Soccer-Fans Opposing Bundesliga Investor Use Tennis Balls To Disrupt Games – News18

BERLIN: German followers, protesting over a deliberate non-public funding within the Bundesliga, interrupted play in a number of matches on Saturday, throwing tennis balls, chocolate and sweet on to the pitches.

Fans throughout the nation have been sad for months over a deliberate sale of a stake within the Bundesliga’s media rights firm to an outdoor investor and have staged protests for weeks.

In 4 of the 5 matches on Saturday, play was interrupted due to the protests, and the referees in each the Hoffenheim-Union Berlin match and Mainz 05 v Augsburg briefly despatched groups to the altering rooms.

Play resumed in each stadiums because it did within the VfL Wolfsburg-Borussia Dortmund match which was repeatedly stopped to permit stadium employees to clear the pitch.

In December, Germany’s first and second tier soccer golf equipment voted in favour of letting a monetary investor take a stake of the German Football League’s (DFL) media arm in a deal valued at between 900 million and 1 billion euros.

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