the Onion couldn't of done a better story
Posted on 09/17/2020 2:32:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A German football team lost 37-0 to their local rivals after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match.
Ripdorf fielded the minimum number of players on Sunday because their opponents SV Holdenstedt II came into contact in a previous game with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.
Their team tested negative but Ripdorf said the conditions were not safe.
If Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.
They had asked for the match - in the 11th tier of German football - to be postponed but the local association refused.
Ripdorf said they did not feel safe as at the time of the game 14 days had not yet passed since Holdenstedt players had come into contact with the person who tested positive.
Holdenstedt's first team did not play in the match and the club fielded their second team.
At the beginning of the match, one of Ripdorf's players stepped onto the pitch, passed the ball to an opponent and the team then walked to the sidelines. Ripdorf co-chair Patrick Ristow told ESPN: "The Holdenstedt players did not understand. But we did not want to risk anything."
He added of his players: "They did not go into direct duels and observed the social distancing rules, keeping two metres between them and Holdenstedt players."
Holdenstedt did not hold back, scoring a goal every two or three minutes.
"There was no reason not to play this game," Holdenstedt coach Florian Schierwater said.
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All the tough Europeans died in all the wars.
The elites are laughing.
Wow, that “football” game had a football score. If they had forfeited, it would have only been 3-0.
The really sad thing is that it took them on average 3 min to score a goal with NO OPPOSITION.
Doesn’t this remind you of another kickball match - featuring gynecologists and Long John Silver impersonators?
11th tier?
My disgust for the spinelessness and stupidity of humanity grows daily.
the Onion couldn't of done a better story
” after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match. “
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Mind shattering there are so many people THAT stupid.
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I swear I had look three times to make sure this wasn’t the Babylon Bee.
At that point you try to find the coolest ways to score. I coached my kids. We played teams that were so bad I told then could only shoot on the goal with their heads. The would still score. Putting the bad players up there and no right foot touches at all they could score. Hard to watch. Then again we played a Mexican team that made us look terrible. I felt bad until the other players drove themselves home and it was a U16 team. Cheaters.
Monty Python already did this, but in a much more entertaining form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B97_TUyWygE
The Germans lost . . . . to the Greeks.
The Germans lost . . . . to the Greeks.
Must be fake news. Everyone knows the Germans pwn the Greeks at everything.
I remember that and it’s still hilarious.
Funny until the comment about the Mexican team.
That team of Mexicans could play amazing. Best ball control, natural instincts, open positioning, run throughs, tactics ... beat us 10 -0 we only had 1 shot on goal. They really knew how to play at a level you don’t see in rural Alabama.
good stuff
Soccer,
foreigners game.
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