DFB comments on the strike
The "IG referee" group goes on the offensive and would like to strike amateur football nationwide next Sunday . The reason is, among other things, the many physical attacks on the referees in the past few weeks and months. The sensational case from Hesse, in which a referee was prosecuted for a supposedly too loud whistle under civil and criminal law, has also been angry with the interest group, which is not an official referee organization. A lack of support for the associations was a reproach afterwards. On their website, the "IG referee" sums up their demands as follows: "We need fundamental reforms to protect the referees, legal protection and accident insurance for volunteer referees, assumption of costs of the associations in the event of damage, position of a lawyer. Adequate fair expense allowances." Demands, which are generally approved by official referee groups, but many referees will still not participate in the strike. Well, says the Germ...