nothing."

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