The DFL said
both players had broken the health guidelines that had governed Bundesliga
clubs and players since the league restarted amid the COVID-19 pandemic on May
16.
Borussia
Dortmund’s Manuel Obafemi Akanji was fined an unspecified amount by the German
Football League (DFL) on Friday for failing to wear face mask during a visit
from a hair dresser this week.
Also fined
was Jadon Sancho.
In total, six
Dortmund players, including rising star Sancho and Akanji, got their hair cut
by the visiting hairdresser, who then asked some of them to take pictures with
him.
“It is clear
that pro players also need to get their hair cut. But that has to happen in
line with the medical and hygiene concept,” the DFL said in a statement.
“The fines
are not against the club which is not seen as having a responsibility in this
case.”
Bundesliga
matches are played without fans and teams in adherence to strict health
guidelines that regulate the process and operation of training sessions and
games.
The league,
with five rounds of matches left in the season, plans to finish by the end of
the month.
Sancho also
hit the headlines last weekend when he, after scoring, revealed an undershirt
with the message ‘Justice for George Floyd’.
George was an
unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis after a white U.S. police officer
knelt on his neck.
Sancho
escaped any sanction after the German Football Association said players were
free to show their support for protests over Floyd’s death.
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