The public returns to Berlin

The public returned to the stadiums in Berlin and more than 4,500 spectators were able to enter to witness the commemoration of the centenary of An der Alten Forsterei, fiefdom of Union Berlin, who faced the Nuremberg just as it happened at the venue's premiere a hundred years ago.

For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, people were able to go to a soccer field. It was reduced, with health conditions and controls. But it was a first step and a test before the start of the Bundesliga.

The 4,500 seats were for members over twelve years of the local club, distributed through a raffle and personalized to guarantee its monitoring and control.

The fans who were able to attend the stadium An Der Alten Fortereide Kopenick, with a capacity for 22,000 seats, they had to wear a mask until they reached their town and also afterwards, to leave the venue.

The Berlin Union, which achieved permanence in the Bundesliga, and the Nuremberg, which remained in Bundesliga 2, they remembered the match of August 7, 1920, the first to be played on this field.

Still this may have been the last match with Union Berlin supporters after last Thursday German Chancellor Angela Merkel extended the ban on public attendance at major events until December 31. However, it remains to be seen if this decision affects football or if, as planned, a small number of spectators will be able to enter the fields.

On the grass, two goals from Danish Marcus Ingvartsen, the second from a penalty, facilitated the victory to Union Berlin (2-1). The austrian Nikola Dovedan made the only goal of Nuremberg, which in 1920, the year of inauguration of this stadium, was champion of the Bundesliga.