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Socially-distanced buses and elbow bumps: German football's new world

Bayern Munich forward Thomas Mueller pictured leaving a training session ahead of the Bundesliga's return this weekend [COURTESY]

Players arriving in several sparsely-populated team buses, substitutes wearing masks and goal celebrations limited to elbow bumps -- when German football returns to the pitch this weekend, it will have to follow a draconian set of guidelines.

The German Football League (DFL) presented political leaders with a 51-page document of guidelines to earn the right for the Bundesliga to become the first of Europe's big five leagues to resume action.

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