Hertha Berlin will become the first Bundesliga club whose squad and technical staff are forced to undergo a full quarantine two weeks as a result of four positives at the Berlin club. The player Marvin Plattenhardt joined the cases of coach Pal Dardai, his second Admir Hamzagic and attacker Dodi Lukebakio on Thursday., fulfilling the number of positives that, according to the health plan of the federation, orders to isolate the entire team.
In this way, the competition body will have no choice but to postpone a total of three Hertha matches. They remain in the air, therefore, the games against Mainz, against Freiburg and against Schalke, which will be a real headache for those responsible for the league federation when it comes to finding new dates. With only six days to go, the margin of maneuver in the calendar is of the most limited, especially with the Eurocopa in the horizon.
According to the daily Bild, the Berlin District Health Council Charlottenburg / Wilmersdorf ordered after the third positive that the entire team undergo a group quarantine that could only have been abandoned for training and games, but the players did not comply. Always according to Bild, the members of the staff went to their homes, where now they will have to stay for the next few weeks after the positive fourth in the ranks of Hertha.