of a player missing a bundesliga game because of coronavirus was when veteran werder bremen striker claudio pizarro was quarantined following a positive test for his daughter as he later told the local weser kurier newspaper he was not found to have the virusinjuries aboundthe restart was accompanied by a rash of minor injuries mostly strains of players soft tissue that left borussia dortmund fielding a lessthanideal starting lineup in its titledeciding 10 loss to bayern when jadon sancho and emre can were only fit enough to come off the bench as substitutesbundesliga players spent less time training at home than their counterparts in england or spain because of germanys quick move to socially distanced training in groupssome used the break to shake off injuries and return fully fit top scorer robert lewandowski his bayern teammate kingsley coman and leipzig midfielder kevin kampl all made an impact after returning to fitness in the springobedient fansgerman police like those in england and elsewhere feared fans would gather around stadiums and spread the coronaviruswhen dortmund hosted local rival schalke on the first day back on may 16 a few curious locals in club colors wandered by but soon left a group of about 10 polish warehouse workers constituted the largest crowd as they posed for photos in front of a club logo and played keepups with a ballthere was no repeat from the bundesligas brief experiment with emptystadium games before the shutdown when hundreds of borussia monchengladbach supporters chanted outside their teams stadium during a win over cologneinstead german fans have mostly followed the rules and watched at home as shown by record audiences for broadcaster sky on the first weekend back bayerns title win also didnt prompt the kind of street partying seen in england after liverpools longawaited championshiptv rights fallgermany found itself leading the way commercially too it was the first big european league trying to limit the financial damage to its tv deals during the pandemicnearly two decades of soaring tv rights values ground to a halt with the new domestic broadcast packages signed monday worth 44 billion euros 5 billion over four seasons from 202125 thats about 60 million euros 677 million less per season than the current agreementbayern ceo karlheinz rummenigge said other leagues will soon feel the pain if you look at the problems that are still unresolved with the tv broadcasters in for example england italy or spain then we can still be very satisfied here in germany rummenigge said tuesday in a video on the clubs linkedin pageitalys serie a expects to launch a tv rights tender in september for the period 202124 the english premier league and spanish league are both heading into talks on new domestic tv rights cycles from 2022dividing a smaller tvrights deal between the same number of teams is causing tension in germany many smaller clubs want a more even split and fewer advantages for teams who finish high up the table