Players arriving in several sparsely-populated team buses, substitutes wearing masks and goal celebrations limited to elbow bumps -- when German football returns to the pitch this weekend, it will have to follow a draconian set of guidelines.
The German Football League (DFL) presented political leaders with a 51-page document of guidelines to earn the right for the Bundesliga to become the first of Europe's big five leagues to resume action.
The matches will be surrounded by extraordinary measures to protect players and officials from infection by coronavirus.
And the weighty text underlines that "all of the measures are conditional on the fact that they do not divert indispensable resources from the fight against COVID-19 for the rest of the population".
- Testing and quarantine -
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- Empty stadiums -
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- On the pich -
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- Holed up in hotels -
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- Private lives -
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