Daniel Siebert, the referee in Inter’s recent Europa League round of 32 triumph over Ludogorets, has spoken on how it felt to referee a match which was played behind closed doors.
Due to the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic in Italy, the decision was taken for the match to be played behind closed doors, something Siebert admits felt very odd to be part of.
“There was a strange atmosphere in Milan. During the game all the shots of the players could be heard,” he told the media after having refereed FC St Pauli’s 3-1 2. Bundesliga win over VFL Osnabruck, as quoted by Passione Inter.
Ludogorets took extreme caution during their time in Milan and arrived at the airport wearing masks and also arrived at the stadium too with masks covering their faces.
Upon their return to Razgrad, Bulgaria, every member of the party that travelled to Milan for the match were examined for symptoms.
Siebert then went on to admit that upon his return to Germany he did consider being tested for the virus but decided against it in the end: “As a precaution, I wanted to take the tests at the Berlin Olympic base but since I had no symptoms, I didn’t.”
