The German FA banned the coach for using fake vaccination papers.© AFP
A German football coach was banned from football for a year and fined 20,000 euros ($22,564) on Wednesday after admitting that he claimed to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Fake documents were used. Marcus Anfang was sacked by Second Division club Werder Bremen last November after it emerged that he and his assistant coach, who were also fired, had both used forged certificates. The pair had also attempted to trick the local health authority into avoiding quarantine as contact cases.
The German Football Association (DFB) has also imposed a 10-month ban on Anfang’s former assistant Florian Junz and fined 3,000 euros.
“Marcus Anfang and Florian Jung have violated their role-model positions as coaches, largely through their actions,” said Hans E. Lorenz, president of the DFB Sports Court.
As both the pair admitted, their bans are partly on probation so that they can coach the next season.
According to the DFB statement, Anfang and Jung “obtained a forged vaccination certificate in the summer of 2021, which incorrectly identified them as ‘twice vaccinated against the coronavirus'”.
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He handed over fake certificates to Werder, “so that from early autumn he would no longer participate in the club’s regular testing programme”.
In addition, they both presented a forged vaccination card to Bremen’s health authority in order to dodge the quarantine as contact cases after Bremen defender Marco Friedl tested positive.
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