Energie Cottbus’ players will refund the entrance fee of their 600 fans who made the trip to Gelsenkirchen to watch their team lose 4-0 at Schalke 04, the Bundesliga club said last week.
“By refunding the cost of admission for their supporters, the red and whites would like to apologize for the pitiful performance which they displayed at the Veltins Arena,” explained the club in a press release entitled “Sorry.”
Roughly 600 fans traveled from Cottbus, in east Germany near the Polish border, on Friday night to Gelsenkirchen — a journey of some 610km — to see their team suffer their sixth defeat in their last seven league games.
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Cottbus are second from bottom of the Bundesliga table and are in danger of being relegated at the end of the season.
“We lost at Schalke, but we were very timid against our opponents,” said Cottbus manager Steffen Heidrich.(AFP)
德國甲級足球聯賽隊伍科特布斯隊上週表示，該隊以零比四輸給沙爾克04隊，球員將退票給當天到當天到蓋爾森基興看球賽的六百位球迷。
該球隊在一份標題為「抱歉」的新聞稿中解釋：「紅白代表色的科特布斯隊想藉由退入場費給支持球迷，為在菲爾廷斯球場的差勁表現道歉。」
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科特布斯目前是德國甲級聯賽中排名倒數第二的球隊，球季結束時恐有被降級的危險。
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